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Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: It was shameful and disgraceful. I call on the people who wrote that report to stand up and be counted by putting their names on the ballot paper at the next local elections.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: Our councillors are the foot soldiers of democracy and they are paid buttons. That is a fact. I join my colleagues in condemning the editorial and the other comments in the newspaper today that criticised local public representatives.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: We have a jaded and weak Government.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: We have a Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children who failed to appear on current affairs programmes.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: She was asked to appear on "The Late Late Show" recently——

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: ——to discuss the health situation. She wanted to appear on——

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: The Tánaiste wanted to appear on the programme, control events and dictate——

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: Senator Bannon must put a question to the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: I want the Leader to invite the Minister for Health and Children to come before this House to update us on the position regarding the processing of claims for refunds of nursing home charges. That is a long-playing record.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: Many families were victims of those charges and they should be compensated at once rather than being obliged to go through legal channels.

Seanad: The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: I welcome the Minister of State to the Seanad to debate this important issue. Many politicians, not just Oireachtas Members but also local public representatives, visit the United States for St. Patrick's Day festivities and get a huge welcome. We only need to visit America to recognise that it has a long history of welcoming people, not just immigrants but perhaps even illegal or...

Seanad: The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: This lame-duck Government that does not protect our sick, our elderly and our pensioners, to which the Senator referred earlier.

Seanad: The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: Earlier Senator Leyden said it was an uncaring Government that has not looked after elderly people's interests.

Seanad: The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: Senator Leyden should not interrupt me on this issue when the Government has not looked after the elderly in the midlands over the past eight or ten years, as he pointed out on the Order of Business. American society is one where even putting a child's name down for a week's summer camp at a local centre involves more form filling than we can imagine. To be undocumented in a culture such as...

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: I support the call for a debate on road safety, an area on which we must step up action. I was shocked to learn recently that a small device available for sale in the United States and, I am sure, elsewhere can detect speed checks from a distance of three miles. This apparatus needs to be outlawed and the practice condemned. I ask that the Minister for Transport come before the House to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: The Senator's party has been in Government for many years but has done nothing about it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: Deputy Cassidy knows nothing about it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: It would be a case of the Government taking action.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)

James Bannon: Will the Leader invite the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, to the House in order to debate the effects of the high cost of fuel on the economy? Consumer prices have gone through the roof recently. This year alone there has been a 30% increase in the price of heating oil and a 25% increase in the price of petrol and diesel at service stations...