Results 14,421-14,440 of 15,268 for speaker:Kathleen Lynch

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: These are internationally recognised specialists but their opinion is no longer accepted or valid.

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: What if it turns out that they are right?

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: The test is not 100% reliable and cannot be so.

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: Other tests with a similar failure rate.

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: No it is not.

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: There is nothing technical about it at all. I can explain it to the Minister of State if he wishes, in very plain language.

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: The Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children is now changing the rules to say that people with this particular complaint can only have one partner and if that partnership fails, tough luck.

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: I concur to a great extent with many of the last speaker's comments. Having this legislation before the House that has been in the making for the past nine years and on which there was extensive consultation in the past two years beggars belief. The people who entered the negotiations with the Tánaiste's officials did so in good faith. They are not unreasonable people. If we were dealing...

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: The statement is by Professor Peter Simmonds. It continues: Similarly, 11 from 63 cleared infection over 10 years from infection clearance, and a further 9 from 56 over 3 years in a community based study in Italy, comparable to the loss of antibody in prospectively followed haemophiliacs (3 from 12 over 6-15 years;) and post-transfusion non-A, non-B hepatitis patients (6 from 90 over at most...

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: Where?

Northern Ireland Issues. (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 9: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position in regard to all parties in Northern Ireland expressing their support for the PSNI; when he expects Sinn Féin to be in a position to take their seats on the policing board; the efforts he has been making in this regard in recent months; if he expects movement on this issue before, during, or after the summer 2006; and if he...

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Order for Second Stage. (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: On a point of order, this is exactly what happened a while ago. People were very confused about the last vote because they thought they were voting on the Institutes of Technology Bill 2006——

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Order for Second Stage. (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: ——when, in fact, we had moved on to the Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006.

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Order for Second Stage. (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: I was on my feet asking for the Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006 to be referred back. I could not be heard in the confusion, however. Nobody clearly heard what the Ceann Comhairle was saying. I am not saying that was his fault as it was clearly the fault of those who were making noise. I was not given an opportunity to make my proposal before the vote took place. I...

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Order for Second Stage. (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: That will be allowed.

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Order for Second Stage. (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: A Cheann Comhairle, you must accept it is confusing when one cannot hear what you are saying.

Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006: Order for Second Stage. (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: It is especially confusing when we are dealing with a sensitive issue like this one.

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: In respect of the Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2006——

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: My question is very specific. Is it normal that a Bill is published without an explanatory memorandum because this is what has happened in the case of this Bill? Is it proposed to circulate an explanatory memorandum?

Order of Business. (29 Jun 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: That is not the case.