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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Heritage Sites (5 Mar 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Tom Hayes. It would appear that the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is busy. I ask that the Minister responsible for Brú na Bóinne, whom I understand to be Deputy Heather Humphreys, would meet a delegation of residents from the area. We are talking here about a very...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Heritage Sites (5 Mar 2015)

Thomas Byrne: We are afraid that the public consultation process is merely a box-ticking exercise. The evidence for such a belief is that the project was started back in 2011 and, as the Department's officials admitted at a meeting last week, very little has happened since. The Department was restructured and there was a move from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Heritage Sites (5 Mar 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I have said so a number of times. We are extremely proud of the site and we love it.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Repossession (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I raise the important issue of repossessions that are happening around the country. There is a huge number of repossession cases, thanks mainly to the enactment of the 2013 conveyancing Bill. It was very unfortunate legislation which I was happy to vote against. As it in place, I want to make sure it will work in some way and give some relief to those who face repossession, particularly of...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Repossession (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I am angry, not with the Minister of State, Deputy Humphreys, but the Minister for Justice and Equality. The idea that the excuse for county registrars handing out repossession orders and kicking people out of their homes is that there are too many cases and if we got judges involved, the system would not be able to cope. That is effectively what the Minister of State has said - the system...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Repossession (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: This Government brought in the law allowing repossession.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Repossession (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I was working on this issue before the Minister of State was ever in these Houses.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Repossession (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I wrote a report on this in 2009, before the Minister of State was ever heard of.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I move: That Seanad Éireann: noting: -the deplorable overcrowding being regularly experienced in hospital emergency departments; -the record number of patients waiting on trolleys; -the further delays in scheduled hospital treatments that will result from such overcrowding; and -the failure of the Government and the Health Service Executive, HSE, to adequately prepare for a...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I gave several examples of the tricks ---

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I gave the examples.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: That is lazy analysis.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: What about Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital?

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: The INMO is saying the situation tonight is unprecedented in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: Can children be subjected to the maximum waiting time? Are they part of that or is the 20-week target completely separate?

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: In other words, the 20-week target is not completely separate from the 18-month maximum.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: That included last year's bailout.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I thank the Minister for his patience and for staying here. It is appreciated as I would have understood if he had to put his Minister of State in for a while as Our Lady of Lourdes in Drogheda is facing an unprecedented crisis as we speak.

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: I am not saying that and I am not saying he should leave. I am saying I would have understood. I do not want the Minister in a hospital. The last thing hospitals need is to have politicians floating around. The reality is that there are 30 admitted patients there according to the INMO at the moment.There should be 14 nurses working tonight, but I understand from the INMO that only nine...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Thomas Byrne: -----in respect of the lack of orthopaedic and paediatric services after that man retired.