Seanad debates
Wednesday, 28 November 2007
Order of Business (Resumed)
3:00 pm
Geraldine Feeney (Fianna Fail)
I support the call by Senator Ellis for a debate on the carving up of counties by the boundary commission and ask the Leader to arrange a debate on the issue.
I am bewildered by Senator Twomey's call for another debate on cancer services. This would be the third debate on cancer services in two months and the Minister's fifth time in the House in less than two months. Last week she was in the House for three hours. I was in the Dáil Chamber last night and listened to what she had to say. I remind Members that the Mullingar accord, which was agreed before the most recent general election between Fine Gael and the Labour Party — I am glad the Labour Party has not supported the Fine Gael call for a debate — had 12 priorities. Not one of them——
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