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Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: I move amendment No. 4: In page 16, line 43, after "including" to insert the following: "the advances, limitations and risks of current medical knowledge and practice". I raised this matter on Committee Stage on the basis the Medical Council has a public education role which should be specified in the legislation. While I appreciate the Minister made the point that this was sweeping, I...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: I regret this as an opportunity lost. One of the difficulties experienced was that the Medical Council is seen as a distant august body which perpetuates the idea that doctors are somehow superhuman and not like the rest of us. I though the Medical Council reaching out to the public would have been a good part of its brief.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: I will withdraw my amendment.

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: I move amendment No. 7: In page 18, to delete lines 24 to 32. While I welcome that the issue of professional conduct and ethics is excluded from the "general policy directions" in the section, there is a contradiction. On the one hand, the Minister could give general direction on policy to the Medical Council, but the council need not abide by the direction on the other. If it did not...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: Section 9(2) could create a conflict in that nothing "in directions given under subsection (1) is to be construed to prevent the Council from, or to limit the Council in, performing its functions". On patient representatives, I remind the Minister that when Professor Niamh Brennan examined the issue of reform of the health service and sought people to represent the public interest, thereby...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: I move amendment No. 8: In page 19, lines 4 and 5, to delete "and in accordance with the request". This amendment relates to control, as the Bill over-eggs the pudding. Throughout the Bill, the ministerial control of the council is not healthy or necessary. The Minister can make an order or a request and the council can make rules for the purpose of better operation "in accordance with the...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (28 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: Were they looking for something from the Minister?

Written Answers — Postal Services: Postal Services (27 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will issue a directive to ComReg to ensure that the postal universal service obligation is upheld and that the next day delivery rate target of 94% is met; if he has received information from ComReg or An Post regarding the conflicting accounts of the actual next day delivery rates; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Post Office Network: Post Office Network (27 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has had recent contacts with the Irish Postmasters Union; if he will address the threat to the maintenance of a competitive and nationwide postal network; if he will bring forward a national postal strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11347/07]

Written Answers — Arts Funding: Arts Funding (27 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 443: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the reason a company (details supplied) which represents a voiceless minority has not been given funding for 2007 in view of the successful work carried out by the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11632/07]

Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: She is speaking on secondary legislation.

Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: I have a question on secondary legislation. The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board has been established but there is no statutory instrument laid before the House as far as I can find out. It is certainly not in the Oireachtas Library. What is the intention regarding this statutory instrument?

Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: This is secondary——

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: The Minister is taking advantage of her position most unfairly. The Minister knows I was complaining about Second Stage rather than Committee Stage.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: The Minister's press officers were spreading dishonest statements about me which she knows were untrue. Let us have the grace to accept that.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: They were being dishonest. I accept the Minister was not doing it.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: I thought the Minister said——

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: The Minister apologised to me this morning.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: The Minister knows what happened.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Liz McManus: It was not even on the paper. The Minister knows exactly what happened. There was no such amendment on the paper and the Minister's press office did not even bother to check. The Progressive Democrats spun stories that were simply untrue.