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Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I want to say that clearly and unequivocally. The Minister for Health and Children said the reason the new maternity hospital in Cork had not opened was because of money. She also said that it was a disgrace. If that were the case, of course, it would be. I know people who are going to work in that hospital and it was not about money.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It was about the fact that those nurses were genuinely concerned that the hospital could not be run safely with the proposed numbers. Like every other parent in Cork, I have seen the quality of the city's maternity services, including midwifery and nursing care. The suggestion that those people are being greedy is a gross insult to them. It is even more offensive to the people of Cork,...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 71: In page 44, subsection (3)(n), line 15, after "facilities" to insert the following: "or courier facilities or other means of transportation". I will not argue with the Minister on this one. I proposed this amendment to ensure that forms of delivery other than the traditional forms of delivery are identified in the definitions. However, the Minister has tabled an...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It would be nicer for my vanity if the Minister were to accept my amendment.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It is a wonderful piece of drafting.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I am a little puzzled. I was curious when I saw that section 64(10) states that "a statement or admission made by a person pursuant to a requirement under subsection (3)(e) shall not be admissible". When I consulted section 64(3)(e), I found that it states that an authorised officer may "require any person at the premises or the owner or person in charge of the premises and any person...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Okay.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Having read section 66(1) a few times, I am not sure whether there is a drafting error. Perhaps my brain is too slow to understand what is intended. I refer to the part of the section that begins: In any proceedings for an offence under this Act, a certificate in the form specified in Schedule 3 to this Act signed by— (a) either— (i) the State Chemist, or (ii) another chemist employed...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: That is right.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: All right.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: That is what the Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel is for. The officials behind the Minister are wonderful, but the draftsman always says that these things are implied.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: This section outlines the penalties for all the offences under this legislation. It provides that they will all be subject to the same spectrum of penalties. Are we sure that all the offences that could be committed under this Bill are of equivalent gravity, or has this section been drafted in this way as a convenient catch-all device? I do not want to delay the House, although we are...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I would have to have more time.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I will not get into such a discussion at this hour of the evening.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I must say that I am sorry to see the end of "Poths Hall", which was part of our student days. We were never quite sure what "Poths Hall" was, but we knew it was there somewhere. It entertained us enormously, although we were never quite sure what it did. I suppose, therefore, there is a certain feeling of nostalgia about it.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 85: In page 48, line 35, to delete subsection (2). The lawyer from whom I take advice on these matters is a man of delicate sensitivities. He suggests subsection (2) is unnecessary because repeals are announced in section 4 and further stated in Schedule 4.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I am not trying to be awkward but to be helpful. This deals with an amendment to the Poisons Act. Subsection (1), in referring to section 18 of that Act, reads: A person who . . . keeps open shop for the sale of poisons commits an offence. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to the keeping of open shop by a person of a class specified in regulations under section 14 who is keeping...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Subsection (1) reads, "A code of conduct having effect under sections. . . and regulations made under section . . . shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas . . .". That is a great idea and I have no problem with it. Subsection (2) reads, "If a resolution annulling these regulations . . . ". Codes of conduct are not regulations; they are codes of conduct approved by the Minister....

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: That is fine.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 87: In page 51, paragraph 2, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: "(2) A disqualification pursuant to an order of a court referred to in subparagraph (1)(a), (c), (d), (e) or (f) shall not take effect until the ordinary time for appealing against any such order has expired, or if an appeal is lodged within that time, until any such appeal, or a further appeal...