Results 741-760 of 1,094 for speaker:Camillus Glynn

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: Several building sites have recently been closed down for health and safety reasons. There is also evidence that some people acting as health and safety officers are not suitably qualified, the implications of which are a matter of serious concern to those who are qualified. I strongly support Senator Leyden's call for a rolling debate on health service issues. I have called several times for...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee Stage. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: The proposal to introduce doctor-only medical cards is a very welcome measure. I am glad the Labour Party is supporting Fianna Fáil policy relating to people over 70. Middle income earners are pretty much liable for everything and entitled to nothing. Too often in our clinics we meet people with young families and big mortgages who are in excess of the guidelines. These people will be helped...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee Stage. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: I quoted what the Senator said.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee Stage. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: I agree with Senator Henry that the dispensary scheme system often did nothing to compliment human dignity. Both she and the Minister will agree there is a growing difficulty for people to get on a general practitioner panel in certain urban and rural areas because of a shortage of GPs. We should let the message go out to the many good young men and women who may go into the medical field...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee Stage. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: Now.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Report and Final Stages. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: I thank the Minister of State and Members for their contributions to the debate, which was worthwhile. The debate brings to mind the value of both Houses and the Presidency because legislation was considered and sifted. It highlighted the worth of our institutions of State. Even with the best will in the world in both Houses, a hiatus can occur from time to time. I strongly support the...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Report and Final Stages. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: It was not the first time and it will not be the last.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Motion for Earlier Signature. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: I move: That pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Health (Amendment) Bill 2005 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to her.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Motion for Earlier Signature. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: At 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 22 March 2005.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee Stage. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: I agree with the Minister that it is very difficult. As the old saying goes, exceptions make bad laws. The central point is that whatever resources are available for the elderly should be devolved to that care area and utilised to the optimum effect and that those who benefit from the resources should be the right people to do so. I have worked in this area and I stand over that. There are...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee Stage. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: The Senator is right to do so.

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: It would be advantageous to Senator Browne if somebody were to read him the report at bedtime because I do not think he has read it.

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: A second perusal would seem necessary. I compliment John Travers on this report. One thing that comes through very forcefully is that for the past 29 years, a situation obtained in long-stay institutions that clearly was not legitimate. That has been borne out in this report. It took 29 years and this Minister for Health and Children and Government to put it on a solid footing. I accept that...

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: I hate ambulance chasing. It happened with the army deafness claims and it has begun again here not merely among the legal profession, but also among some politicians. I find that offensive. I want to read paragraph 4.25 from the report: It may be important to point out, to the extent that this might otherwise not be apparent, that the problems surrounding the custom and practice of charges...

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: I have more authority in this respect than the Senator.

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: Senator Browne is talking nonsense. He has not read this report or interpreted it correctly.

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: There is a clear effort being made by some of those on the other side of the House to demonise Deputy Martin. By quoting from a particular page it has been inferred that this issue was dealt with in an outer office. As a long-standing member of a local authority, a chairman of two authorities on two occasions and, to a lesser extent, a Member of this House, I can state that this is not the...

Seanad: Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Statements. (10 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: On what page is the reference?

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (9 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. The Bill provides for the amendment of the Health Act 1970 to address two substantive matters, namely, to provide a legal framework for the charging of patients for the maintenance element of in-patient services in publicly funded long-term care residential units and for the introduction of doctor-visit medical cards. The Government has...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (9 Mar 2005)

Camillus Glynn: A Minister who went through several stages of political metamorphosis and wound up in the Labour Party presided over that debacle. Senator Browne objected to the word "maintenance" but that has been around since Adam was a boy. He asked us to go back to 1976. As Senator Feeney stated, this issue is not all about what happened since 2001. A coalition Government was in power from 1973 to 1977....