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Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: I welcome the Minister of State to the House to discuss this very important issue. As colleagues have pointed out, the matter has been raised on numerous occasions in this House between Private Members' motions and statements. The Minister of State is doing her best under very difficult circumstances, bearing in mind that we are barely out of a troika programme, but I am not satisfied she...

Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: I was referring specifically to strategies to raise awareness and so on.

Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: I am clarifying what I said, not what anybody else said.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: I did not name him.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: Tom Garvin was wonderful too.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: I also commend the advancement in terms of blocking child pornography and recognise the work of Senator van Turnhout. I wish also to pay tribute and express my sadness on the passing of my friend and former lecturer, Mr. Brian Farrell, who was an inspiration to me when I was in college. He was an inspiration to many thousands of students in college. He was probably one of the brightest and...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: He is a great lad.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: I echo what Senator Bacik said about the launch of the Ruhama report yesterday. I know people are very busy and Irish Water is a very important topic but I was disappointed that only two Oireachtas Members attended the launch of this fundamental issue of human rights. Irish Water is an important issue but the way women in prostitution are treated and trafficked into this country is a much...

Seanad: Penal Reform: Motion (5 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: Go raibh maith agat, a Sheanadóir. Is Senator Reilly seconding the amendment?

Seanad: Penal Reform: Motion (5 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: You do not wish to speak. Therefore, I call Senator Mullins.

Seanad: Penal Reform: Motion (5 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: Go raibh maith agat. I welcome my good friend and Minister of State to the House. It is great to have him here and he is very welcome. I hope this is the first of many visits by him to Seanad Éireann. He will find that the level of debate here is probably a little more collegial than in the other House. Although the events of this morning would make him think otherwise. As always,...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Medical Card Applications (4 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: I also thank the Minister for staying on to take this Adjournment matter. In the past number of months, taking a holistic view on it, our experience in dealing with the medical card primary care reimbursement service, PCRS, staff has improved. However, this case is an example of how matters were and how they should not be. I would not normally put a medical card application down as an...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Medical Card Applications (4 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: I note the reply. Of course, one would not discuss a specific case particulars on the floor of the House. This is an example of where the system still is not working. The information requested has been provided but yet it is deemed not acceptable, although Revenue cannot understand what is acceptable because what is deemed to be acceptable by the PCRS does not exist in the eyes of Revenue....

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: What about the university hospital in Galway?

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh, and I too welcome the Minister to the House. Listening to the contributions here today, he would probably need to be a magician in order to keep everybody happy. It is probably a unique ministry in the sense that it has such a big budget and there is such a varied level of responsibility from health prevention to dealing with crisis management, not just...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Martin Conway: I agree with Senators Terry Brennan and Terry Leyden that it is great to see 20,000 people coming to Dublin to attend the Web Summit in the RDS today. This venture, with its extensive programme of events, is a credit to the organisers and city management. Unfortunately, however, our hotel industry has let us down yet again by imposing exorbitant prices to coincide with the summit. There is...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Medical Indemnity Cover (22 Oct 2014)

Martin Conway: I raise the matter of home births and related midwife indemnity issues because I have been contacted by a number of constituents. The Minister is familiar with the issue and I am interested to hear his reply.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Medical Indemnity Cover (22 Oct 2014)

Martin Conway: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply on a matter that we will return to in this House in due course.

Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)

Martin Conway: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)

Martin Conway: I have met them as well and I have experienced exactly the same.