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Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: The Government will deal in an efficient and effective manner with its liability and responsibility with a heart and a half rather than half-heartedly.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (9 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: We do not need Fine Gael Deputies and Senators around the country engaged in a sordid campaign of exploitation. The Government will honour its commitment. The same Deputies who are complaining seem to be those who are promoting all the good the Government has done in the constituencies in the form of a guide to people's entitlements for 2005. However, these people complain about what has been...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: Is the Senator not holding seminars like every other member of his party?

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The report has been exceptionally well prepared and we owe Mr. John Travers a debt of gratitude. He has put the whole issue together clearly. I have read the report in detail and it is a pointless exercise to go back over every detail in it because people can read it for themselves. This issue goes back a long time and all the former Ministers and...

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: Do I not have eight minutes?

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: I am sorry.

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: That is fair enough. There is a case to be made on recompensing people. The Minister of State is an eminent senior counsel. The issue of a statute bar must be examined to see how far we can go back in order to recompense those involved. I take exception to the exploitation of this issue by particular politicians who are doing so for their own political benefit, not for the benefit of the...

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: I urge the law firms to lay off in this regard. They should be legal eagles, not legal vultures as far as the elderly are concerned.

Seanad: Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: I have tabled a motion on the Adjournment regarding the situation of a constituent in County Roscommon who is the holder of a full medical card. She was referred by her general practitioner to Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe for a DEXA bone scan on 14 January 2005. The hospital was purchased by the Western Health Board with the approval of the Department of Health and Children in autumn...

Seanad: Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: I thank the Minister for a comprehensive report gathered at very short notice. This patient was a public patient. She was the holder of a medical card who went to her own general practitioner. She had no knowledge that she was being referred for a private consultation. She was quite happy to go to the UCHG or some other public hospital that would provide this particular scan. In the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2005 [Certified Money Bill]: Second Stage. (22 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Parlon, to the House to debate the Finance Bill 2005. I commend the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, for introducing this ground-breaking Bill. The Finance Bill gives effect to various changes announced in the budget, as well as introducing new measures. Among those previously announced are provisions which have the effect of taking minimum wage...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2005 [Certified Money Bill]: Second Stage. (22 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: What is the position with SSIAs?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2005 [Certified Money Bill]: Second Stage. (22 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: Tomorrow.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects. (22 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: I am delighted that the Minister for Agriculture and Food is here as she has a great interest in and knowledge of the region in question. I seek to ascertain when the major development at Elphin community college will be approved to go to tender. Elphin has a proud record of second level education for many years. Its first school, the Bishop Hudson Grammar School, opened in 1869. Up to the...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects. (22 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: I am grateful for the Minister's reply. I am disappointed this project is not making the progress it deserves in a rural area where we need education. This school is the lifeblood of the town of Elphin. Elphin community college must be given the priority it deserves and I appeal to the Government to progress the matter.

Seanad: Road Traffic Offences. (22 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: Mea culpa.

Seanad: Business of Seanad. (23 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: Tomorrow.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: People do not have to go that fast.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: I hereby request the Leader, Senator O'Rourke, to arrange for an emergency debate on the crisis in the accident and emergency department in Roscommon County Hospital, where 13 patients were on trolleys on 21 March. Having allocated €8 million to the new accident and emergency department in Roscommon, which was officially opened by the Taoiseach on 4 February, nine of the——

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2005)

Terry Leyden: Nine of the beds are left idle and 40 staff were approved but not appointed. The Health Service Executive——