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Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Michael Finucane: The Minister will not listen to substance. He is all spin and no substance.

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Michael Finucane: And also from the Progressive Democrats.

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 May 2003)

Michael Finucane: It is shameful.

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 May 2003)

Michael Finucane: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 May 2003)

Michael Finucane: This House recently debated the issue of crime, with particular reference to assaults in Dublin and other areas, with the Minster for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. Regrettably for the Minister and his family, this was followed by an assault on his son that was publicised in the newspapers. I understand since then that the Minister has instigated an inquiry with the chief superintendent in...

Seanad: Order of Business. (8 May 2003)

Michael Finucane: We will have to have a team meeting over here.

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 May 2003)

Michael Finucane: Health seems to be the focus today. Many Members received literature about the national treatment purchase fund. Those of us with constituents who wished to undergo surgical procedures discovered that it was possible to have them carried out in Northern Ireland and the UK provided that certain criteria were complied with. It is difficult for people to accept what is happening when 250 beds in...

Seanad: Order of Business. (7 May 2003)

Michael Finucane: That is how important it is at this stage.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: Last night I was allowed to raise on the Adjournment the issue of decentralisation to Newcastle West, Kilrush and Listowel. In his final response the Minister of State, Deputy Parlon, stated decentralisation would happen soon. It will happen shortly – at least that is what the Minister of State says – after a long, long wait.

Seanad: Order of Business. (16 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: I know that but I just want to reassure my colleague. In response to what Senator McCarthy said on the Vintners Federation of Ireland and the Irish Hotel Federation lobby, Senators will be aware there is concern among the cancer bodies, the Irish Heart Foundation and ASH from which we have all recently received letters. They state quite definitively that they hope there will be no rowing back...

Seanad: Cancer Treatment Services: Statements (Resumed). (16 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: I wish to share time with Senator Brian Hayes.

Seanad: Cancer Treatment Services: Statements (Resumed). (16 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: I am glad to renew acquaintance with the Minister of State. I raised the issue of radiotherapy with him last November and again this February in an Adjournment debate. I know he is aware of my concerns in relation to the absence of such a service in the mid-west region. The leaking of the contents of the expert review group report, which has been anticipated for the past two years, did not...

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: I know you are a modest man, a Chathaoirligh, but I wish to congratulate you on being appointed a trustee of the GAA. I will leave it at that. Well done.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: I do not want to see County Kerry having a monopoly on these positions.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: Certainly, I have.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: I support what Senator Henry has said about the SARS epidemic and the fact that public health doctors are in dispute. The Minister for Finance has made it quite clear to the Minister for Health and Children that if he wants funding, it will have to come out of his own budget because the Department of Finance will not provide an extra allocation. If the dispute drags on, it will put the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: That is a nonsense.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Decentralisation Programme. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: Well over a year ago, on 31 January 2002, I raised in the Dáil the issue of decentralisation for Newcastle West, Kilrush and Listowel. At the time the Minister for Finance, Deputy McCreevy, indicated that he was not in a position to state when decentralisation would occur. In his Budget Statement of December 1999 he announced that he would embark upon a new and radical programme of...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Decentralisation Programme. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: Can the Minister of State indicate when the famous announcement will be made?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Decentralisation Programme. (15 Apr 2003)

Michael Finucane: Soon?