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- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: Balbriggan will be the first primary care centre in Ireland to be opened.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: When I went into the Department of Health and Children I got the file on Roscommon County Hospital and was shocked when I read the proposal at that time, which I had to ensure would be reversed. I know a good deal about local politics and about ensuring that one's constituency is looked after in a proper manner. All I can say to the Minister in that regard is, "So be it". I make no...
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: I will tell the House about stroke politics. When the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, put ¤20 million into Wexford General Hospital for a new accident and emergency unit, the Government of which he is a member closed the accident and emergency unit in Roscommon hospital.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: I also welcome him and congratulate him.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: Well done to the Minister of State and I congratulate him. I welcome him back to the House.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: One cannot get plastic surgery in Roscommon if one were dying.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: The Senator should worry about Ennis hospital and not Roscommon hospital.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: I welcome the Minister but I regret that no officials from the HSE or his Department are here.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: The Minister is alone, but he is in good company at the same time. Having been a Minister of State in his Department, it sounds like a much more exciting place than when I was in it between 1987 and 1989. Hawkins House was not quite as dramatic.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: I would like to know if the Minister did give delegation to-----
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: I think I am sticking very closely to it. I will develop my argument as I go along, so wait in anticipation. Did the Minister actually delegate responsibility to the former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall? It is a very important point.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: I thank the Minister for that because that is not always the case in his Department. Between the Minister and the Secretary General, there has been much toing and froing in the past. Having been a Minister of State in that Department, all I can say is that if one is delegated responsibility, one works in conjunction with, consults and shares responsibility with one's Minister. One does not...
- Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: That is very positive.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: From 1 October 2012 the Private Security Authority demands a fee of up to ¤2,250 for a licensee to install CCTV cameras in private houses. Anybody who breaks the law, including householders, will incur a fine ¤3,000 and be committed to imprisonment for 13 months. Heretofore this service was readily provided by local electricians or technical people. When the Government came into office...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: Indeed, and should not have set up many of those organisations.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: The Government assumed office on a promise and won the election under false pretences on many issues, including transparency in Government. Please do not raise the health centres because there is more to come out on that issue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: Yes. I ask the Leader to examine this point to ensure there is a reduction in charges. The licensing issue is fine but a person should not be charged ¤2,250 for a licence every two years to install small CCTV cameras in a private houses or businesses throughout the country. I had no expectation of the Government but the public had high expectations of the Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)
Terry Leyden: It will go down in flames the same as the previous Coalition Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2012)
Terry Leyden: Dream on.