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Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: I move amendment No. 6: In page 5, before section 2, to insert the following new section: "2.—The Independent Review Group on Child Deaths established by the Minister for Children may interview any person the group believes could be of assistance to them in the examination and inquiry they are to undertake into Child Deaths and require any person they wish to interview to attend at such...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: If we have learned anything from the Ombudsman's report published yesterday it is that co-operation from the HSE officials mentioned by the Minister might not be forthcoming. The Ombudsman said she was led on an Alice in Wonderland-like trail around the system to try to get information to which she is entitled. She remarked that there is something rotten within the system. To deny the...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: On what basis?

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: When?

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: No, but I would like to coment briefly on it.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: I respect the ruling of the Chair.

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to explain the most recent amendments that were made to the Bill in the Dáil. He is aware of the importance of using every resource available to him to resolve the issue for the 20 families who are left in abeyance, in effect, in limbo. That should be one of his major concerns in the coming weeks. I genuinely believe he is doing all...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: I congratulate the Minister of State on moving Ireland to the position where it is ready to give effect to the Hague Convention on intercountry adoption. It is a positive step forward and I congratulate him on it. I echo the sentiments of my colleagues who have spoken on the heartbreak suffered by many prospective families. Parents have endured an emotional rollercoaster over the past...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: I seek clarification-----

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: I seek clarification on one aspect, if that is possible. Is the Minister of State saying efforts are ongoing?

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: Is the process continuing outside the Hague Convention process?

Seanad: Health Services (16 Jun 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: In County Galway today, almost 1,300 children have a hearing impairment and are awaiting their very first assessments by a senior audiological scientist. These vulnerable children are very much in need of early intervention, if they are to achieve their full potential in adult life. The fact they are left waiting is completely immoral and unjustified. If we claim to be protecting the most...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jun 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: I ask the Leader for a debate on food labelling. In recent months we have seen ample evidence of widespread abuse of the food labelling system by some multiples. Some of them deliberately set out to deceive shoppers into believing the farm produce they are purchasing is of Irish origin. We have seen liberal and deceitful use of the Irish tricolour in certain multiples. The vast majority...

Seanad: Ombudsman for Children Report on Children First Guidelines: Statements (19 May 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: The context in which a debate takes place more often than not has a major influence on the outcome of that debate. In the aftermath of the publication of the Ryan report last May, we were galvanised as a nation in our resolve to ensure no child would ever suffer the kind of horrific abuse described in that report. We said: "Never again and not on our watch." We in the modern and...

Seanad: Ombudsman for Children Report on Children First Guidelines: Statements (19 May 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: The Senator's colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, is calling for the referendum.

Seanad: Ombudsman for Children Report on Children First Guidelines: Statements (19 May 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: The Senator should speak to his colleague, Deputy O'Rourke.

Seanad: Ombudsman for Children Report on Children First Guidelines: Statements (19 May 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: Did I mention by-elections?

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 May 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: I would like a debate on our vision for public transport in this country, and how it dovetails with our national spatial strategy, which is in urgent need of radical re-assessment. We have learned in the last few weeks that if credible and convenient public transport alternatives are provided, the people will change the habits of a lifetime. A statement yesterday on the Dublin bikes scheme...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 May 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: I seek an urgent debate on the reprioritisation of the budgetary allocations. The most human reaction to an entity, be it a country, community or family, experiencing difficult economic circumstances is to protect the most vulnerable by building around them a shield to protect them from the biting winds of recession. However, we appear to have done the opposite. We are allowing those winds...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 May 2010)

Ciarán Cannon: Last night I met two parents of two young children, one a year and a half old and the other two years old, with severe disabilities and special needs. The two women concerned are doing the best they can for their children. They tell me that every support upon which they have been relying is slowly being taken from them, leaving them with nothing other than the support of family and friends...