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Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I second the amendment, which makes eminent sense.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I have no problems with the amendments as drafted. I am glad, however, that the registration board or the council may ignore the Competition Authority if they see fit because some of the more daft utterances from the Competition Authority from time to time would make one very nervous. It believes competition would give us a better health service and appears to be oblivious to the fact that...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: While I broadly welcome the amendment, I quibble with the wording "published by electronic means or otherwise". The Internet is an additional method of publication rather than a substitute. A board should be required to maintain and publish a printed register also. My amendment seeks to include the wording "on the Internet and otherwise". The Internet is not a substitute for books, newspapers...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Criminals, bankrupts and politicians are excluded.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I support Senator Browne's comments. There are many bodies from which I am legally excluded, some of which have to do with education and for some of which I am qualified to be a member, due to my membership of the Oireachtas. It seems to be fine to appoint the public relations adviser of the Minister for Transport to the Higher Education Authority but not to appoint a Member of the Oireachtas...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 31: In page 38, lines 40 and 41, to delete all words from "a video" in line 40, down to and including "transmission" in line 41 and substitute "or any other mode of transmission, provided that where cross-examination is sought by a party to the inquiry, the mode of transmission must permit of such cross-examination". We could argue all day about the precise wording but...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: The Government selected candidates.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 9, to delete line 9 and substitute the following: "(g) physiotherapist or physical therapist". I am not sure amendment No. 32 is consequential as the amendments are variations on the same thing. Senator Browne's amendment is a more precise expression of what I intended to achieve with amendment No. 2. We have been intensively lobbied since Committee Stage by...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: If I were rewriting my speech, I would be quite happy to take the Minister of State's script, since he made the case that there is a profession called "physical therapy" and admits that the Department of Health and Children does not understand it. He says that five or six months after Committee Stage, it has not replied to requests from his Department for further information. It has a title...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 3: In page 9, line 17, after "subsection (1)," to insert "and in particular shall, within the period of 12 months from the passing of this Act, so designate the profession of counsellor or therapist,". The biggest and potentially most dangerous unregulated profession in the area of social and health care of which I am aware consists of the myriad counsellors and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is hard to add to what has just been said. I am not an authority on this but I know a little about these matters. There is no reason for a rich country to have a waste crisis. There is no reason for a city like Dublin to have a waste water treatment plant which stinks. There is no reason for Senator Dooley to have to raise the matter.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: He attempted to raise the matter on the Adjournment. There is no reason pharmaceutical plants should smell. If they do, it is because they are badly run. If a waste water treatment plant smells, it is because it is badly run. If we are pretending to recycle waste by simply shipping it off to China, that is because we will not do it properly. All of those problems are soluble. There are...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: It is absolutely true.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Tá ball d'Údarás na Gaeltachta nach bhfuil in ann labhairt Gaeilge.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: Ba chóir go mbeadh náire ar Fhianna Fáil go ndéanfadh sé a leithéid. Tá an ceart ar phobal Chonamara nuair a thugann siad Údarás na Galltachta air nuair atá duine ina bhall ar an údarás sin nach bhfuil in ann comhrá a dhéanamh as Gaeilge.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: This would be a much poorer country without Senator Maurice Hayes. Every week he appears to take over some body to try and help us to sort out another matter.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I congratulate him on his most recent appointment.

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (21 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: I can make thumping speeches as well as the next person. I intend to be a little more restrained on this occasion, although I do not intend to be any less critical. In my final year in college I was taught there are four functions of management — planning, organising, staffing and controlling. My understanding always was that staffing, organising or controlling could never be achieved...

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: That is correct.

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2005)

Brendan Ryan: A leaked version of the report to which Senator O'Toole referred features on the front page of today's edition of The Irish Times. Among other findings, it concludes without equivocation that Irish consumers are being ripped off. The report as leaked states that even if one takes all the other issues such as insurance into consideration, Irish consumers are still paying excessively high...