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- Seanad: Nursing Home Standards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Nicky McFadden: I welcome the Minister of State. It has been three years since the damning crisis of Leas Cross and the total breach of the duty and standard of care owed to nursing home residents was exposed. The Government at the time said it would never happen again. In March 2008 the final draft of the standards for residential care were published. I, with my colleague, congratulate the Minister of...
- Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Nicky McFadden: I am glad the Minister has taken time to be here. I appreciate that. My colleagues have said there has been widespread acceptance from GPs and geriatricians that more older people will be admitted to acute hospitals because of the removal of the over 70s medical card from 5% of people, and there will be a decline in public health. This generation does not abuse and is not wasteful. It...
- Seanad: Nursing Home Standards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Nicky McFadden: That is true.
- Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Nicky McFadden: Does the Senator know something?
- Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Nicky McFadden: Saved by the bell.
- Seanad: Medical Cards: Statements (5 Nov 2008)
Nicky McFadden: They cannot pay their premia.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
Nicky McFadden: With my colleagues, I ask the Deputy Leader to bring the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney, into the Chamber, regarding the shameful situation where, while â¬2.4 million was allocated in the budget for 2006 for a sexual assault unit for Mullingar hospital and the regional hospital in Galway, nothing has happened. Money was also allocated for Letterkenny but that unit is...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)
Nicky McFadden: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Nicky McFadden: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)
Nicky McFadden: The Green Party was supposed to be the watchdog in government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)
Nicky McFadden: The Government has been doing it for ten years.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)
Nicky McFadden: Half a bale of briquettes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)
Nicky McFadden: Hear, hear. It was unreal.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)
Nicky McFadden: I want to raise the serious issue of the closure of Connolly barracks in Longford. On "Morning Ireland" this morning a distraught wife of one of the soldiers, who is to be transferred to Athlone, explained how it would affect her home and family in Longford. While I warmly welcome people coming to Athlone, it is a terrible indictment on the Government that it will remove 180 people from the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)
Nicky McFadden: What about a pay freeze?
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)
Nicky McFadden: We did.
- Seanad: Broadband Infrastructure Bill 2008: Second Stage (22 Oct 2008)
Nicky McFadden: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I commend Senator Ross on bringing forward this Bill. It is worth pointing out the obvious that every Member of this House would like to see Ireland at the top of the OECD league for broadband rates. However, there are huge differences between us in the urgency and delivery of that happening. The importance of broadband access is something my...
- Seanad: Broadband Infrastructure Bill 2008: Second Stage (22 Oct 2008)
Nicky McFadden: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Nicky McFadden: That is outrageous.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2008)
Nicky McFadden: I did not expect to be called; I thank the Cathaoirleach for his indulgence. I concur with the call from my colleague, Senator Healy-Eames, that we would have an urgent debate on education. I had calls from the principal of the local secondary school in Athlone yesterday and his main concern is in regard to teacher substitution. Come next January, when people are suffering from influenza...