Bannon, JamesWednesday, 19 October 2005 |
Seanad Eireann Debate
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Order of Business.
I support the amendment to the Order of Business proposed by Senator Brian Hayes and I sincerely hope Senators O’Brien and Wilson will vote for it. It is important that they should in the interest not...
Those sums would provide significant support to the health service if they were properly allocated. Beds, community care facilities and so on could be provided. What the Government is doing is shamefu...
We are waiting eight years for proper health services, which the Government has not delivered. The Government has let the people down.
We want services, not facts.
Home Help Service: Motion.
I move: “That Seanad Éireann, conscious of the valuable and mainly unrecognised work carried out by home helps, calls on the Minister for Health and Children to: —regulate their contracts of employmen...
It is evident in the Senator’s home town of Mullingar where a shell of a building has been left idle.
It has been left idle for 11 years.
That is spin.
The Senator is losing touch.
Where is the evidence?
That is all the Senator is about. Sitting on committees, one after another.
She is a long time delivering them.
There is no talk about delivery.
On a point of order, the Senator referred to my having been a member of a health board.
The health board of which I was a member was controlled by Fianna Fáil.
For the past 20 years all the health boards were controlled by Fianna Fáil.
Yes.
Is that a new sound bite?
Senator Leyden is spinning it again. He is the Roscommon spinner.
I thank the Minister for State for listening to this debate and compliment the Senators who made contributions to it, particularly those from this side of the House. Instead of tabling an amendment to...
Another area, raised by Senator Glynn, who is commenting now ——
Senator Glynn marched in Mullingar with me in protest at the Government’s neglect of health services in the midlands ——
Senator Glynn marched with me in Mullingar ——
He marched in protest at the Government’s ——
Senator Leyden, in the last few minutes, insulted the elderly and home help and he should withdraw that insult.
The Minister failed to supply accurate figures despite promising to do so. Last July, the Tánaiste promised she would clarify the figures. When the Fine Gael spokesman, Deputy Twomey, pointed out that...
The Minister of State spoke about the agreement with the unions, etc., but it has not been implemented. Agreements made with the unions have been reneged on. I know from members of unions that they ar...
It is shameful treatment. I hope, on behalf of carers, the elderly, the sick and the handicapped throughout the country that the Minister of State will take note of what has been said today and implem...
Amendment put.
Voted No
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