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Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: There is no problem about them.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: I support Senator Quinn's call concerning the issue raised in the research carried out by a doctor in Trinity College into children going to school hungry. The only way to approach the issue is to keep highlighting it. I was surprised on reading the research to learn that children presenting themselves at school without having had a breakfast experience slow physical, intellectual and...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: I agree with Senator Ryan. However, it was normally the non-professional person on the board of which I was a member who insisted on maintaining confidentiality. The tendency to leak information always gives rise to problems. It is normally the professionals on boards, rather than lay members or those representing particular interest groups, who are most guilty of leaking information. I...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: I do not know how workable Senator Browne's proposal would be. From the Medical Council's point of view, every time there was a query over something, the 27 year old legislation concerned would be taken out and read, and one was working continually on the legislation in place. It would be almost negative to provide in the Bill for a review in three years' time because one would not have...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: I share Senator Henry's concerns on that and especially her last point. They are in a position where they are housing drugs and cash. We live in a security conscious era. Even from a lesser point of view, Senators Henry, Browne and I have been receiving mail over the past two weeks from a certain Irish lobby group regarding the Medical Practitioners Bill 2007. I am glad the mail is being...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: I wish to follow up on a point made by Senator Browne on prescription validity and the point raised by Senator Henry. When a doctor prescribes a certain brand of drug, he or she should also write a note on the prescription to state if the particular brand is not available, another brand is to be used, possibly a generic drug. It would make it more economical, not for the pharmacist but...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: I also wish to voice my concern to the Minister. I welcome that these issues are being addressed by the Bill and that the Minister will deal further with hospital pharmacies and pharmacists in the second Bill. She was right to say those pharmacists comprise an important group of professionals. I can empathise with their belief that they have been forgotten in this debate because they are...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: The word "training" is a vocational term.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: On the point raised by Senator Ryan, from my experience of having been a member of the Medical Council, in regard to mediation or in the case of the Medical Council where there is a health committee, such a practitioner would not go before a fitness to practise committee but yet there would be genuine concerns about his or her practice which would render restrictions being imposed. In the...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: In that case I would agree with the provisions of the Bill.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: On the point made by Senator Browne, I am such a person in so far as I was not a Senator when I was appointed to the Medical Council in 1999. I was elected to the Seanad in 2002. My position was unique in that I was on the fitness to practise inquiry hearing into Dr. Michael Neary. This was an ongoing inquiry which had been running for 18 months. For practical and financial reasons and to...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: It could be raised on the Adjournment.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: Which Minister was it?

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: I welcome the Minister and the Bill. To say it is long awaited is to put it mildly as the existing pharmacy regulation is 130 years old. The medical practitioners legislation is 30 years old. Even though the regulation is 130 years old, one never hears about pharmacists — community, hospital or industrial — getting themselves into trouble or kicking up a storm or being demanding. They...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: Indeed. It is easy for me to say what I am going to say next. Everybody should be encouraged to build a relationship with a pharmacist, just as we build a relationship with a doctor. I had a meeting today with two pharmacists who made the same point as Senator Minihan made and which he knows from experience, as he was the manager of a pharmacy. A pharmacist may have more time to speak to...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: He would need to be inducted.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: He should take his own time.

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Geraldine Feeney: Did the Senator not find a good pharmacist?