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Seanad: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber and I wish her well in her new role in the Department of Social and Family Affairs. She and I will have plenty of interaction with the decentralisation of departmental offices to Buncrana, as well as the social welfare consolidation office. I wish to speak about the need for the Minister for Health and Children to outline the efforts being made to reduce...

Seanad: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I ask the Minister to bring to the attention of the Minister for Health and Children that the fundamental question I raised was not answered in the reply given. Are people who have been waiting for operations for more than three months treated as a matter of priority, or must they wait until the 400 people on the waiting list have been dealt with before they are treated as priority cases?...

Seanad: Dublin Transport Authority Bill 2008: Committee Stage (8 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Amendments Nos. 29 and 84 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Seanad: Dublin Transport Authority Bill 2008: Committee Stage (8 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Amendments No. 32 and 33 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Seanad: Dublin Transport Authority Bill 2008: Committee Stage (8 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Amendments Nos. 37 to 41, inclusive, are related, therefore they may be discussed together by agreement.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I am almost embarrassed to stand up and say nice things about my colleagues who got jobs yesterday, given that Members from the Opposition have done that but said that we should not be doing it. I congratulate Deputy Brian Cowen on his election as Taoiseach and Deputy Brendan Smith on his selection as Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. I wish him well at the WTO talks, which will...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: He has done excellent work.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I endorse the call for a debate on the marine made by my colleague, Senator Denis O'Donovan. The Leader may not know that I raised this issue last week because he was busy with international duties supporting the Taoiseach. I suggested we should have issues pertaining to the marine brought under one remit. This request for a debate was gracefully refused by the Cathaoirleach on the basis...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I was asking that this time around, the Leader of the House might bring it to the attention of the new Taoiseach that the House has an interest in the marine and that we would like all matters related to it consolidated under one Minister. The Minister for Transport should come to the House in the near future to discuss this issue, which is of particular interest to me. I wish to acknowledge...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: He did not just speak about it; he created it.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Senator Buttimer is running for heckler of the year.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Many are called.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: There are no cups of tea.

Seanad: Control of Dangerous Dogs. (1 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to raise this issue. I welcome the Minister of State. The primary reason I raise the issue of dangerous dogs and the need for them to be kept under reasonable control relates to the possible impact their being at liberty may have on children. However, given that the Minister of State has responsibility for the elderly, this matter is as much a...

Seanad: Control of Dangerous Dogs. (1 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I outlined in sufficiently clear terms the issue about which I am concerned, which relates primarily to what happens when these animals gain entry to private property. I do not wish to advocate a specific solution because I might be promoting some commercial interest or other. If, however, the use of electric fences or collars was compulsory on private property, dogs might not be able to...

Seanad: Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: This is not a particularly usual situation for the Houses of the Oireachtas. There is virtual unanimity on the Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, with the exception of one political party. While I am advocating a "Yes" vote in the referendum, I accept that people have the right to make up their minds on this matter. All I ask is that campaigners be honest with the Irish...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Is Senator Buttimer trying to get an award for interrupting people?

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: The Senator came down to earth with a bump.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Each winter, the House spends much time discussing road safety. Given the lengthening days, it is timely that we consider ways in which to improve road safety so that we need not discuss it so much next winter. I do not know whether the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government or one of his colleagues would be responsible for requiring lights to be on all bicycles....

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I challenge every Member to stand outside the gates of Leinster House on a dark evening and to count how many bicycles without lights go past. Whether technology has reversed or advanced so far that there can be unlit bicycles, we should return to the good old days of pedal power. It should be compulsory to attach lights during the manufacture of bicycles. This would aid road safety in...