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Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Does the Minister of State trust him?

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 6: In page 9, subsection (2), line 22, after "benefit" to insert "or assistance". When I tabled amendment No. 5, I thought I was simply being fussy, but I now realise I was actually raising a serious issue. It seems it is intended that the repayment to certain people of the money that was stolen from them by the State will affect them. I have proposed amendments Nos. 6...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Which part of them?

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Department of Social and Family Affairs should be informed that it is the Government's intention that all statutorily-based social assistance schemes are included within the term "benefit".

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 12: "In page 19, subsection (16)(a), line 17, after "relates," to insert "or if the applicant had died or become incapable of acting, means a person affected by the decision,". Section 16 concerns appeals against decisions and begins, "An aggrieved person may", before going through a appeals procedure. Section 16(16) then introduces a definition of the term, "aggrieved...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I would not have allowed the Cathaoirleach to forget.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It is high time for the House to debate the Middle East. The participation of Ireland, through the European Union, on the assault on the people of Palestine and their elected Government is a particularly shameful moment. Moreover, it is a peculiar and confused morality which lectures one side for firing rockets while asking for restraint when the other side does so, or which is quite...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: There was a report in today's newspaper on the new phenomenon of homeless immigrants. Those who have been here long enough to know how I came to this House will know of my connection with the Simon Community. Although I have been aware of this for a while I was asked not to make a public issue of it, however it has been done. In view of the refusal to give people from accession States access...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I support the amendment. That successive Governments, and not just the present one, have shown such astonishing reluctance to include in legislation a date on which it would come into force serves as the most appalling commentary on the inefficiency of our whole system of government. Governments are most reluctant to deal with amendments that do not cost a lot of money when one tries to get...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, subsection (1), line 5, to delete "including" and substitute "being". This amendment proposes enabling the Health Service Executive to enter into an arrangement with anybody to carry out the repayment to people of money stolen from them. It is worded in a way to ensure the service can be contracted out to a private body if the HSE so wishes. I listened to...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Has it fallen off?

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister of State should not start. I will take it from my colleague beside me but I might not take it from a Minister.

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We now know something. We know that the Government does not know how much this outside agency will be paid. I thought somewhere along the way we had got a commitment that this would never happen again and that we would not allow these sorts of dangerous, open-ended contracts to private sector advisers, supporters, consultants or experts because of what happened with PPARS in particular. We...

Seanad: Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Committee Stage. (13 Jun 2006)

Brendan Ryan: The Minister of State does not know how much it will cost, though.