Results 241-260 of 1,094 for speaker:Camillus Glynn

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Camillus Glynn: The recent budget brought home very forcefully to us all the situation in which we find ourselves. While I did not hear the interview with Peter Sutherland this morning, I have been told about it and I believe it was very positive. However, something brought to my attention annoys me. We have all taken pain to a greater or lesser extent. I have been made aware that some companies are...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Apr 2009)

Camillus Glynn: The Senator should take her own advice.

Seanad: Bowel Cancer Awareness: Statements (7 Apr 2009)

Camillus Glynn: General practitioners have a pivotal role to play in this area, and a number of them are doing that. On the lack of attention Members of my gender pay to their own health, it is important that GPs encourage their patients of a certain age, say those over 40 or 45, to have a colonoscopy in view of the fact that, as was pointed out by a number of speakers, most people are unaware of at least...

Seanad: Hospital Services (7 Apr 2009)

Camillus Glynn: The Leas-Chathaoirleach will recall that I made these points on the Order of Business on at least two occasions. I lobbied hard to get a dermatology service for Mullingar and I succeeded in doing so. It is true that the resources available to the person appointed were insufficient. The reason given was insufficient financial resources, yet when the person in question left, resources...

Seanad: Hospital Services (7 Apr 2009)

Camillus Glynn: I am not greedy; it is just that I like a lot.

Seanad: Bowel Cancer Awareness: Statements (7 Apr 2009)

Camillus Glynn: I proposed to share time with Senator Keaveney.

Seanad: Bowel Cancer Awareness: Statements (7 Apr 2009)

Camillus Glynn: I welcome this important and timely debate. I have had two members of my family die from cancer. One brother died from pulmonary cancer and the other from cancer of the oesophagus. I understand and appreciate the grave nature of the debate. In the past 24 hours a young man I knew since I moved to Mullingar has been diagnosed with bowel cancer. The cold fingers of cancer have touched the...

Seanad: Bowel Cancer Awareness: Statements (7 Apr 2009)

Camillus Glynn: When they do go, it is following encouragement and prompting from the wife, partner, girlfriend, sister or aunt but they are not proactive in looking after their health. The basis of this debate is being proactive in dealing with cancer. Bowel cancer is treatable if identified in time. The ignorance of people of the symptoms associated with the existence of bowel cancer is a worry. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Apr 2009)

Camillus Glynn: I join colleagues who wished the Minister for Finance, Deputy Lenihan, every success in a difficult task. I say to Senator Regan that if anyone has indulged in auction politics in the recent past it is his party.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Apr 2009)

Camillus Glynn: That obtained at the Ard-Fheis. I hope Fine Gael can stand over the promises it made.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Apr 2009)

Camillus Glynn: I ask the Leader to invite to the House in the near future the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Moloney, who has taken great interest in psychiatric illness and services. I support what Senator Prendergast said. I worked in the psychiatric area for many years and we need to examine psychiatric services. For many years it was the Cinderella service. Many...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Camillus Glynn: At a time when there is much pressure on the public finances and on the finances of local authorities, in the latter regard it is true to say that there will be great pressure on the provision of social housing in view of the fact that many people will not be able to provide their own homes. However, there is strong evidence, not merely currently but over a long period of years, to suggest...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2009)

Camillus Glynn: In the recent past many colleagues have called for debate on the HSE. I re-echo that call for particular reasons, not least the impending proposal of the HSE to remove a specialist dermatology service from the hospital in Mullingar. A dermatologist was recruited for the hospital but she was provided with only scant resources. Now she has left and two new dermatologists are to be recruited,...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Dáil]: Second Stage (24 Mar 2009)

Camillus Glynn: Tomorrow at approximately 11.30 a.m. Committee Stage ordered for Wednesday, 25 March 2009.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Dáil]: Second Stage (24 Mar 2009)

Camillus Glynn: Ag 10.30 maidin amárach.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Dáil]: Second Stage (24 Mar 2009)

Camillus Glynn: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I welcome the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009 which amends the Local Elections (Disclosure of Donations and Expenditure) Act 1999 to provide for the introduction of limits on expenditure by candidates and political parties at local elections. These new limits will be put in place for the forthcoming local elections to be held on 5 June 2009. There are...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Dáil]: Second Stage (24 Mar 2009)

Camillus Glynn: The Senator was going places.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Mar 2009)

Camillus Glynn: I join those who stated that the proposed strike should not go ahead. As a long-standing member of a trade union, who served on a branch executive for many years and as an assistant honorary secretary for two years, I am very aware of the work of trade unions and their relevance. However, this is wrong. As a member of a party that commenced the concept of social partnership, we have no...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Mar 2009)

Camillus Glynn: I was very pleased, as, I am sure, was the Cathaoirleach, to see one of the midland hospitals, namely, the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, named as one of the top performing hospitals in the country. This is against a background of efforts by certain members within the HSE to transfer services from Mullingar to elsewhere. I would welcome an early visit by the Minister for Health and...

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (11 Mar 2009)

Camillus Glynn: I move: To delete all words after "Seanad Éireann" and substitute the following: "recognising the need for reform of Seanad Éireann, notes: the commitment in the programme for Government to determine the extent of cross-party agreement on the recommendations of the Report on Seanad Reform to advance proposals for implementation, that an all-party group of Members of both Houses of the...