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Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: That is because——

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: The Joint Committee on Health and Children is very busy. There are other bodies it must engage with in order to hear everybody's view. It is not the fault of the Tánaiste or Professor Drumm that the committee does not have more time for them to appear before it. The accident and emergency consultants appeared before the committee two weeks ago. They argued that the solution is more beds but...

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: Hear, hear.

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Second Stage. (4 May 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I am happy to allow my colleague Senator Kate Walsh to get some oxygen while I use my few minutes. I welcome the Minister of State and the Bill. The National Economic and Social Development Office will be established under the terms of the National Economic and Social Development Bill. The new office will incorporate three bodies, the National Economic and...

Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Bill 2002: Second Stage. (4 May 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: No. As the Minister of State has pointed out, the NESF was the first established, in 1993. Its purpose was to contribute to the formation of a wider national consensus on social and economic policy initiatives, particularly on unemployment, equality and social exclusion. I am pleased to have been asked by The Taoiseach to join the NESF. I share my membership with other Members of this House,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 May 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: I support Senator Daly's request to the Acting Leader to clarify whether it would be possible for Professor Brendan Drumm to address the House. As a member of the Joint Committee on Health and Children, I was present during a most worthwhile meeting of the committee, at which Professor Drumm was in attendance, approximately a month ago. The House would benefit greatly from a question and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: On the last point, I was at the airport on Monday and returned yesterday. I was able to book my car into the long-term car park before I departed and everything was very comfortable and pleasant. I do not agree with what Senator Browne said.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: I congratulate the Taoiseach and the Government on the wonderful 1916 commemoration ceremony. There are people in this House who sneered at it a few months ago and said it would not work. It proved a wonderful success and those of us who witnessed the parade were very proud of the Defence Forces, the Garda Síochána and our country. The way the Defence Forces and the Garda Síochána...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Apr 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: Legislation might come to the House before the debate on pharmacies and pharmacists sought by Senator Ryan. Last Thursday at a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children, the Tánaiste stated that legislation was imminent and would be presented to the House before the summer. Senator Ryan is correct in that for the first time legislation on the industry will cover...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: Over the past 24 hours we learned that the files of at least 20 patients are to be examined in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, to analyse the work carried out and procedures followed by certain surgeons, a number of which ended in fatalities. Last week, Members called on the Leader to organise a debate on self-regulation and I reiterate that call. The time is right, as we are in the run-up to the...

Seanad: Agrifood Sector: Motion. (29 Mar 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: Senator Coonan's is lost.

Seanad: Agrifood Sector: Motion. (29 Mar 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: Let us not get carried away.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: I support Senator Ryan's call for a debate on self-regulation. The time is right for such a debate, which would be very useful. In view of the upcoming commemoration of the 1916 Rising, could the Leader ask the Minister for Defence, Deputy O'Dea, to give some special recognition to the brave women who took part in the rising? We all know and acknowledge the great work and contribution of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: I welcome the decision of the Medical Council to refer medical practitioners to its fitness to practise committee. This matter arises from Judge Maureen Harding Clark's report and more than six medical consultants and practitioners will be investigated by the committee. However, unless prima facie evidence is found by the committee, this does not mean a case will or can be taken against the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: He is not afraid of the Senator's party.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: He does. He is here the whole time.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Mar 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: He had just come from Sligo.

Seanad: Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements. (9 Mar 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: I welcome the Minister of State to the House for this important debate. I am delighted the Upper House has an opportunity to debate what the Minister described as an excellent, fair, comprehensive report. We thank Judge Maureen Harding Clark for the speedy report she has presented. Before I begin I want to congratulate Patient Focus, particularly Sheila O'Connor, who stuck with this issue and...

Seanad: Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements. (9 Mar 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: I will conclude because other Senators have as much to contribute as I have.

Seanad: Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements. (9 Mar 2006)

Geraldine Feeney: I am glad that Judge Maureen Harding Clark has pointed her finger at the people at whom I have pointed my finger — the anaesthetist and the pathologist. Her recommendations represent a blueprint which should be taken on board by all medical specialties in all hospitals. There needs to be a change of attitude so that the medical profession cannot continue to lord it over members of the...