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Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: I would prefer to debate the industrial action in the public sector than to engage in more navel gazing on the role of the Seanad and what we should be doing. There are far more pressing problems now and Senator Leyden should be calling for the Leader to arrange a debate on those. Discussions are underway between the Government and the public sector union leadership but the Opposition has no...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: The people will decide.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: On a point of order, in the interruptions I missed Senator Ó Brolcháin state he would hold a debate on the role of the Seanad.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: Is the Senator just talking because he has no power in this place?

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: He should be strong enough to seek that debate.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: These boys are in power. They have taken their 30 pieces of silver. They should be strong enough to seek a debate.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: Obviously, they are not. They are ineffective.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: The Green Party members have no role here, apart from taking the 30 pieces of silver.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: They do not want a debate on that matter either.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: That is the way we feel about it. They got their junior Ministry and they are staying at home on the issue of what happened in the west.

Seanad: Mental Health: Statements. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: It is fitting that, as we speak, Deputy Dan Neville and Miriam O'Callaghan are launching two books related to the issues surrounding suicide and mental illness. I wish them well. I am disturbed at the way we link any success in A Vision for Change to the remnants of a collapsed property market. Any money from the sale of properties in the mental health service in the last four years went...

Seanad: Mental Health: Statements. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: On a point of order, I understood this would be a two way process in regards to the question.

Seanad: Mental Health: Statements. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: I am only asking-----

Seanad: Mental Health: Statements. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: If it is, I invite the Minister of State to come to St. Senan's with me and we can hold a good discussion about what to do with the mental health services in County Wexford.

Seanad: Mental Health: Statements. (23 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: I am asking the Minister of State in a very non-partisan way.

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: I congratulate the new Ministers who are taking up their positions and especially my county colleague Deputy Seán Connick on being appointed a Minister of State. That said, the Taoiseach made a mess of the reshuffle. There has not been a senior Fianna Fáil Minister from County Wexford since the 1960s when Mr. Jim Ryan was Minister for Finance. We have always been critical of this and the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: That must be a record. I would like the Taoiseach to explain why he has left the south east without a senior Minister. We have had discussions in the House about the lack of an air-sea rescue service in the south east. The service was withdrawn recently. There are serious concerns about the under-resourcing of health care services in the region and infrastructural projects being held up....

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Mar 2010)

Liam Twomey: It is not about finance. The Leader should not be so glib.