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Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Senator should not forget the west.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: As Deputy Michael Noonan said it is pathetic.

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: The legislative process has continued for a year and three or four months. We have soldiered into the Chamber at various Stages of the Bill. I am delighted this country will be formally compliant with the Hague Convention on the enactment of the Bill. As a prospective adoptive parent in the mid-1990s I was assessed according to the terms of the Hague Convention. To be fair to the former...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is very relevant.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The joke is that while the recession might be technically over people are still hurting financially and personally. There are two examples that should be addressed. First is the high cost of food in our supermarkets, the low cost of alcohol and how that is contributing to the high cost of food. It is an absolute scandal that alcohol could be more important than food in this society. Will...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State. Can the Minister of State tell us where are the files on the 20 couples in abeyance for more than one year? Those dossiers were in Vietnam before 1 May 2009 when the Ireland-Vietnam bilateral agreement closed. They are waiting and they are afraid to speak out. If they speak out as a group, they are afraid it will mitigate against them. They do not know...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is important.

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: What timeline does the Minister of State envisage in respect of the aforementioned 20 couples?

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: Does the Minister of State perceive this to be dependent on-----

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: I will take the opportunity to raise with the Minister of State the issue of the files that continue to be held up with regard to Russian adoptions. I ask him to address the failure of the HSE to complete the post-placement records of children placed in Ireland and the manner in which this is preventing further adoptions from Russia to Ireland.

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: Indeed.

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: What can be done to force individual couples who may be holding up the process to comply?

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: Can we not appeal to them on moral grounds?

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: They are preventing other Irish couples from adopting.

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: Are such couples written to?

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: To catch them anyway.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Home birthing.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. The prescription charge in the Bill will not make the healthy choice the easier choice, particularly for vulnerable groups. We must remember it is doctors who prescribe, not patients. Perhaps the Minister should target the doctors rather than making patients pay. Let us look at the facts. I am basing all my points on evidence. Thirty per cent of the...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Not in Galway. Galway is unique in not having a warfarin clinic. This is because of the glut and the need to get it into the community. The health promotion evidence is all about making the healthy choice the easier choice. Cochrane Collaboration, an international drugs review body that assesses health systems and the effectiveness of drugs, found that introducing prescription charges...