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Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: That is provided for under other legislation?

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I would like to think they could not.

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I do not see, in the new section 95, where it is stated that a licensee must surrender a licence. It states that a person may surrender it and that the EPA may refuse to take it.

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: Anything that reduces legal costs is very worthy.

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I move amendment No. 38: In page 62, lines 20 and 21, to delete "or was not being complied with in any respect". I did not table this amendment because I favour any disrespect for the licences people may hold, but because it is a serious issue for a company to be cited in the Environmental Protection Agency book as not having complied with its licence. Should we try to make more of an effort...

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: No, particularly as it would not be accepted. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Section 21 agreed to. SECTION 22.

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I move amendment No. 40: In page 64, line 44, after "before" to insert "after". This section is a very good one. I always like legislation that contains words like "the second activity (irrespective of whether it would otherwise be so regarded) shall be regarded as an activity falling within section 39(1)" and it can then become the first activity. It is very useful because people may have...

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: That seems to be what I want.

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: The applicant is in a position to get the EPA's advice beforehand.

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I am sorry, I misread the section.

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: Senator Burke spoke very sensibly. The real problem is to try to get people involved in recycling. The Minster is right when he talks about the difference in incineration 20 years ago and today. People are always asking me to appeal on health grounds with a view to preventing incinerators being built but that is becoming impossible with modern incinerators. The real problem is that with...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: Legislation to establish a children's ombudsman was passed during the lifetime of the previous Government. Members on the Independent benches thought this would happen rapidly. I contacted the Department of Health and Children querying the reason this had not been done and was told it was a matter for the President to appoint the ombudsman. I doubt the delay is due to tardiness on the part of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: That is what the Department wrote.

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2003: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: This matter can be discussed on Committee Stage.

Seanad: Convention on the Future of Europe: Statements. (26 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: A couple of years ago I was the Irish representative on a panel of EU judges of a competition for school children to devise a motto for Europe. The motto they devised was "Unity in Diversity". It was interesting that many of the children wrote about the strength there is in diversity. With this Convention, will European citizens be too easy to control when there is so much conformity? Is...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I welcome the Minister and the Bill. He must be fed up with the phrase "risk equalisation" because it has been around his neck ever since he took up office in the Department. I hope that when the Bill passes speedily through the Houses, the risk equalisation regulatory framework is brought forward rapidly because it is very important. The Bill is important, not just to the nearly 50% of the...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I strongly recommend that people take up plan A or B because one pays a great deal of money for the hotel accommodation further on. A large amount of what people need is covered by the more minor plans which I hope people will take into account. It was extraordinary that children were insured under plans D and E when there was no private accommodation for them. People are being a bit...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: It is in the last two years of a person's life that most money is spent on medical care. Senator Feighan mentioned American companies. In the brief time I worked in America I witnessed the most appalling scenes with people being thrown out of schemes just when they needed them the most and private hospitals closing down, even though people had made huge subscriptions to them throughout their...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I support Senator Norris's request to the Leader for another debate on Iraq due to the constantly changing situation. Representatives of a total of 114 non-aligned states met in Kuala Lumpur the other day. Senators will have noticed the alarming statement that came out of the meeting to the effect that an attack on Iraq would be viewed as an attack on Islam.

Seanad: Suicide Incidence: Statements. (27 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I will not delay the House by repeating points with which other speakers have dealt. We must deal seriously with the problem of delay in patients being seen in the psychiatric services. I was alarmed to hear recently from a member of a schizophrenia association that there was a delay of about 18 months from the onset of symptoms of serious psychiatric disease until the patient received...