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Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: If the issue is not settled, there will be wholesale unemployment in small pharmacies.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: Many pharmacists have entered long-term contracts through the deal they had with the former health boards, the Department and the HSE. Those contracts are being broken now, without negotiation or discussion. I think the issue will be resolved. We solve everything over here, eventually.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: However, it takes time. Finally, I condemn the activities of the editors of RTE's nine o'clock news last week. They used a half cocked, fabricated document - seven pages were taken out of 56 pages. I hope Senator Eugene Regan, the expert on the tribunal-----

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: This is the Oireachtas. The nine o'clock news did not give the facts that Mr. Turner was entitled to a passport because his mother was Mary Margaret McCarthy from Cork.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: My point is that editorial control in RTE has to be tightened to ensure documents from the tribunal-----

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: It is my personal advice.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: Work is getting scarce.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: Where is Senator Eugene Regan now?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: It means much to me.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: The Senator should congratulate him on his wedding also.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Terry Leyden: There is no crime in the Seanad.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2008)

Terry Leyden: I support Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú's request with regard to RTE and the continuation of medium wave services. Approximately 10% of listeners have medium wave and it is used quite extensively, particularly overseas as well as here at home. I cannot understand what justification RTE would give for the discontinuation of the service. Perhaps we could request the Leader to have the matter...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)

Terry Leyden: She could not do it any more than she does.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2007)

Terry Leyden: It is easy to know he is a journalist.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Terry Leyden: Well done.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Terry Leyden: I support Senator Mary White's call for a debate on corporation tax in Northern Ireland which is at the high rate of 30% compared with 12.5% for the rest of the country. Sir David Varney's report to the British Chancellor of the Exchequer is unhelpful because Northern Ireland is separated by sea from the rest of the United Kingdom and it is a much more disadvantaged area. We can make a...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Terry Leyden: I also welcome the decision on community child care subvention by the Minister of State, Deputy Brendan Smith, arising from the debate in this House. I conveyed to the Labour Party at the time that we would sort out the problem in a positive way.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Terry Leyden: It is on the record that Fianna Fáil would work this out as a party. We did so at a parliamentary party meeting.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Terry Leyden: When the information came from the child care workers, we came up with a decision. That is positive and pragmatic politics.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Terry Leyden: It is fortunate that we, Fianna Fáil, the Progressive Democrats and the Greens, are in Government together.