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Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Whatever about the Defamation Bill enduring a de facto filibuster with Government complicity, no one could accuse the Government of delaying on the Pharmacy Bill. It is the fault of no one in this House or the building — I am not criticising any staff — that the final list of amendments in yellow form arrived in the House between 9 a.m. and 9.45 a.m. It was the first time Senators had a...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It is an institutional abuse. Will the Leader raise the matter with the Ceann Comhairle? The other House should be informed that it has no right to order business before this House has disposed of it. We do not do so as a matter of practice. This morning's Irish Examiner has as harrowing a front page as I have ever seen. It is a half-page reproduction of the last note of a young man who...

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: No.

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: That is confidence.

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I hope to persist in the positive and non-confrontational tone of my colleague. All of us now accept the reality of climate change. Let us not ignore the extraordinarily intense rearguard action, which still continues and which was manifested on Channel 4 a few weeks back, of pseudo-science by pseudo-scientists and a pseudo-director who has a reputation for enjoying the fact he says the...

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Probably. There is no doubt there are extraordinary vested interests in many areas. I am concerned that unless the Government — any Government — has an absolute conviction that this is a reality and that it will have an overwhelmingly negative impact on how we and the planet live over the next 50 years, there will not be the political will to do what is necessary. What I hope was one of...

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: If the Government deserves credit for anything, it is that it perhaps sustained the boom, but it did not create it because it was well under way, and that is a fact. However, because it was a boom and did not represent the things Governments in Ireland used to have to worry about, the Government stopped worrying. It did not look at the new issues and the new ideas, one of which, already...

Seanad: National Climate Change Strategy 2000: Motion (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Correct. Approximately 28% of our greenhouse gas emissions emanate from agriculture. If we are determined to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of the contributions of different sectors to both the economy and our greenhouse gas emissions, we must face up to and deal with the part played by agriculture. There is a sense that agriculture is benign and that it involves green fields, etc. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: There is a particular irony about the fact these senior people claim overtime while at the same time they attempt to force through contract changes for doctors and nurses whereby they will work seven days per week, 24 hours per day rotas for a given salary and without any overtime. These changes are referred to as new work practices which are supposed to be the fashion. While the people at...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Which Government allowed below cost selling? I believe it was the current Government.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: They will never let her be a doctor now.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I am tempted to use my time to debate with the Minister about the relationship between economic growth and the underprovision of medical cards, but I will not. Perhaps I will have another opportunity to do so. It is one of the great failures of the Government but it is not for tonight's debate. As a member of one self-regulating profession married to a member of another self-regulating...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The argument made to me by the profession seems extraordinary in that a pharmacist qualifying in Britain can practise in Dundalk but a pharmacist qualifying in this State cannot practise in Newry. To put it crudely, it is not fair and is a barrier to trade. It means multinationals can operate here but nobody can set up an Irish multinational unless he or she employs pharmacists qualified in...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: That is extremely important. I refer, in particular, to Schedule 1 to the Bill. I have asked this question before but have never received an entirely satisfactory answer. Schedule 1 states "a person who discloses confidential information obtained as a result of involvement with the Society, shall be guilty of an offence". I have a problem with the definition of confidential information and...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Regarding the famous conflict of interest, it is not sufficient to say doctors cannot own pharmacies and pharmacists cannot own medical practices. Headline stories of €1 million in key money allowing a pharmacy to locate in a medical centre——

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Yes. People are talking about €1 million. That practice is profoundly unhealthy and should be prohibited. If it is allowed to occur outside large urban areas, such as in Mallow, Mitchelstown, my home town of Athy or Dingle, which has a single health centre, it would threaten the existence of other pharmacies and would be anti-competitive and unfair. People should have a choice. For...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: What has that to do with anything?

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Doctors are 70% more expensive. Their fees increased——-

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I am responding to the Minister.