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Seanad: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) Bill 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (11 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I am delighted with the first part of the amendment which states that the accounts for each financial year have to be brought forward not later than four months after the end of the financial year to which they relate. When I first came into this House accounts were so long coming forward that by the time they arrived they were historical documents. I am a little concerned, however, to see...

Seanad: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) Bill 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (11 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: "Oriented basic research" leaps from the page here again but the Minister will be pleased to know that I have been able to contact my advisers, who have told me to leave it in the section. Researchers are always trying to go off to do research and I gather it is better to include it than take it out. Question put and agreed to. Section 25 agreed to. SECTION 26. Government amendment No. 16: In...

Seanad: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) Bill 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (11 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I congratulate the Minister of State on getting the Bill through the House this afternoon. If he had not explained it so carefully we might have been here much longer. I congratulate him on the way he dealt with the Bill. It is wonderful that it is going through. The Tánaiste, the Minister of State and the Government are to be congratulated on ringfencing the money for this research and...

Seanad: Opticians (Amendment) Bill 2002: Second Stage. (11 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I wish to share time with Senator Quinn. I welcome the Minister to the House. I also welcome the majority of the Bill's provisions, including the updating of the terminology, fines and the deregulation of ready-readers. While the institute of opticians has naturally been in contact with Members, I have also had contact from the college of ophthamologists. The Minister recognised their...

Seanad: Opticians (Amendment) Bill 2002: Second Stage. (11 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: The drugs that optometrists want to prescribe are mainly local anaesthetics for the eye, as well as drugs that affect accommodation. The only reason for using drugs that affect accommodation is to examine the fundus of the eye. If one is examining the fundus of the eye, one is surely trying to diagnose the medical condition. Diabetes is one of the most important problems regarding disease of...

Seanad: Private Business. - The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Charters Amendment) Bill 2002: Second Stage. (12 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I welcome the Bill and hope it has a speedy passage. The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland has an illustrious past and its present and future are even brighter. The work I have seen undertaken in the college, not just in the field of medical education but also in research over the last 30 years, has been quite splendid and I see it going from strength to strength. While it wants to change...

Seanad: Unclaimed Life Assurance Policies Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (12 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I hope the Minister will accept this amendment. The most important thing Senator Quinn said was that the State will benefit if people do not see they are on one of these lists. We have to make absolutely sure it is available on the Internet because that is the means by which so many people seek information now. The Minister of State, Deputy Gallagher, really made the case for Senator Quinn...

Seanad: Unclaimed Life Assurance Policies Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (12 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: We have arrived at the real issue, namely, the contention that the audience in question is not computer literate and consists of old people, like myself, who will not look at the website. Has the Minister of State considered what happened in the context of the overseas accounts, bogus or otherwise? How often have we read in the newspaper about children, grandchildren or nieces and nephews...

Seanad: Unclaimed Life Assurance Policies Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (12 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: Will the names appear on the website in Iris Oifigiúil?

Seanad: Unclaimed Life Assurance Policies Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (12 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: Who will search Government websites? The Minister of State is wrong about the audience. It is precisely due to its nature that information must be published on a specific website.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Scrapie Genotyping Project. (18 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: It was the sad death, at such an early age, of Dolly, the first cloned sheep, that made me think of the issue of scrapie because I was very interested in the scheme set up by the Minister for Agriculture and Food last year. Scrapie is a fatal degenerative disease affecting the central nervous system of sheep and goats. It is one of the diseases classified as transmissable spongiform...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Scrapie Genotyping Project. (18 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Scrapie Genotyping Project. (18 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I thank the Minister of State. I am pleased the Department is making such progress in this area.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Second Stage. (19 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I also welcome the Minister and I warmly welcome the Bill, which is long overdue. It is difficult to understand why a previous Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform did not bring it forward at an earlier stage, particularly when one reads so much of the good sense in the 1978 Henchy report that was incorporated into the Bill. I am grateful to the Minister for doing so, because it has...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Second Stage. (19 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: Could a provision also be included in the Bill for a change to the relevant ministerial order? The most commonly used legislation under which prisoners are transferred is the Central Lunatic Asylum (Ireland) Act 1845. Four other pieces of legislation are used, the most recent of which dates from 1912. Perhaps we could add this matter to the Bill. Some of those affected by this procedure are...

Seanad: Cancer Screening Programme: Motion. (19 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I also welcome the Minister to the House. I am very glad he has been able to visit the Central Mental Hospital. I asked the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Tim O'Malley, to go there and the fact that the Minister also went is marvellous. I am quite sure he will have been as horrified as I was by the conditions there. To return to the subject in hand, I speak...

Seanad: Opticians (Amendment) Bill 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I move amendment No. 5: In page 9, paragraph (a), line 12, after "action" to insert ", including the prescription or administration of any drug for the purpose of paralysing the accommodation of the eye,". When we were discussing whether or not we should take all Stages of the Bill today, the Leader stated that she did not think any of the amendments were serious or ponderous. In my opinion,...

Seanad: Opticians (Amendment) Bill 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: They are to be added.

Seanad: Opticians (Amendment) Bill 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: This is the worry. Will the person who refers a person to a private contractor be liable? The legal liability cover of these people, as the Minister knows, is not very high. They are to take on a whole new area in which there could be a clinical claim.

Seanad: Opticians (Amendment) Bill 2002: Committee and Remaining Stages. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I would like to see that. Before Report Stage, would it be possible to find out the provisions of legal coverage? I have failed to find this out. This is important because we are now allowing for drugs where, for example, there may be a corneal tear. It is very easy to tear the cornea using a tonometer. It is always a problem and is one of the things that the defence unions will admit they...