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Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Liz McManus: In the past few days a major survey was published on the concerns of patients, which many people found disturbing. We were promised that when the Health Service Executive was established a parallel organisation called the health information and quality authority, HIQA, would be established for patients. That promise has not been delivered on. The body has not been established under statute....

Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Liz McManus: How can it be in the House before Christmas?

Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (15 Dec 2005)

Liz McManus: The Irish Medicines Board is an important and powerful body within the health service and will increasingly become so as medicines become more available, effective and inevitably more expensive. The issue of patient safety is obviously central to the debate and to any changes we are making in the law. It is worth noting the level of consumption of medications in Ireland is not inordinately...

Written Answers — Vetting Procedures: Vetting Procedures (15 Dec 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the categories of persons working in schools which are included under the Garda vetting programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39657/05]

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (15 Dec 2005)

Liz McManus: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the number of personnel working in the home, school and community liaison scheme will be increased in the context of the DEIS proposals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39663/05]

Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Liz McManus: On a point of order——

Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Liz McManus: Given that six different items have been bunched together, it has been impossible for me to raise an important matter in regard to No. 16.

Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Liz McManus: It impedes the work of this House if one cannot raise items on the Order of Business which are of relevance.

Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Liz McManus: I ask the Ceann Comhairle to consider the problem I am raising with him.

Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Liz McManus: I do not expect the Ceann Comhairle to give me an answer to it now.

Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Liz McManus: That answer does not deal with the issue I raised.

Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Liz McManus: The Chair's answer did not deal with the point of order I raised. This is not about there being a problem with Standing Orders but about there being a problem with a convention building up whereby omnibus motions are taken together which deal with a range of issues, and that impedes our work.

Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Liz McManus: Surely the Ceann Comhairle's role is to assist us——

Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Liz McManus: ——in the work we are entrusted by the people to carry out in this House. By having omnibus motions such as this, we are blocked from raising issues which are of public interest. I ask the Ceann Comhairle to ensure that such omnibus motions are not put forward which prevent us from raising points on an area such as health which is important to many of our people.

Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Liz McManus: Implicit in this is that there would be——

Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Liz McManus: ——common ground between the various items to be taken under an omnibus motion but that is not the case here. Six different items are being taken together. The debate is being stifled because of a procedural approach which is new. This was not the case in the past. I ask the Ceann Comhairle to assist Members of the House in the work we do and not to block debate.

Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Liz McManus: We hear that in every session. We were promised it would be introduced in the autumn.

Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Liz McManus: We were then told that it would be in by Christmas.

Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Liz McManus: Is this a diplomatic assurance?

Written Answers — Energy Policy: Energy Policy (25 Jan 2006)

Liz McManus: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the Government's position on proposed moves to secure an EU-wide energy policy as indicated in recent comments by EU Energy Commissioner, Mr. Andris Piebalgs; if the Government favours such a development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2108/06]