Results 121-140 of 459 for speaker:Phil Prendergast

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Phil Prendergast: I move amendment No. 7: In page 4, subsection (1), to delete lines 10 to 15. The developer should be required to indicate on the planning application and in all brochures what are intended to be the common areas to ensure there will not be any scope for subsequent changes, for example, to prevent a developer from subsequently building on park viewed by owners as part of common areas.

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Phil Prendergast: I move amendment No. 19: In page 5, subsection (1)(b), line 12, after "unit" to insert the following: "and (c) the purchaser has supplied his or her residential address to the owners' management company and has undertaken to notify the company of any future changes in address". This is to facilitate enforcement of charges.

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Phil Prendergast: I am happy with the Minister's reply.

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Phil Prendergast: I move amendment No. 22: In page 5, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following subsection: "(3) On closing of a unit sale prior to completion of the development, the developer shall pay 5 per cent of the purchase prices to the owners' management company which shall hold such sum in trust for the developer until the development is completed.". This was in the original Law Reform...

Seanad: Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2010)

Phil Prendergast: I thought it was being taken with amendment No. 34.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2010)

Phil Prendergast: I wish to appraise the Leader of the fact there is a waiting list for palliative care in County Kildare and that the providing facility is short seven staff. St. John's in Sligo has had to close beds owing to staff shortages. The moratorium is affecting the elderly, the intellectually disabled, and step-down and rehabilitation facilities, to mention a few. The Labour Court has recorded...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Phil Prendergast: I refer to the comment of the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, that any child who needs an SNA will have one. He stated this emphatically in the same week that I received representations from a headmistress and a parent whose child has unstable type 1 diabetes. The child had the services of an SNA for 32 hours a week but, in the wisdom of the Department of Health...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)

Phil Prendergast: I thank Senator Norris for sharing time with me on what I realise is an important subject. I will try not to repeat any of the points that have already been made, but I want to share some of my experiences. I was contacted by a lady who had one child and was due a second. Her first child, who was in school, was aged five years and a diabetic who was severely dependent on insulin. The child...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Phil Prendergast: They are not carried out without research.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2010)

Phil Prendergast: I join Senators Fitzgerald and O'Toole in welcoming the inquiry into the barbaric practice of symphysiotomies. As a midwife and nurse, I am in a position to state such procedures should not have been carried out at the time at which they were. It is only correct that there should be a full scale inquiry into why such procedures were carried out. It has been a tempestuous few weeks in the...

Seanad: Cancer Awareness: Statements (17 Feb 2010)

Phil Prendergast: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Áine Brady. I also welcome a former colleague, former Senator Kathleen O'Meara, and the team from the Irish Cancer Society who are present. I thank them for the work they do in raising awareness and thank them as well for the statistics brief they provided. As those have been well flagged already, I will not repeat them. In my former work as a...

Seanad: Cancer Awareness: Statements (17 Feb 2010)

Phil Prendergast: The boys, yes. We very much welcome that the restaurant here is now preparing the menus decided by the "Operation Transformation" team and Dr. Eva Orsmond. This is something Mr. Don Rice and his team have taken on board and that option will continue in the restaurant. Yesterday we had the honour of having four of the five leaders who are undergoing the programme on television at present...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Phil Prendergast: I welcome former Senator Kathleen O'Meara and the representatives from the Irish Cancer Society and I look forward to the coming debate. I have a very serious question for the Leader. It relates to the reconfiguration of hospital services in the south east, in particular the hospital in Clonmel. Recently it was announced that 49 acute beds in the psychiatric unit were to be closed. These...

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (10 Feb 2010)

Phil Prendergast: I thank Senator Hannigan for sharing time with me and welcome the Minister of State. I wish to add to Senator Hannigan's comments on the position in his own area of County Meath by outlining the situation as it affects the people of south Tipperary, in particular Carrick-on-Suir and Tipperary town. Since the bubble hit the fan after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the...

Seanad: Head Shops: Statements (3 Feb 2010)

Phil Prendergast: It is CUH.

Seanad: Head Shops: Statements (3 Feb 2010)

Phil Prendergast: I welcome the Minister and the recent statement in the Dáil from the Minister of State, Deputy John Curran, who has charge of the national drugs strategy. He indicated that bringing head shops under a stricter regulatory code was being examined. He referred to the Minister, Deputy Harney, with responsibility for the Misuse of Drugs Act. I was somewhat surprised by this because it is...

Seanad: Head Shops: Statements (3 Feb 2010)

Phil Prendergast: One year later, another inquest found another type of magic mushroom, not banned, was responsible for the death of another young man. It is very difficult to isolate products. I acknowledge and accept this is a very difficult area to police. However, we have entered a new decade and we need a comprehensive response. We do not have such a response yet because the issue is still being...

Seanad: Head Shops: Statements (3 Feb 2010)

Phil Prendergast: I wait with baited breath. This issue is very serious and the social cost cannot be underestimated. There is a real threat that the recession and the savage attack on young people in the past two budgets will lead to an increase in drug use. This time we will not be able to afford the necessary response to young people becoming dependent on drugs or engaging in anti-social behaviour....

Seanad: Hospital Services (20 Jan 2010)

Phil Prendergast: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Moloney, for attending the House to take this matter. I sought this debate to register the anger of Tipperary people at a plan that was announced last week to close the county's only acute mental health facility. I am talking about the entire county, comprising both the North and South Ridings. It is the only county in Ireland which is so divided....

Seanad: Hospital Services (20 Jan 2010)

Phil Prendergast: Well it is an untruth in this regard.