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Seanad: Order of Business. (30 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: The Minister refuses to do anything about it. He has refused on numerous occasions to do anything about it. The Minister is asleep.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: The Minister is asleep and has forgotten about the west of Ireland.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: The Minister is also deaf.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: The Comptroller and Auditor General yesterday issued a disturbing report on serious abuse of the rent supplement scheme, which will have cost almost €2 billion in slightly more than five years. Politicians will have seen many instances of the scheme being abused. In one case an asylum seeker who was working illegally claimed around €85,000 in more than four years but faces a decrease in...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: I suggested that it is far too expensive and a waste of taxpayers' money.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: We are not getting value for money.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: The Comptroller and Auditor General picked them out.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: I also welcome the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. Howard, to the Oireachtas. On my way here today I heard an Independent Deputy say that anyone who listened to Mr. Howard in the Dáil is spineless. I am elected by the councillors of this country, and also by the people, and I want to go in and welcome a Head of Government to this country.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: Turning our back on the Head of State of another country is wrong. We can go in and ask the hard questions while performing our civic duty by welcoming the Prime Minister of a friendly state to this country. Last week I asked for the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to come into the House to address the serious issue of transport services being withdrawn from elderly people...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: I ask the Leader to invite the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to explain to the House the diabolical decision taken by the HSE western area not to grant free ambulance transport services to people who do not hold medical cards. This is vital to those on dialysis and is not available through private health insurance. Removing the transport facility to those who do not hold...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: Senator Minihan said he was the only member to wear the uniform of the Defence Forces. I was proud to serve in the FCA.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: I am not sure if the FCA was as proud of me.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: Not entirely. I suggest we invite the Minister for Transport into the House to discuss the budget for roads. The NRA now has a policy of devoting 95% of its budget to national primary routes. National secondary routes and regional roads are also important and we need to review how that money is spent. It is not always difficult to link one national primary road with another — it often only...

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to debate the accident and emergency crisis, which is something most of us do not wish to encounter. One only arrives in an accident and emergency unit if one is ill or has an accident and one wants to get emergency care. There are many pluses and minuses in the health system. Two years ago, my elderly mother went to Sligo hospital for a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: It is an honour for Ireland.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: I join with my colleagues in calling for a debate on the electoral register. I am disappointed that the penny has just dropped because this issue has been raised many times. My colleague, Senator McHugh, raised this issue over a year ago when he outlined that PPS numbers should be used in the electoral register. Maybe it is not too late, but something should have been done before this. I join...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 May 2006)

Frank Feighan: That was in Donie's area.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the International Monitoring Commission's report which gave the IRA as clean a bill of health as possible. This will help the political climate. I am pleased the DUP attended the BIIP conference in Killarney and it appears that things are moving in the right direction. I was also at the GPO on Easter Sunday. It was a wonderful parade.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Frank Feighan: It was a wonderful 1916 commemorative parade and we should be very proud of our Defence Forces or Óglaigh na hÉireann. Prior to the parade, the Taoiseach made one of his worst speeches. He announced the cornerstones of Irish——

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Frank Feighan: I would like to put on record that he announced the cornerstones of Irish democracy. Perhaps he forgot, or was ill-advised, but he did not mention W.T. Cosgrave's support for a fledgling democracy. He did not mention John A. Costello.