Results 1-20 of 21 for waste management speaker:Liam Twomey

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Jan 2016)

Liam Twomey: ...Minister, Deputy Varadkar, credit. He is not only changing policy in the Department of Health, he is doing something more. He is funding the change to policies to allow this to happen. We are funding diabetic care management programmes and asthma programmes in primary care. We are genuinely making an attempt to deal with this for what it is, that is to say, a crisis that is about to...

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (20 Mar 2013)

Liam Twomey: ...what is best for people with mental health issues. Those people know their illnesses well, but they are also vulnerable. The commission has made a difference. If we are to be progressive in how we manage health, we should establish a patient safety authority that would consider questions of eligibility for accessing services. The medical card is not just about GP care. It also...

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: ...they can come into the House and speak as if they personally had nothing to do with the ruination of our economy in recent years. It is extraordinary, but what is more extraordinary is the way we have managed to present a budget that does not cut social welfare rates or increase income tax. Our economy is fragile and our recovery is slow, but for the third year in government we have...

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)

Liam Twomey: ...people who depend on their support. Like many Members, we are not happy with the cuts to home help and care packages for the most vulnerable. The health service, however, is difficult to manage properly. There is no shortage of critical issues in health. These critical issues are constantly competing to become the most urgent issue for the Government of the day. If we look through the...

Hospital Services (13 Jul 2011)

Liam Twomey: ...If the cath lab in Waterford is closed, patients will be lying on beds in hospitals in Kilkenny, Clonmel and Wexford waiting to be transferred by ambulance to Dublin. Not only will this lead to a waste of resources in hospitals in the south east but patients will also be put at increased risk of having another cardiac event. A patient not treated in a timely manner will be left with more...

Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)

Liam Twomey: ...benefits, they will affect every person drawing a salary, whether in the public or private sector. Unless we all face up to the changes required, we will be left with no choice in the matter. The waste within the health service, the area I know best, is unbelievable. PPARS was a classic example. A computer system that cost €240 million was then just switched off and forgotten about....

Seanad: Role of Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Statements (18 May 2010)

Liam Twomey: ...restrict how the news is delivered in a First World country such as this, in which people have ready access to the Internet, mobile phones and terrestrial and satellite television? It would be a waste of time. How would the Minister of State consider restricting access to certain programmes? It cannot be done. Twenty years ago, if people wanted to obtain pornography in this country...

Seanad: Pre-Budget Outlook: Statements (1 Dec 2009)

Liam Twomey: ...who would make their own choices and who should have been on their knees blessing themselves for the great Government in place according to Mr. Parlon are now in negative equity, provided they have managed to hold on to their jobs and homes. It is a sad state of affairs in which we find ourselves. The issue of where we go from here is equally important. If next week's budget involves...

Seanad: The Economy: Statements (23 Sep 2009)

Liam Twomey: ...may not be Government policy. We are not really supporting tax increases at this moment in time, which means we have to make more cuts. The scale of the cuts needed to bring our economy back to a manageable level is of the magnitude of somewhere between €5 billion and €6 billion. That is the sort of figure involved, so I would appreciate it if the Minister of State could outline how...

Seanad: Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2009)

Liam Twomey: It reflects the fact that one can find oneself out on one's ear fairly quickly. It is said that one is not a real politician until one has won and lost an election. I managed to achieve that fairly quickly. However, continuing to pay a ministerial pension to a sitting TD on a substantial salary was not right and needed to be addressed. That is the sort of thing that gives the public a bad...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2009 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (28 May 2009)

Liam Twomey: ...indication the Government has a plan. Since the general election, the Government has borrowed in excess of €30 billion just for day-to-day spending. With the establishment of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, the Government proposes the introduction of €90 billion worth of Government bonds. A sizeable percentage of those will cover what are merely junk assets, complete...

Seanad: Forthcoming Budget: Statements (26 Mar 2009)

Liam Twomey: ...Hanafin, who is present, is one of those who tried to make out that we should see our indebtedness as a type of buffer. It is a buffer, but it is a very small buffer and one that should not be wasted in the next year or two to get us out of the current financial crisis. The debt of the Irish people is the equivalent of our GNP, which is the one we should use. The debt of the State will...

Seanad: OECD Report on Integrated Public Service Reform: Statements (2 Jul 2008)

Liam Twomey: We have an excellent Civil Service and public service. We may at times criticise senior management in the public service, for example in the HSE, as well as other aspects of the public service and Civil Service. However, the greatest problem has been the particularly bad political leadership in the past decade. It is regrettable that there have been so many lost opportunities as pointed...

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (14 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: ...to the establishment of small hospitals dotted across the country that will duplicate the services these centres of excellence are intended to provide. That is where one sees resources being wasted. That might not have been too bad during the boom times, when the Government could afford itself the luxury of squandering our resources, but now it must make a decision. Does the Government...

Seanad: Patient Safety: Statements (22 Apr 2008)

Liam Twomey: ...country are examining clinical governance issues and such issues are also being examined by most HSE administrators in regard to the services they provide. Will the Minister indicate the number of management or administrative governance issues under examination in the HSE to ascertain if money is being wasted? We are constantly being told by Fianna Fáil representatives that the HSE is...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2007)

Liam Twomey: Listening to the concert coming from the Government benches regarding the Health Service Executive, it is misplaced to make a virtue out of penalising patients. Last month, senior management in the HSE paid themselves significant bonuses. This month, we are told, the problems in the HSE are due to the failure of senior management to understand their own budgets. How can someone pay himself...

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: ...ago? This is not just happening in County Wexford, it is happening right across the country where similar stories can be heard in every single constituency of ineptitude, complacency and downright waste of money by people who are supposed to be running the health service on behalf of the people of Ireland. That is what the Minister is overseeing, as part of the Government. She is not...

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion. (16 May 2006)

Liam Twomey: These Ministers must face up to their responsibilities. Those of us whose children attend school can see that boards of management, parents and teachers do an excellent job. Our children come home and try to use Irish words they have learned in school. These teachers do more to help the Irish language than the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and his legislation requiring...

Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (30 Mar 2006)

Liam Twomey: ...Bill is processed we need a clear answer on whether the patients currently going through the courts looking for refunds for private nursing home charges on the basis of the 2001 legislation are wasting their time or if they will succeed. If they succeed we may be here next year or the year after thinking that the €400 million or €500 million now under consideration is very small...

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (26 Jan 2005)

Liam Twomey: ...report was published. It has now cropped up in the Chamber as if it was something new and unique when it is not. The Capita report identified system-wide problems as affecting bed and patient management in acute facilities. A group of experts got together and wrote that report in which they identified a shortage of acute beds, a high rate of bed occupancy, acute beds being blocked by...