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Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I do not want to delay the House or make life difficult for Deputy Power who is from the same part of the country as me and is an old acquaintance from many bodies.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: It might be irrelevant, but it is a nice thing to say. This is not a contentious issue. A Government, which rightly tells us about the disciplines of the marketplace and the need for efficiency reserves to itself the right to delay implementation. I do not say there is a conspiracy, but the Government holds up the process and lengthens the timescale of decision, making as it fails to impose...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: While I do not wish to speak for Senator Henry, I do not especially like the idea of grouping for discussion amendments on entirely different branches of the caring professions. I suggest amendment No. 1——

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I do not agree that amendment No. 1 should be discussed with the other amendments in the group.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: We should take amendment No. 24 separately.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I made a resolution that I would keep quiet about matters that I had not raised myself but, having listened to the argument, I would like to make one point to the Minister of State. If he refuses to accept Senator Henry's amendment, anybody could come into this country and call himself or herself a podiatrist and there would be no regulation to prevent him or her from doing so. If I am wrong,...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I have a procedural point. We have spent 45 minutes discussing something Senator Maurice Hayes, who is as experienced a public servant as I have ever met, said he thought would go through on the nod. There is a message to be learned from that by the Minister, namely that the Members of this House and the Dáil put down amendments for a reason and expect a reasonable response. We did not get a...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I understood we had decided to take amendment No. 24 on its own, but it is a matter for Senator Henry.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 9, line 9 to delete paragraph (g) and substitute the following paragraph: "(g) physiotherapist or physical therapist". On a procedural matter let me suggest gently, as I have often done in this House, that it would be no harm to consult Members regarding grouping.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I agree, although it took me 20 years to discover that I could disagree with the grouping of amendments.

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: In deference to the Chair, I will not respond to Senator O'Toole. We have all had representations made to us regarding the confusion between the terms "physiotherapist" and "physical therapist". Listening to the language, it is easy to understand the confusion. Apparently, in terms of health insurance, if one goes to a physical therapist one may not get payment under one's health insurance...

Seanad: Public Private Partnerships: Statements. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: There was some jousting during the Order of Business about ideologies and "isms" of various kinds. I have no objection to public private partnerships. Any concerns I have are based on a feeling that perhaps the driving force behind such schemes is ideological. Where they work properly, however, nobody could object to them. Who could object to the introduction of additional finance into public...

Seanad: Public Private Partnerships: Statements. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I have raised this point previously in the House. One comes off a roundabout on the M50 and sees a sign, "toll ahead", but there is no sign indicating the toll one is required to pay or which lane one should be in. By the time one knows which lane one should be in, one is irretrievably committed to the lane one is in. An extraordinary profitable company should be able to put together proper...

Seanad: Public Private Partnerships: Statements. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: That and much more I would say. That does not prove I was inefficient. It was simply the way it was done. I will return to the subject. The answer to the question of whether we are getting extra funding is "Yes". Are we getting a sharing of risk? In some cases the answer is undoubtedly "Yes" and in the case of schools the answer is "Yes". Are we getting good value for money? In terms of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: Aer Arann charges €200.

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I agree with Senator O'Toole on Margaret Hassan. I would rather wait until there is certainty about her death before saying anything. We could have a debate on Aer Lingus. Something intriguing is happening in this country — the Taoiseach has discovered socialism and Senator O'Toole has obviously rediscovered socialism.

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: The only difference between the Taoiseach and me is that I discovered socialism when I was 20. It took him until his mid-50s to discover it. Perhaps he will show the zeal of a recent convert. We could have a debate before Christmas on the pre-budget submission of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the response to which would be a good test of anybody's socialism. It should not be a question...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: I compliment Senator Maurice Hayes on a fine piece he wrote in The Sunday Tribune last Sunday about the apparent act of vandalism about to be perpetrated by the National Roads Authority. A former member of this House and former professor of archaeology, George Eogan, also subscribes to that view. I am not sure I would want this House to discuss the routing of motorways in the normal course of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: They have made money but they have not made a national airline. I would like a debate on the question of a national strategy so there is national access to international air services, which we are liable to lose outside Dublin if the present policies continue.

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2004)

Brendan Ryan: And national.