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Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I would like to think they could not.

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I do not see, in the new section 95, where it is stated that a licensee must surrender a licence. It states that a person may surrender it and that the EPA may refuse to take it.

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: Anything that reduces legal costs is very worthy.

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I move amendment No. 38: In page 62, lines 20 and 21, to delete "or was not being complied with in any respect". I did not table this amendment because I favour any disrespect for the licences people may hold, but because it is a serious issue for a company to be cited in the Environmental Protection Agency book as not having complied with its licence. Should we try to make more of an effort...

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: No, particularly as it would not be accepted. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Section 21 agreed to. SECTION 22.

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I move amendment No. 40: In page 64, line 44, after "before" to insert "after". This section is a very good one. I always like legislation that contains words like "the second activity (irrespective of whether it would otherwise be so regarded) shall be regarded as an activity falling within section 39(1)" and it can then become the first activity. It is very useful because people may have...

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: That seems to be what I want.

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: The applicant is in a position to get the EPA's advice beforehand.

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I am sorry, I misread the section.

Seanad: Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (25 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: Senator Burke spoke very sensibly. The real problem is to try to get people involved in recycling. The Minster is right when he talks about the difference in incineration 20 years ago and today. People are always asking me to appeal on health grounds with a view to preventing incinerators being built but that is becoming impossible with modern incinerators. The real problem is that with...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Second Stage. (19 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I also welcome the Minister and I warmly welcome the Bill, which is long overdue. It is difficult to understand why a previous Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform did not bring it forward at an earlier stage, particularly when one reads so much of the good sense in the 1978 Henchy report that was incorporated into the Bill. I am grateful to the Minister for doing so, because it has...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Second Stage. (19 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: Could a provision also be included in the Bill for a change to the relevant ministerial order? The most commonly used legislation under which prisoners are transferred is the Central Lunatic Asylum (Ireland) Act 1845. Four other pieces of legislation are used, the most recent of which dates from 1912. Perhaps we could add this matter to the Bill. Some of those affected by this procedure are...

Seanad: Cancer Screening Programme: Motion. (19 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I also welcome the Minister to the House. I am very glad he has been able to visit the Central Mental Hospital. I asked the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Tim O'Malley, to go there and the fact that the Minister also went is marvellous. I am quite sure he will have been as horrified as I was by the conditions there. To return to the subject in hand, I speak...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Scrapie Genotyping Project. (18 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: It was the sad death, at such an early age, of Dolly, the first cloned sheep, that made me think of the issue of scrapie because I was very interested in the scheme set up by the Minister for Agriculture and Food last year. Scrapie is a fatal degenerative disease affecting the central nervous system of sheep and goats. It is one of the diseases classified as transmissable spongiform...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Scrapie Genotyping Project. (18 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters. - Scrapie Genotyping Project. (18 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I thank the Minister of State. I am pleased the Department is making such progress in this area.

Seanad: Private Business. - The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Charters Amendment) Bill 2002: Second Stage. (12 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I welcome the Bill and hope it has a speedy passage. The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland has an illustrious past and its present and future are even brighter. The work I have seen undertaken in the college, not just in the field of medical education but also in research over the last 30 years, has been quite splendid and I see it going from strength to strength. While it wants to change...

Seanad: Unclaimed Life Assurance Policies Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (12 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: I hope the Minister will accept this amendment. The most important thing Senator Quinn said was that the State will benefit if people do not see they are on one of these lists. We have to make absolutely sure it is available on the Internet because that is the means by which so many people seek information now. The Minister of State, Deputy Gallagher, really made the case for Senator Quinn...

Seanad: Unclaimed Life Assurance Policies Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (12 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: We have arrived at the real issue, namely, the contention that the audience in question is not computer literate and consists of old people, like myself, who will not look at the website. Has the Minister of State considered what happened in the context of the overseas accounts, bogus or otherwise? How often have we read in the newspaper about children, grandchildren or nieces and nephews...

Seanad: Unclaimed Life Assurance Policies Bill 2002: Committee Stage. (12 Feb 2003)

Mary Henry: Will the names appear on the website in Iris Oifigiúil?