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Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Lest my silence might be interpreted as disagreeing with my colleagues, I repeat that I have no inherent objection to requiring older people who are in long-term care or in nursing homes to make a contribution. My problem has always been with means tests. Means tests are either so severe that they exclude vast numbers of people or, if they are limited to determining those who can afford to...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Is that on the assumption that such people will have been obliged to sell their homes by then?

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 17, to delete lines 13 to 19 of the text inserted by Government amendment No. 25 at Committee and substitute the following: "(2) The Health Service Executive shall publish all information supplied to it under subsection 1(a) and may for statistical purposes retain and process information given to it under subsection (1) provided that information supplied under...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I agree a large overlap exists. I am glad the Government tabled its amendment. It would have been an unfortunate omission to leave the Bill as it was. While I do not wish to blow my own trumpet this is the third time in less than two years I had to point out errors in legislation. The National Economic and Social Development Office Bill had a section prohibiting Members of the Oireachtas...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister of State should stop or I will begin to blush. I am not used to this.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I appreciate that and I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Will the Minister of State accept my amendment?

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I had a funny feeling there would be a sting in the tail.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I have learned the hard way to be wary of any Government explaining that it does not want to make public disclosures because they may become too cumbersome. In my experience of a variety of Governments in the past 25 years all disclosure is deemed too cumbersome so their instinct is to disclose as little as possible. It is a pity the Minister of State did not say explicitly which data must...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I have held him in high regard for some time. He has also been helpful to my family on a few occasions.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I thank the Minister of State for the spirit in which he dealt with our little complaints. I appreciate his good humour and willingness to respond. Like my colleagues, I do not regard the Bill as a momentous event. We have not yet started to embrace the gradual change to an ageing society, which is not as dramatic as scaremongers would have us believe. There is a resistance to the idea of...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: We will be on different sides. Senator Glynn will be on this side and I will be on that side.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: There was a long period when that was not the case.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Yesterday in Dublin, there was a meeting of representatives of people working in the health services other than doctors and nurses, namely, support staff, clerical staff, etc. Their simple demand was for the people who are paid to manage the health services to do so. Their complaint, which was articulated in a dozen ways, focused on one issue, that is, no one will take a decision or...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The Government is hiding behind the HSE.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: There would be no fear of the Senator——

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Seans go bhfuil tagairt nó dhó dár dteanga dúchais i measc na reachtaíochta atá le scriosadh. Táim ag smaoineamh ar thosú an fheachtais chun deighilt a chur i bhfeidhm idir — mar a deir an tseanreachtaíocht — "the Irish enemies and the English". Is mar sin a luaitear iad, agus b'fhéidir gur cheart dom labhairt as Gaoluinn beagáinín. Tá rudaí ann, go mórmhór sa...

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: In the list of statutes I found numerous references to drink through titles concerning either beerhouses, spirits, drunkards or inebriates. I yet have to meet a lawyer who can tell me the difference between a drunk and an inebriate.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Among the team of very brilliant people who drafted this legislation is a good friend and occasional adviser of mine. I hope he will explain to me the difference between a drunk and an inebriate. I suppose it is the difference between depression and elation. It is time we dispensed with so much of the offensive language contained in legislation such as "lunatics", "imbeciles" and so forth....

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2007: Second Stage (7 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Another statute dealt with the abandonment of railways. It makes one wonder how much the world really changes. I was fascinated by the Tithing of Turnips Act 1835. I accept the Minister of State may not be able to cast some light on this, unless he has been doing a wonderful amount of reading. Why is legislation dealing with the tithing of turnips which have been severed from the ground...