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Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Second Stage. (18 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the Minister to the House. I also welcome the Bill, although with some reservations. I believe it is being pushed through too fast. It would have been preferable if more time had been taken to research the Bill and examine some of its specific points. There are, however, aspects to the proposed legislation that should be welcomed. I am a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on...

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Second Stage. (18 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: Unfortunately, the separate room is usually licensed, as is most of the building. Therefore, it can be very difficult to define—

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Second Stage. (18 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: Is the Minister able to—

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Second Stage. (18 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: That is welcome. We have the wrong system. When I had a bar and somebody asked me if I would buy a certain person a drink, I was very conscious that that person might have come out to have only two or three drinks and that he or she might have been driving. I thought it common courtesy to suggest to him or her that somebody wanted to buy him or her a drink and give him or her the opportunity...

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Second Stage. (18 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: I am actually making—

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2003: Second Stage. (18 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: I want to clarify what I said.

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: I wish to pay tribute to the people from NAMI who came to Dublin last Tuesday and protested outside the gates of Leinster House regarding funding for people with special needs. There is a serious situation in Listowel, County Kerry. Seven pupils of the Nano Nagle school for those with intellectual disability are due to graduate next Tuesday. Three sets of parents are refusing to allow their...

Seanad: Autism Services: Statements. (11 Jun 2003)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank him for a detailed and informative speech. Staff recruitment and retention is a major difficulty facing the health boards in many areas, including services for people with autism. I spoke here less than two months ago about the recruitment of a senior orthodontist in County Roscommon. While I accept that the Western Health Board...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: There is a growing problem of elderly people turning up at airports to travel to funerals or visit relations who do not have the relevant photo identification. Some of them do not realise they need a passport or driving licence. I ask that the relevant Minister come into the House to outline proposals that might alleviate this problem, which is causing serious distress to many elderly people...

Seanad: Strategic Rail Review Report: Statements (Resumed). (21 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: The strategic rail review report is comprehensive and took a long time to produce. Over ten years ago I participated in a protest march from Sligo and the towns on the Sligo line such as Ballymoate, Collooney, Carrick-on-Shannon and Longford. If that protest had not taken place and if 500 people had not come to Leinster House, that line would now be closed. No funding was put into it. I am...

Seanad: Decentralisation Programme: Statements. (21 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Decentralisation Programme: Statements. (21 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank him for his report. I also thank the Leader of the House for ensuring that this debate on decentralisation should take place. I called for such a debate last October and on numerous occasions since.

Seanad: Decentralisation Programme: Statements. (21 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: I was elected to Roscommon County Council in 1999 from the town of Boyle. There are many towns like Boyle all around the country. It is not a county town or even a major town. However, it is a town with a proud past. It was a market town with many shops and businesses, some of which had been there for three generations. However, in the past 20 years a huge shift has taken place and the...

Seanad: Decentralisation Programme: Statements. (21 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: The Senator is referring to 1982 but we could go back to 1916.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: I call on the Minister for the Environment and Local Government to come to the House to explain a blunder in waste management plans, the intention of which is to reduce and minimise waste, not use landfill sites. However, when county councils dig up roads and remove tar, they cannot take it to a landfill site and it must be transported 30 miles to the nearest dump because it is considered a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: Does it have a Minister?

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: I join my colleague in calling for a debate on decentralisation. We have spoken of dispersal of people and jobs. There is a serious problem in rural areas which have not benefited from decentralisation. This Government has an opportunity to decentralise jobs to such areas. I want a debate now, not when all the jobs have been divvied up by the Cabinet. I call on the Leader to arrange that debate.

Seanad: Health Service: Statements. (13 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: His Senators are certainly loyal to him. The state of a country's health service is one of the test areas for determining if this is an advanced economy.

Seanad: Health Service: Statements. (13 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: Apology accepted. We fail the acid test of health provision. That is not to say that there are not thousands of excellent people involved in the health service. We all know many individuals who are totally dedicated, committed and professional in their approach. I have recently been in Sligo General Hospital and admit that there are areas in it where the service is doing well, such as cardiac...

Seanad: Health Service: Statements. (13 May 2003)

Frank Feighan: I thought she was referring to Hong Kong dollars.