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Seanad: Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (27 Sep 2007)

Pearse Doherty: This Bill does not do anything to guarantee the future of the VHI as a statutory corporation for which the Government has a special responsibility. The Government is pursuing a privatisation agenda in the health service and has maintained and developed the two-tier, public-private system. This is the context within which the House is discussing the Bill. Sinn Féin has called for the...

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Pearse Doherty: I have heard the views expressed from the Opposition benches and the Government benches and this is a difficult debate to listen to. I come from the north west of the country where the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney, and the HSE have behaved very irresponsibly regarding the health care needs of the community I represent. I say this because this is a life and death...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach. (26 Sep 2007)

Pearse Doherty: Ba mhaith liom cur le moladh an Seanadóir Pádraig de Búrca a thoghadh mar Leas-Chathaoirleach. San am gairid ina bhfuil aithne agam air, tá sé tar éis comhairle a thabhairt dom agus é ina shuí anseo in aice liom. Bhí an comhairle sin de dhíth orm mar gur mé an t-aon Seanadóir atá ag Sinn Féin sa Teach seo. Tá a fhios agam go mbeidh mé sásta comh-oibriú leis an Seanadóir,...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2007)

Pearse Doherty: Ar dtús báire, ba mhaith liom cur leis an iarracht a rinneadh chun díospóireacht a eagrú sa Teach maidir leis na fadhbanna atá in Aerfort na Sionna agus sa réigiún sin go hiomlán. I also call for this House to debate the serious situation that is developing whereby pharmacists are threatening to withdraw all services to medical card schemes from 1 September as a result of the change...

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (13 Sep 2007)

Pearse Doherty: Ní bheidh mé ag chuir in éadan ainmniúcháin an Seanadóir Moylan. Ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a dhéanamh leis as ucht an ainmniúcháin a fháil. Mar atá le feiceáil sa Teach seo, is dócha go mbeidh sé tofa mar Chathaoirleach i ndiadh seo. Déanaim comhghairdeas leis agus le gach éinne atá tofa nó ainmnithe go dtí an Teach seo. Is lá bródúil é seo dúinn uilig go léir,...