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Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (31 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: It is absolutely relevant.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (31 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Having the new radiotherapy unit in Galway is certainly a help, but the difficulty is that Galway is further from the top of Donegal than Dublin.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (31 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: The difficulty is that surgeons have stopped working. I appeal to the Government to intervene for the people of north-west Donegal.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (31 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I have raised this issue at the Joint Committee on Health and Children, as the Minister of State knows, for many years. It disappoints me greatly that no progress has been made. The case for the north west having its own radiotherapy unit is much stronger than the case for the south east having such a unit, although the latter also has a strong case. That is the reality. There are major...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (31 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: There are two minutes left. It is 6.58 p.m.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (31 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I will do so but I am very disappointed with what is happening in Donegal. I hope the Government will take action to ensure that those people are given access to a service that will provide them with a proper chance at life. Under the Constitution, we are all supposed to be equal.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (31 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: People are not getting BreastCheck services in the west. Hundreds of people will have to die in the meantime because of the lack of such services.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (31 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: This will happen in Donegal because of the lack of a radiotherapy unit in the north west. People are suffering and they deserve better.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (31 May 2006)

Jerry Cowley: This Bill is more of the same. The entire planning process is rotten to the core. Where is the community representation with regard to An Bord Pleanála? It is not there. People do not matter any more because this is a country of big business. That is the current situation.

Order of Business (Resumed). (1 Jun 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Yesterday the Independent Deputies issued a statement asking for legislation to be enacted within 48 hours. That was because they did not want children to be in the terrible danger which they are in at present. They wanted them to be safe this weekend. While I welcome the sitting tomorrow, the difficulty is that legislation is enacted into law by the signature of the President. Has the...

Order of Business (Resumed). (1 Jun 2006)

Jerry Cowley: ——can the Tánaiste indicate that there will be an audit involving the Government, the DPP and the Attorney General because in the press other Acts were flagged, even today and yesterday, which could well be subject to challenge and would give sexual predators a loophole?

Order of Business (Resumed). (1 Jun 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Would the Tánaiste agree the terrible state of the health services is caught up in this matter, in that this girl would have to wait two years for a psychological assessment? In Mayo, people must wait two years for a child psychiatrist, which is a disgrace. Would the Tánaiste please address those matters?

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2006)

Jerry Cowley: How much time I have left?

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Further to the discussion that has already ensued, I was amazed to hear people stand up in this Chamber and try to make excuses for the lack of infrastructure in this country, particularly in north-west Donegal where people who are ill must travel repeatedly by bus to Dublin for radiotherapy services, an essential third part of the treatment necessary to give them the best possible chance of...

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2006)

Jerry Cowley: The Deputy's ten minutes have elapsed.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I call Deputy Boyle.

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Is the Deputy sharing time?

Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I understand Deputies Connolly and Ó Caoláin will also speak.

Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak further on this Bill. There is a major problem with the subvention system. While the Bill addresses the situation regarding subvention for nursing homes, that is only part of the equation. One cannot discuss this Bill without talking more generally about what is happening to older people in this country. We must ask whom the system is serving. When...