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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: I want them to respond. Have things improved?

Seanad: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: I now call Senator Aidan Davitt, who has eight minutes.

Seanad: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: Unfortunately, that is the order of the House. The Senator will have to speak quickly.

Seanad: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: Senator O'Reilly has only one minute left.

Seanad: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: I call Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh. He has eight minutes.

Seanad: Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: I was here many years ago, when former Deputy Mary Harney was Minister for Health. We talked about the 2008 hospital consultant issues. At the time I asked who had the power to take on the consultants. Somebody always asked me what the difference between a consultant and God was and the answer was that God does not think he is a consultant. Consultants are powerful and make the difference...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: I apologise for having missed the submission. I had an important role as we need a certain number of people on quorum duty for the Seanad to start. When witnesses see Deputies and Senators leaving, it is not a snub. I am delighted the witnesses can appear before us today. We are talking about oversight and inspection capabilities with regard to aviation security. I was interested to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Irish Aviation Authority (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: I thank Mr. Gavin for clarifying that.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Disablement Benefit (21 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: I wish to raise the need for the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the number of former miners who worked in Arigna and in other mines who have availed of disablement benefit due to work-related illness; and whether there are enough resources currently available to expedite existing applications from former miners seeking disablement benefit. I am glad the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Disablement Benefit (21 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister for her reply. She will be aware that this was a difficult situation. Compensation was an issue and we were able to get around it. Since 2010, this issue has brought all the coal miners from around the country together. It provided a huge lesson and has been a major eye-opener. Unfortunately, many of the miners have died . The 123 former Arigna coal miners and...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: I was very surprised last weekend at the tone of the editorial of the UK edition of The Sun, which talked about Ireland's "naive young prime minister" and advised him, "shut your gob and grow up." This is offensive and very damaging to UK-Ireland relations. The Taoiseach has every right to speak on behalf of Irish citizens, and on behalf of UK citizens in Northern Ireland.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: Absolutely. As I have said before, the UK has shot itself in our foot and we must work extremely hard to ensure comments like this are not tolerated. I have heard from people in the UK that people in the Republic of Ireland will have no choice but to follow the UK out of the EU. I remind them that we are committed members of the EU. There has to be parity of esteem between Ireland and the...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: Like Senator Richmond, I share the disappointment regarding the failure of Ireland to secure the rugby world cup. Although I do not come from a rugby background, I want to put on record that our Celtic cousins in Scotland and Wales, the people who play with us on the British and Irish Lions, let us down. This was a unique opportunity for the island of Ireland, North and South, to have a...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: I, too, was disappointed with the result last night, but we have had some great times and next year it will be 30 years undefeated by England. We should note that fact. The call for an all-Ireland soccer team is interesting. In 1880 when the Irish Football Association, IFA, was set up, it covered all of Ireland. In 1921 the Football Association of Ireland, FAI, was set up following the...

Seanad: JobPath: Motion (15 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: It is very encouraging that we are not losing sight of what has happened in the past seven years. Unemployment, at 6%, is now at its lowest rate in seven years and every region is expecting a boost in the number of people back at work. We see it in Dublin where traffic has increased and hopefully in rural towns as well. I have noticed an increase but we need to do a little more.Some...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: Following on from Senator Ned O'Sullivan's remarks regarding the stalemate in Northern Ireland, I suggest we have to look at these things from a positive point of view. We are in a much better place in the last 20 years because of the Good Friday Agreement, the Anglo-Irish Agreement and the Downing Street Declaration. I was privileged and honoured to have been in Enniskillen last Sunday...

Seanad: The Diaspora: Statements (14 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: I wish to take the opportunity to commend our Minister of State with responsibility for diaspora matters, Deputy Ciarán Cannon. He is doing great work in this area. It follows from the great work of the former Ministers of State, Jimmy Deenihan and Deputy Joe McHugh. Each had a unique style. Jimmy Deenihan has five All-Ireland medals. Anywhere he went in the world, it was currency....

Seanad: The Diaspora: Statements (14 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: Sorry, it is Denmark. I am going to the match, so I hope I am going to the right one.

Seanad: The Diaspora: Statements (14 Nov 2017)

Frank Feighan: Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon of football now. I remember in the early 1980s when football was not that important. I remember at one stage in Lansdowne Road there were approximately 15,000 or 17,000 at the match. I had to meet a group from London. This brought home to me that most of the group were second-generation Irish. At least 3,000 came by boat from Birmingham, Manchester,...