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Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I am not trying to be troublesome; it is too late on a Thursday for that.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I thank the Cathaoirleach, although I am sure he would not allow me to be so, even if I wished. I am not trying to be smart, but amendment No. 23 effectively states that we should delete "website" and insert the same word. I am obviously missing something, but I cannot work out what. In my version of the Bill, line 52 contains the single word "website", with what looks to me like an...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It is exactly the same as what is there. That is what intrigued me.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: It was my pedantry. That is all.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: There is eternal optimism in Government circles that house price inflation will decline but there is no market evidence that it will do so. The sum of €365,000 will diminish relative to the value of a house within five years. This is a way to reduce the number of people who will have access to the services. The Minister of State will deny any such intent. There is no logical reason to...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I do not care if Dick Roche has decided to undertake the same measure. That confirms my view that it is illogical.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Yes, I apologise. That another Department has done it proves that it is a bureaucratic simplicity rather than a sensible measure. Something was needed in a hurry and people thought that prices in Dublin were higher. The Dublin region is where house prices are higher, not Dublin. Perhaps there is a plan to extend boundaries of Dublin to include north Kildare, north Wicklow, south Louth and...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Sell the house.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I would not.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I might not be a Member of this House.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I am tempted to oppose this but I will not.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I am well aware that some of what is contained in section 3 was introduced when my party was in Government because that is the usual defence, but I believe it to be the wrong way to go. We are showing a level of defensiveness that will create the equivalent of a moral panic over the population gradually and gently getting older. I invite someone to explain why this rigmarole must be...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: Why should the name and address of a commercial home care provider be regarded as confidential? I understand fully why the name and address of the service recipient should be confidential. Why should the public not know who the HSE contracts to provide home care services? How will we conduct checks on the probity, reliability and truthfulness of home care providers if we do not know who...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: The new subsection (2) will state: The Health Service Executive may, for statistical purposes, retain and process information given to it under subsection (1) provided that such information is not publicly disclosed except in the form of a summary so compiled as to prevent particulars relating to the identity of any home care provider, or of any person for whom any home care provider provides...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: This discussion should not take two minutes. All the Minister of State should do is remove the provision, particularly if it means nothing, and keep this cranky fellow here happy. No reason exists for a prohibition. Is this is a classic act of making something secret and seeing whether the public will find out about it? It should be dropped. What was intended was that the names of those...

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I apologise for holding up the House and I do not want to keep us here all day. The legislation states, "provided that such information is not publicly disclosed except in the form of a summary so compiled as to prevent particulars relating to the identity of any home care provider, or of any person for whom any home care provider provides home care services, being ascertained from it."....

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I was quite happy to agree to take Report Stage today, but the Minister of State was most unhelpful and I want time to introduce an amendment on Report Stage.

Seanad: Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: No.

Seanad: Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: TV3.

Seanad: Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Feb 2007)

Brendan Ryan: I apologise to the Minister if my remarks are slightly more disorganised than usual as I am standing in for my colleague, Senator O'Meara. I am a technophile and all these matters fascinate me. As an engineer, I have some belief that I can understand at least some of the technology. Ós rud é gur luadh a ainm, ba mhaith liom a rá, agus muid ag plé cúrsaí craolacháin, gur mhór an...