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

Fidelma Healy Eames: We have heard that before. I was involved in health promotion with the Midland Health Board from 1998 to 2002. I was at that point involved in a review of primary health care units. We still do not have one in Galway.

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: The review also found that the failure to take prescribed medicine has a direct adverse effect on health and results in increased use of health care services and higher health care expenditure. All my points show that the 50 cent charge is short-sighted and is merely a Band-Aid to a bullet hole. The conclusion of the Cochrane Collaboration review is that "increasing cost-sharing may present...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: Some have closed.

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: A good idea.

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: True.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: A bad deal for the saver.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: What Senator Leyden raised is interesting. If he had listened to Mr. Eddie Hobbs this morning on TV3's "Ireland AM", he would have heard him state clearly why the national solidarity bond is a bad deal for the saver.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a bad deal for the saver because it is not linked with inflation.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Last week Senator O'Donovan lost the whip in here. Last night Deputy Mattie McGrath did. If Fianna Fáil continues to let the Greens run riot with rural pursuits, soon jockeys will lose the whip.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is what will happen to horse racing and to point-to-point racing.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: My question to the Leader is fundamental. Why did Fianna Fáil allow the Greens to renegotiate this deal as part of the programme for Government that will put rural pursuits and rural Ireland on the back foot once again? It is not good enough.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They had to give them something, that is the answer.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes, it will be fishing and shooting next. Watch the point-to-point.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a positive note, I welcome the new lifeline thrown to mortgage holders who are in trouble today. This is something for which I, Senator MacSharry and many others have been looking for quite some time. What I want especially is a debate on the terms and conditions that will apply to that. Of course, it is the smart thing to do. There is no point in putting people on the street,...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: -----to an expert group that says it is important to protect the householder and the mortgage holder.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Now we need equally an explanation as to why Anglo Irish Bank is not paying back, and there is no long-term plan around terms and conditions, for the €22 billion lent to them-----

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: -----the amount we borrow as a nation on an annual basis.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Who is lobbying the Greens?

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: A bit more than beyond the Pale.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2010)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Externally, but not internally.