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- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: That is what she is saying. As I travelled to Dublin this morning, I listened with interest to the BBC reporting that Tony Blair, who I accept we would not want to copy, delivered a major lecture today stating that cottage hospitals and smaller hospitals cannot provide every acute service.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: We will ask the Minister to come to the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: Senator Leyden raised the issue of the mysterious circumstances surrounding the murder of Garda Richard Fallon over 30 years ago. The Senator asked whether the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform could open the files and explain the outcome of any investigation of them, which would be worthwhile. Senator Coghlan commended the unity of those campaigning on behalf of Monaghan...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: I am endeavouring to say it as it is. Senator Bannon also asked for flood relief to be allocated to the counties which suffered from flooding at the weekend. He did not refer to any county in particular. Senator Dooley raised the issue of water quality in the context of the failure of a â¬2 million water treatment system in Ennis, County Clare, to rectify the water problems there. Senator...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: Senator Jim Walsh joined the debate on youth mental health. He called for a debate on the vested interests in the profession. Such a debate would be helpful.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: That is right. Senator John Paul Phelan mentioned that a consultant psychologist position in Kilkenny is vacant. He asked about the status of the Hanly report. The Senator also asked me to raise with the Minister for Education and Science some concerns which have been highlighted in respect of Down's syndrome. I have not heard about any curtailment of the hours given to the education of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: Some 1,500 people attended the meeting to condemn the idea of water metering.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: That is fair enough. We cannot force the Senator to speak. Senator Mooney talked about a knee-jerk reaction to the television programme. I am glad I had a knee-jerk reaction to the programme. One could not but feel intensely emotional about it and if that is a knee-jerk reaction, what harm? It is proper that we felt that emotion. The Senator said he had good experiences of the support...
- Seanad: Official Languages Act Regulations: Motion (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: I move: That the Order of the 21st November, 2006 referring the proposal that Seanad approves the Official Languages Act 2003 (Section 9) Regulations 2006 in draft, to the Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, shall have effect with the substitution of '14th December' for '5th December'."
- Seanad: Bovine Diseases (Levies) Regulations 2006: Motion (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: I move: That the proposal that Seanad Ãireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Bovine Diseases (Levies) Regulations, 2006, copies of which were laid in draft before Seanad Ãireann on the 1st December, 2006, be referred to the Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food in accordance with paragraph (1) (Seanad) of the Orders of Reference of that Committee, which, not later than 14th...
- Seanad: National Economic and Social Development Office Act: Motion (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: I move: That Seanad Ãireann approves the following Order in draft: National Economic and Social Development Office Act 2006 (Establishment Day) Order 2006, copies of which have been laid in draft form before Seanad Ãireann on 1st December, 2006."
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: The Order of Business is Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. No. 1, a procedural motion to allow the Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs more time to consider the motion on the Official Languages Act 2003 (Section 9) Regulations 2006. This motion will allow the committee to report back by 14 December, rather than 5 December as previously agreed, and is to be...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: That is correct.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: Regarding what?
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: Is Senator Coghlan inviting me to it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: We unveiled all the CIE pictures in Athlone last night.
- Seanad: British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: I take the benign view that it is a protocol to mention the Department of Finance in legislation. I never introduced a Bill that did not refer to that Department. We will await the Minister of State's response but we should realise that the Department underpins all other areas.
- Seanad: British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: That is a good point.
- Seanad: British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: I regard this as a very important few hours' work and thank all those who contributed, as well as the Minister for being so forthright. The Acting Chairman was with us in London when the British Bill was piloted through the House of Commons by the Northern Ireland Secretary, Peter Hain. It is strange that they do not have their faces on the screen. We are very modern here, but there one...
- Seanad: British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (29 Nov 2006)
Mary O'Rourke: I welcome the Bill and the Minister of State. It is a technical Bill because it gives domestic legal effect to the exchange of letters but if that was all there was to be said it would be sterile. It is not, however, sterile because it allows the continuation of the Special European Union Programmes Body, SEUPB, under another name. Those programmes have made a great difference to life in...