Results 241-260 of 4,810 for speaker:Liam Twomey

Written Answers — Humanitarian Situations: Humanitarian Situations (6 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the situation in Sudan; the humanitarian assistance that is being made available to the affected regions in that country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26895/05]

Written Answers — Literacy Levels: Literacy Levels (11 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the percentage of children who leave primary school with literacy difficulties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27580/05]

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (11 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the timescale of the recent report on the Marino Institute; if matters prior to 2002 were considered in drawing up this report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27536/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of times her Department has met with the social services inspectorate since May 2005 in relation to the extension of the social services inspectorate remit to include residential homes for the elderly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27338/05]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 167: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons availing of the over 70s medical card that was introduced in 2001; the number of persons aged over 70 who are on the traditional medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27786/05]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (12 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has issued directives in respect of the completion of local loop unbundling with particular reference to the need to achieve the highest possible availability of broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28046/05]

Written Answers — Post Office Network: Post Office Network (12 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the initiatives he has taken to improve the viability prospects of An Post and post offices in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28074/05]

Accident and Emergency Services. (18 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on the implementation of her accident and emergency ten point plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29479/05]

Accident and Emergency Services. (18 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: There was a danger for some time that the Tánaiste's ten point accident and emergency plan would turn into a ten year plan. I am glad she has focused her attentions on the nub of the problem in the accident and emergency departments in the greater Dublin region. Her reply did not refer to MRI scanners and everything else that went into this ten point plan, but mentioned that she has focused...

Hospital Accommodation. (18 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 95: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the provision of 3,000 acute hospital beds is still Government policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29480/05]

Hospital Accommodation. (18 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: I take it from the Tánaiste's response that the answer to my question whether the provision of 3,000 acute hospital beds continues to be Government policy is "Yes". I offer my condolences to the family of the late Mr. Patrick Walsh. The Tánaiste and I know why the intensive care bed available in the Cavan-Monaghan hospital group was not used. She needs to clarify this aspect of the matter...

Hospital Accommodation. (18 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: My question is quite clear. The former Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Martin, announced in the health strategy, Quality and Fairness — A Health System For You, that an additional 650 acute hospital beds would be provided in our health care system by the end of 2002. That announcement was made before the previous general election, but in October 2005 we have not yet provided that...

Hospital Accommodation. (18 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: Are 1,000 of the 3,000 beds the ones she refers to being developed by the private system?

Hospital Accommodation. (18 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: That was never announced at any stage of the health strategy. While the Tánaiste came up with the figure of 1,000 beds, she must be quite clear where the beds will be located. Will she indicate where she expects these 1,000 beds to be found in a couple of years or what parts of the country are deemed to require them? It is difficult to work out in which public hospitals the beds will be...

Medical Cards. (18 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: I would like the Minister to give a commitment on a few issues regarding the doctor only medical card and the full medical card. The doctor only medical card which is being introduced along side the full medical card is being seen as a means to give some help to those at the margins of entitlement to a medical card. Currently 1.1 million people have a full medical card and many of those...

Medical Cards. (18 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: A certain form of statistical discrimination was introduced into how people were treated if they had a medical card.

Vaccination Programme. (18 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the booster vaccination in the second year of life to prevent haemophilus infection will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28954/05]

Vaccination Programme. (18 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 188: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive took delivery of the Hib booster vaccine and when vaccination will begin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28955/05]

Vaccination Programme. (18 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: Is this a medical lecture?

Vaccination Programme. (18 Oct 2005)

Liam Twomey: The Minister of State has issued a tender for the vaccines. There has been the usual delay of 25 days, although it might have been 52 days had it been a normal tendering process. He has not, therefore, taken ownership of even one of the vaccines yet. That is the problem. A great deal of misleading information has been given. The long story the Minister of State told leading up to this gives a...