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Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: I support the calls for a debate on the terrible issues the country is facing. I understand that senior Ministers are not available when they are in the Dáil. I agree with Senators O'Malley and Hanafin — perhaps we should go to the other House to listen to what is said. Like everybody else, I heard at 6.30 a.m. this morning that the talks had failed. I almost had a seizure. We were...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: It Members of the Opposition are offering alternatives, those alternatives have no substance.

Seanad: Foster Care: Motion (17 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I move: That Seanad Éireann commends the Government, the Health Service Executive and the Irish Foster Care Association and acknowledges the measures taken for the continued successful provision, development and support of foster case services which give children the opportunity to experience life in a supportive family setting during particularly vulnerable times in their lives; Seanad...

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: Perhaps the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, at its quarterly meeting with Professor Drumm and the Minister, can consider the report rather than the Houses.

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: As a point of information, widows and widowers, irrespective of age and income, do not pay the health levy. I know this from personal experience. It would be very difficult to try to ascertain who does not pay the levy. I am not trying to be awkward in saying this.

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I do not pay the levy because I am a widow, but if I were not I would feel it were an invasion of my privacy if someone were giving out information I did not want given out.

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: What is the purpose of obtaining the information the Senator seeks?

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: What would we do with and what is to be ascertained from the information on the amount of people who do not pay the levy?

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: Naturally, I will not be supporting the amendment. As a member of the Joint Committee on Health and Children, of which Senator Fitzgerald is also a member, where on a three-monthly basis we have a meeting with Professor Drumm and the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, I believe such a forum would be a much better arena in which to get feedback and to hear how many general...

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: What I mentioned was that one Fine Gael member from Sligo told me he was up for the day for the craic.

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I never mentioned retired teachers.

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: Senator O'Toole was allowed, a Chathaoirligh. I did not mention retired teachers.

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I am meeting the retired teachers on Monday next——

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: ——as are all my Fianna Fáil colleagues. A Chathaoirligh——

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: ——if the members of the Opposition are allowed put their case across——

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: ——it is only fair that we should be allowed. We are being hammered here——

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: ——and we cannot come back in to correct ourselves.

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I, for one, am meeting the retired teachers on Monday next in Sligo.

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: They do not have to come to Dublin.

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: A Chathaoirligh——