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Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: -----and what it will mean to taxpayers.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: Fine Gael is giving unhelpful long lead-ins to deliver free GP and free pharmacy services. It is giving itself three years. It is a lot of wriggle room.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: It certainly will not work. Fine Gael has not researched it.

Seanad: Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme: Statements (23 Apr 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: I wish to share my time with Senator Walsh, by agreement.

Seanad: Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme: Statements (23 Apr 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: I welcome our new Minister of State, Deputy Brady, and congratulate her on her appointment. Senators on this side of the House are delighted that she was recognised and promoted because she is ideally suited for her brief. As a young, modern woman with a healthy family, her eyes will be firmly fixed on health promotion. I am grateful for the opportunity to speak about diabetes. The last...

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: I am delighted to welcome the budget. I also welcome my constituency colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Jimmy Devins. He has been a Minister of State for a long time but I have never had an opportunity to speak in the House while he was taking the business of the day. There is no doubt that this is a very difficult budget which is coming at a very difficult time. The Taoiseach,...

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: He is still in the Chamber. He was still here when I mentioned him. Fine Gael shouts and roars at us to stop lecturing it. It should put forward good workable plans. Senator Buttimer criticised one particular cut in the entire budget but he does not give us any solutions. What is Fine Gael's alternative? When somebody the calibre of Mr. Sutherland states what he did this morning, the...

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: I did not interrupt any speaker. They throw out the old reliables like the Galway tent and all our friends working in the Anglo-Irish Bank and all of these type of things. It is only themselves they are letting down because it is falling on deaf ears now. Eddie Hobbs, and George Lee to a certain extent, Brian Keenan and Joe Durcan, have all said the Government did not have a choice, that...

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Elder Abuse: Statements (8 Apr 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: Yes.

Seanad: Elder Abuse: Statements (8 Apr 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: We were told we could ask questions. I do not know if the Minister of State was aware of that.

Seanad: Bowel Cancer Awareness: Statements (7 Apr 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: I, too, welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Máire Hoctor, and thank her for taking the debate. I welcome the representatives of the Irish Cancer Society in the Visitors Gallery. Two of the society's members, Ms Lorna Jennings and Ms Kathleen O'Meara, are very well known to Members of the House. They leave no stone unturned in chasing us up. If they do not get us in one way, they get us...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Mar 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: I support the other strong voices of Senators in the Chamber who condemned the brutal attacks and brutal murders in Northern Ireland at the weekend. We have become so accustomed to peace in the North of our country that we could not believe our ears when we heard of those murders. Even this morning when I heard at 7 a.m. that there was another murder, I thought that one of the men who was...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: Amendments Nos. 3 and 20 are related and can be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed?

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: They will be put sequentially as they are reached.

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: Yes.

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: I will call amendments Nos. 14 and 50 when they are reached. Do Members wish to raise issues in regard to these amendments now?

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: We debate the amendments now but we call them when we reach them.

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: Is it in order to proceed with amendments Nos. 3 and 20?

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: Is it agreed that amendments Nos. 3 and 20 will be discussed together? Agreed.