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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: The Chairman is collegial when he wants to be. He has shown-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: On the Lansdowne Road process, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform announced that the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland would not be increasing its retention fee until 2019. What was the role of the board in that? What on earth is role of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in that organisation? Is the board being told not to collect money? We have been told...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Who took the decision, then? It is the board's decision to increase the fee, yet that decision seems to have been taken by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister for Health in these negotiations. What else were they telling the board to do?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Has the board made a decision to implement the Lansdowne Road agreement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Your board-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: It is very relevant to this issue. It is your board's decision-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: We will have collegiality when it suits the Government. I am asking a very pertinent question here about everything that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: It is the worst committee in the House. Let us be honest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: There is no holding anyone to account, especially not the Government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I am trying to get to the bottom of who made a decision that is a statutory function of the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: It is extremely relevant because it is about how the board operates and how it is able to operate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: She is not party to the agreement, but it is very relevant to how things have been run and the efficiencies.
- Seanad: One-Parent Family Payment: Motion (15 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I was not expecting that, but I am happy to second the motion on this important issue, which has been the subject of a great deal of public debate in recent weeks and is causing severe anxiety, stress and worry among those who are affected by it. It is a fact that those who comprise one-parent families - mothers or fathers and their children - are generally among the poorest people in...
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second and Subsequent Stages (14 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Fianna Fáil is delighted to support this legislation. As the Minister of State has said, it is a technical Bill which relates merely to the appointment of Rear Admiral Mark Mellet as Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces. The Bill provides for a commissioned rank of Vice Admiral in the Naval Service to be equivalent to the rank of Lieutenant General which is the traditional rank held by...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: What Bill is the Senator talking about?
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: What Bill did the Senator mention that we are not taking on Monday?
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Will the Leader and the Committee on Procedure and Privileges review how the Order of Business is conducted in the House? Many of us - I include myself among that number, from time to time - come in for the Order of Business and speak off the top of our heads on matters that do not pertain to Parliament and legislation, leading to ridicule in the media and confusion among the general public,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: That was a legislative matter. On the particular day the Visitors Gallery was full of people from Kells.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: It is not one of the issues sometimes raised here that create mirth and laughter. It was an issue of general concern to thousands of people. An issue that is of even broader concern to people in this country is that of mortgage arrears. The Government promised two months ago there would be changes to the bank veto and an expansion of the mortgage to rent scheme. Nothing at all has...
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Thomas Byrne: To follow on from Senator Kelly's point, a wind farm application was thankfully refused in County Meath recently. The whooper swan was one of the reasons, but also the very important heritage we have in County Meath. I am sorry to say that heritage is being further threatened by EirGrid, which has put in a planning application for a gigantic and extremely ugly overhead power line at a time...