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Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: Forget about the block grant.

Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: The only partitionist party in the room today is Sinn Féin because it distinguishes between residents in Strabane and Lifford. They can be sure-----

Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: I know where the waffle is coming from. It has been coming from the Sinn Féin representatives in Donegal who have attended meetings I have also attended-----

Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: -----and castigated the Government on every occasion.

Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: They have repeated what Mr. Jarlath McNulty said across the Border about the mental health and well-being of the residents-----

Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: Sinn Féin should be honest with the people and tell them why it is doing it. It is doing it because it is in government in Northern Ireland and must do it. However it comes down here and tells us to do something different.

Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: Sinn Féin has no powers whatsoever.

Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: It has no powers.

Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: Obviously it has no powers.

Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: I will say one thing.

Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: Sinn Féin may not have powers but it has the power to protest and make statements. A statement was issued from Stormont this evening, but no statement has been made about Greenfield House or the care of the patients there. Why not?

Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: I am not here to defend the Minister, Deputy Reilly, or any person. I am here to defend the Government and the actions it is taking on primary care. I am well aware of the future of primary care for my children and their children, and it is important we put it in place and not end up back where we were in 2010.

Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy White, to the House. I was listening in my office to the contributions of various Senators. The contribution from the Sinn Féin Member in relation to home care was hilarious. During a telephone conversation with a friend of mine from Strabane, I was told the residential home there is due to close shortly. A number of other homes in Northern Ireland...

Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: I previously lived in Lifford, which is about a mile from Strabane. Everyone in Donegal is aware of the threat of closure of Lifford community hospital, which is a residential home. For the past two or three years Sinn Féin councillors and Deputies have been jumping up and down on platforms stating how disgraceful this is, while a two minute jog away on the other side of the river there is...

Seanad: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Statements (9 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: As usual, the Minister of State is welcome. He has been highly proactive in the small business area as he comes from such a background. Small and medium-sized enterprises, together with the farming industry, are so important. I note representatives of the latter were here in force today outside Leinster House. The problem for any small business in today's economy is accessing liquidity or...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: I ask the Leader for a debate in this House on private schools, a matter that has been covered on the airwaves in recent days. I believe the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, and the Minister of State, Deputy Kelly, are correct in saying that private education should be private and should be paid for accordingly. I do not want the taxpayers of Donegal to be paying for the...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2012)

Jimmy Harte: I ask the Leader for debate on the situation in the HSE north-west area. Many of the staff who work with people with disabilities or with autism, have had their travel halted. Unless the reason for the travel is a clinical one - this is very difficult to define - they are being informed they cannot travel. In a county like Donegal and it would also be the case in counties Kerry, Cork and...

Seanad: Smarter Travel: Statements (27 Sep 2012)

Jimmy Harte: I will allow the Senator have her say later. From a health point of view, everyone should be active. This is linked to preventive health issues. We have an obesity problem and are heading in the same direction as many Americans who have weight problems, which can lead to diabetes and heart disease and are a huge cost for the health service. If successful, the smarter travel programme not...

Seanad: Smarter Travel: Statements (27 Sep 2012)

Jimmy Harte: May I share three minutes with Senator Kelly?

Seanad: Smarter Travel: Statements (27 Sep 2012)

Jimmy Harte: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy McGinley, to the House. The concept of smarter travel has been pushed very actively by the Minister of State, Deputy Kelly, recently. He announced funding under smarter travel for Letterkenny cycle lanes when he was in the town a few months' ago. A cycle route through Donegal will also be developed and people will be actively encouraged to get out of...