Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)

I join with others in congratulating Dr. Paisley on his retirement. He was a frightening ogre in my childhood and youth but however slowly it came about he should take a bow today because he negotiated in the end and that must be noted, unlike the entrenched position taken by the Minister, Deputy Mary Harney, with pharmacists. Like me, many Members are concerned about the slow death we are now likely to see in rural Ireland——