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Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: Senator McFadden is wrong in claiming that Sligo has no respiratory consultant. The appointment has been made and the post will be filled in July.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: There is one coming to Sligo and the appointment has been made.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I support other Senators in asking the Leader to arrange for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Brian Lenihan, to come to the House to debate the lack of safety for young men on our streets throughout the country. I say this in the light of the terrible tragedy of last Saturday. The unprovoked attack took place at 6 p.m. in a very settled, quiet community when people...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I remind Senators that mobile telephones are not allowed in the Chamber. They should be switched off.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I join with Senator Fitzgerald in congratulating Trinity College on the excellent work done in awarding certificates to those with intellectual disability. Perhaps we should call on all third level institutions to follow suit. Institutes of technology could do work with people who are vulnerable and who may enjoy this after second level education finishes. Last week I raised the impasse...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, to the House. I support the call made by Senator Prendergast for a debate on adolescent psychiatry, taking in all aspects of eating disorders. This group does not have a strong lobby and is made up of vulnerable people. Sometimes they deal with issues of life and death, issues I would like to discuss. I have no...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: Why do they not ask?

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: On a point of order——

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: If Fine Gael was working in its parliamentary party, it would not be coming in here.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: The Senator should not refer to a person who is not a Member of the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I congratulate Deputy John Moloney on the excellent job he did yesterday chairing the meeting between the HSE and the IPU.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I am coming to Order of Business. I congratulate the Deputy because the meeting was volatile, to put it very mildly. There was a large attendance and half the people there had to be accommodated in the audio-visual room.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: I am coming to my point. Half of the people were in the audio-visual room watching the meeting. Although it was scheduled to be two hours long, it lasted for five hours.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: We adjourned until 10.30 a.m. this morning, when we resumed for an hour and a half.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: It is.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: It is relevant to the amendment down to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: When Members on the Opposition side raised at the meeting yesterday——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: ——nobody on this side laughed or ridiculed. I am coming to the point I am going to make.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: We met this morning for an hour and half and came very close to agreeing an all-party motion. We are meeting again tomorrow morning to put the finishing touches to that.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2008)

Geraldine Feeney: Meanwhile the Chairman of the committee has gone to the HSE as the leader of the Fine Gael Senators rightly knows and we are all meeting tomorrow morning. The Fine Gael leader also knows that the IPU is meeting the Minister tomorrow. It is disingenuous of her group to put down an amendment asking for the Minister to come to the House.