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Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (23 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: I support Senator Kett in highlighting the situation in which rehabilitation engineers find themselves. As the Senator rightly observed, this legislation provides no regulatory body for them. They are, however, the dominant player in terms of their dealings with some of the other disciplines accommodated in the Bill. If we do not examine this issue, patients may suffer in the long term...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (23 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: I agree with Senator Henry's comments. On examination of the areas of psychology at third level and first or second class honours degrees, people must do postgraduate studies in order to secure employment. No one will look at them when they come out of universities with primary degrees. We all spoke at length on Second Stage about the types of psychologists. Someone after six weeks of...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (23 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: I welcome these amendments. The reason for the Health and Social Care Professionals Bill 2004 was the protection of the public as well as to regulate the professions. The public is being protected by the provision of continuous professional development. At least the public will know these practitioners have bought in to continued professional development. This is essential to give that...

Seanad: Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (22 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: On Tuesday, 29 November 2005.

Seanad: Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (22 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: At 10.30 a.m. tomorrow.

Seanad: Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005: Order for Second Stage. (22 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Seanad: Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005: Second Stage. (22 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: I welcome the Bill. It is a technical Bill to clear up various conflicts between existing Acts and to accord recognition to EU regulations. I agree with Senator Feighan that it might appear, at times, that we are over-regulated. I certainly feel that way occasionally, particularly with regard to local pharmacies. Not long after I was elected to this House, I put on record the great role of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (17 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: I support other Senators who called for a debate on the west, particularly in light of the report launched yesterday, Rural Ireland 2025. I agree with Senator Kitt, that the west is alive and well. We acknowledge the great progress and work of this and the previous Government. It is time for a serious debate on agriculture in the west. I congratulate the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: What about poor Veronica Guerin? She died on Fine Gael's watch.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: I recognise the need for a debate on gangland crime but there is an onus on us as politicians not to interfere too much with the valuable work being carried out by the Garda Síochána. I listened to Paul Williams on Pat Kenny's radio programme this morning and his view was that the Opposition parties would be better served if they did not jump up and down each time an issue arises.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: Those sentiments should be borne in mind when we have that debate.

Seanad: Ferns Report: Statements (Resumed). (15 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank him for his excellent presentation and the manner in which he delivered it. No Member was unimpressed or unaffected by the presentation and the manner of its delivery. We normally rise to welcome a Minister who is coming to the House to take a debate and we also welcome the subject of debate. Sadly, the Ferns Report cannot be welcomed by...

Seanad: Ferns Report: Statements (Resumed). (15 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: Look at Sinéad O'Connor. She has the same view.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: I ask the Leader if she will consider a debate on the harmful and often fatal effects that paracetamol can have. In recent years great strides have been made by allowing only one packet of, for example Panadol, to be sold over the counter but we must do more. It came to my attention over the summer that people take paracetamol without realising the effect it has on the liver, in particular....

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: We are debating this matter in the Joint Committee on Health and Children.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: Senator Bannon has probably never been to this place.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: What crisis?

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

Geraldine Feeney: I, too, rise in support of other Senators who have called for a debate on the Ferns report on which I congratulate Mr. Justice Murphy. I seldom disagree with Senator O'Toole. While there is merit in delaying the debate, we also need to strike while the iron is hot. We did not need the Ferns report to tell us that there was child abuse going on but the severity and the type of material in it...