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Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: Fine Gael never made that proposal. This is outrageous.

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: This is outrageous. The Senator is aware this has not been proposed by Fine Gael.

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: The Senator is being nonsensical.

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: This is outrageous.

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: Those aged over 70 receive medical cards. Does the Senator suggest that 69 year olds do not become ill?

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: The Diabetes Federation of Ireland disagreed completely.

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: The Diabetes Federation of Ireland disagreed. This is crazy.

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: The Tánaiste only appears three times a year.

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: The health boards have been abolished.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: It is time to remove stamp duty for first-time buyers of second-hand properties. Similarly, people who wish to trade up from their family homes and buy brand new properties will be exempt from stamp duty but they must pay the duty if they buy second-hand properties. Consequently, they are deterred from selling their houses. We should try to maintain a constant roll-over of three or...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: It should be done. I would like to see it there.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: Senator Dardis was going to stop the motorway in the last election and he has not done it. It is to be opened on Thursday.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: I would not.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: I do not think so.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: How does the Senator feel about drunk driving?

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: The Minister, Deputy Harney, has been in office for 19 months and things could not have got worse. She spoke about magic wands when she was appointed but if there ever was a need for a magic wand, it is now. She has managed to make the accident and emergency services crisis worse and has finally admitted that it is a national emergency. Approximately 400 people were on trolleys recently and...

Seanad: Accident and Emergency Services: Statements. (9 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: A country as wealthy as Ireland should provide a far better service. The worst aspect is that members of the public seems to have resigned themselves to believing that nothing can be done. That is an indictment of all of us. Something can be done. I was in Taiwan recently, a country that has the same size population as Ireland, and it has no waiting lists. That proves it can be done. It has a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: Last week I spoke on the need to cap VAT on fuel. Unfortunately no action has been taken. Every day fuel prices continue to increase. When one considers that the weakness of the American dollar is saving us from further increases, one realises how vulnerable we are. Senator Hanafin's point is correct. I repeat my call that the Minister for Finance come here and explain why a cap on fuel VAT...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: The phrase "name and shame" sprung to mind as I heard it on the radio. We need a debate on that. We also need to ask why petrol companies put up prices immediately even though they had stock in hand. Perhaps we could widen Senator Hanafin's call for a debate on that topic. I regret that the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, refused to attend the nurses' conference...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 May 2006)

Fergal Browne: As she is due to listen to us debate accident and emergency services, who better to listen to than the nurses on the front line?