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Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: You might ask Senator Gilroy to control himself, although it is a difficult thing for him to do.

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: This is very important. The Bill relates to the structure of the HSE and its various directorates. The question of the vacant paediatric cystic fibrosis post for physiotherapy in Temple Street Children's University Hospital, which looks after 94 children, is crucial. This Bill formally provides that the HSE is officially and under law required to report to the Minister, and I am asking the...

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the Minister. I have listened to the debate - particularly the last two contributors - and watched the television monitor earlier. Some of us on this side of the House have a degree of sympathy for the Minister. I talked to my health spokesperson and colleague, Senator MacSharry, and he too has had occasion to cross swords with the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall. I wish the...

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Sinn Féin put many people into the health services.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: No, I will ask him about it when he is in the House to deal with the Bill today.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Guaranteed by us.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Guinness sponsored County Clare once. The Senator may need to speak to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan, about the cuts in Clare.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Permanent TSB is not a great example. Where is it now? Do we not own it?

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: To follow up on a couple of points from last week, has there been any progress in the issue of the vacancy in Temple Street Children's University Hospital? The paediatric physiotherapist post remains vacant and the hospital is awaiting sanction for the replacement of the post. I remind the House that approximately 94 children with cystic fibrosis are using those services in the hospital....

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: It is real opportunity for the Seanad. By simply passing this motion, it would show that all representatives in this House condemn this mortgage interest rate increase and understand that the vast majority of mortgage holders are doing their level best to pay their mortgages. On a ¤300,000 mortgage, more than ¤100 net per month will be extracted from these families which are struggling...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Ask the Minister whether he tried to renegotiate it.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Is the senior Minister at the Department of Health coming in to take that Bill?

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I request numerous debates, many of which are refused. In general I take the Leader's point. As the situation in Syria is very serious it is important that the House discusses it properly and puts forward its view. Yesterday, thousands of mortgage holders received a letter from the ICS Building Society and Bank of Ireland, dated 31 August. That letter informed them that Bank of Ireland and...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Senator will have a chance to do so next Tuesday.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Will the Minister for Health take the Bill?

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I will be here next Wednesday for the debate.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I am not going to comment on yesterday's debate on the Minister for Health in the Lower House. People would have found it interesting, to put it mildly, but what people are more concerned about is what is happening on the ground. Next week, the Minister for Health will attend this Chamber. We need a separate debate, however, on the health cuts happening on the ground every day of the week....

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Those who were listening to the Minister of State, Deputy Róisín Shortall, were not sure who the Minister for Health was.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: She did not even mention him.