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Seanad: Veterinary Practice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (22 Mar 2005)

Michael McCarthy: I move amendment No. 44: In page 36, subsection (3)(a), line 7, after "requisite" to insert "educational qualification prescribed under section 66, and". Foreign registration applicants should have appropriate educational qualifications. Studying to enter the veterinary profession is very difficult. High points are required in the leaving certificate, and for the next six years students must...

Seanad: Veterinary Practice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (22 Mar 2005)

Michael McCarthy: I support Senator Henry's amendment, for obvious reasons, considering the amendments have been grouped. It is a reasonable request for the Minister to consider this proposal. The inclusion of the word "humane" is an important issue. We must be mindful of the implications of failing to examine this in the proper context and of perhaps allowing a situation to occur which the Minister would not...

Seanad: Veterinary Practice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (22 Mar 2005)

Michael McCarthy: I move amendment No. 4: In page 10, subsection (1), line 30, after "public", where it secondly occurs, to insert "free or". The provision in section 2 does not specifically require the Veterinary Council of Ireland to charge a fee for making information available to the public. However, by using the term "if any", it may seem appropriate to highlight the possibility of making information...

Seanad: Veterinary Practice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (22 Mar 2005)

Michael McCarthy: I support Senator Henry's comments. The original 1931 legislation is entitled the Veterinary Surgeons Act. The expression is in common usage which this amendment seeks to take into account. I am not asking the Minister to move mountains on this matter. It is simply being practical in how terminology is applied.

Seanad: Veterinary Practice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (22 Mar 2005)

Michael McCarthy: This issue is worthy of re-examination on Report Stage. I urge the Minister to reflect on it until then.

Seanad: Veterinary Practice Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (22 Mar 2005)

Michael McCarthy: The lobby groups also raised this matter and Veterinary Ireland made a genuine point in claiming that the council had insufficient vets. This amendment is worthwhile and the Minister should actively consider it. While considerable discourse about this aspect of the Bill has taken place, it would be reasonable for the Minister to consider this proposal positively.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2005)

Michael McCarthy: I support the Senators who raised the issue of the Nigerian student and the manner in which he was deported. I will quote a comment he made to The Irish Times on 21 March 2005 when he was contacted in Lagos: I had nowhere to go. When I was walking around I ran into some gangsters, who thought I had money on me. I was attacked and molested. My clothes were torn, I was starving and I had no...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2005)

Michael McCarthy: The Senator should sit down.

Seanad: Child Care Services: Motion. (9 Mar 2005)

Michael McCarthy: This important debate has been given added impetus as a result of the forthcoming by-elections in Meath and Kildare North. Child care is one of the main issues debated on the doorsteps with politicians of all hues. A number of comparisons have been made between the situation now and in 1997. This comparison does not compare like with like. Much has happened in the past eight years, not least...

Seanad: Food Safety: Statements. (3 Mar 2005)

Michael McCarthy: I welcome this debate. It is taking place as a result of recent reports of the contamination of food products with the industrial dye Sudan Red 1. Most of us had never heard of it until it made the news. This opened up an important debate on food safety on this country and our attitudes thereto. This country has relied on the food industry in recent years. We have built a good reputation...

Seanad: Food Safety: Statements. (3 Mar 2005)

Michael McCarthy: On a point of order. Senator Coonan asked for this debate also.

Seanad: Food Safety: Statements. (3 Mar 2005)

Michael McCarthy: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Mar 2005)

Michael McCarthy: Last Christmas, the Department of Social and Family Affairs gave two payments, instead of one, to recipients of certain social welfare allowances such as invalidity payment, carer's allowance and retirement pensions. The double payments received a great deal of attention in the media at that time. Various people, including representatives of sectoral groups, called on the Government to allow...

Seanad: National Spatial Strategy: Statements. (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McCarthy: We can provide a good Government.

Seanad: National Spatial Strategy: Statements. (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McCarthy: We agree the Government is a shambles.

Seanad: National Spatial Strategy: Statements. (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McCarthy: I hope we do not get the knock the Minister of State experienced in Government.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McCarthy: I raise the plight of 40 Polish workers employed at the Dublin Port tunnel whose contracts of employment are being examined by Government labour inspectors. It appears the Polish workers earn approximately half of what their Irish counterparts receive, notwithstanding the standard wage agreed by all companies involved in the construction industry. The failure to provide the Polish workers...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McCarthy: A misunderstanding.

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Feb 2005)

Michael McCarthy: I wish to raise the same issue as that raised by the previous two speakers. The Supreme Court judgment was a well-deserved rebuke for the way this issue was handled all along. It raises a number of issues, not least the property rights of pensioners, a vulnerable group in society who had money taken from them illegally. We all know the advice that was available to the Government and what...

Seanad: Regional Transport Policy: Statements. (16 Feb 2005)

Michael McCarthy: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Callely, and his officials to the House. I welcome also the opportunity to debate regional transport policy. Those of us from rural areas have continually made the point that there is a mindset that invariably confines the debate to the greater Dublin area. From a national and a regional perspective, road transport is by far the most important mode of...