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Seanad: Provision of Health Services by the HSE: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2010)

Liam Twomey: Deputy Healy-Rae will give the Senator a ring sometime during the week.

Seanad: Provision of Health Services by the HSE: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2010)

Liam Twomey: Twenty minutes.

Seanad: Provision of Health Services by the HSE: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2010)

Liam Twomey: Both.

Seanad: Provision of Health Services by the HSE: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2010)

Liam Twomey: Is the Minister not obliged to answer questions?

Seanad: Provision of Health Services by the HSE: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2010)

Liam Twomey: On a point of order, does a Minister have a responsibility to answer questions put by Members of the House?

Seanad: Provision of Health Services by the HSE: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2010)

Liam Twomey: That means a Minister has no responsibility to answer questions put. It is unbelievable.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2010: Motion (29 Sep 2010)

Liam Twomey: The first question everybody in the House would like to have answered is what the Minister intends to do in 13 weeks if he intends to extend the scheme six days after Christmas. Will that be done around budget time or will there be another emergency session of both Houses after Christmas to extend the guarantee? Why was that date picked since it is during the holiday period? Our party...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2010: Motion (29 Sep 2010)

Liam Twomey: I thought there was a provision whereby if the Minister is in this House-----

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2010: Motion (Resumed) (29 Sep 2010)

Liam Twomey: What about Anglo Irish Bank and AIB?

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2010: Motion (Resumed) (29 Sep 2010)

Liam Twomey: I would like to hear the Senator's views on AIB.

Seanad: National Economy: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Liam Twomey: The news being announced on the airwaves just adds to the calamitous situation we are facing for the next couple of years. I want to focus on three major issues that are important for our recovery and perhaps the Minister of State might reply to some of the issues being raised, because they are important, in addition to some of the matters we are reading about today on banking. There are...

Seanad: National Economy: Statements (30 Sep 2010)

Liam Twomey: It has certainly committed taxpayers to paying for commitments entered into by the Government for the next 30 years, never mind the next four. The other point the Minister made this morning was that the budget in December would be much harsher than the public was expecting. It is only common sense to cancel any more bond issues before the end of the year because what the bondholders would be...

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)

Liam Twomey: It is his party's job to govern.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)

Liam Twomey: I want to speak about what I have heard. What Senator Harris spoke is cant dressed up as rhetoric. If Fianna Fáil was so interested-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)

Liam Twomey: I will seek a debate on this. If Fianna Fáil was so interested in protecting this country, why do we not have a reverse Tallaght strategy? Why does Fianna Fáil not present its four-year plan, go to the people and then offer its support to the new Government? We all know that what will happen when Fianna Fáil comes back into power is it will continue with the same old nonsense, which it...

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)

Liam Twomey: -----how to work consensus politics in this country if it is necessary. I would not take too much from what the Department of Finance is saying. It is the same Department that has been advising the Minister, Deputy Brian Lenihan, for the past two years on his banking policy, which is turning out to be more like a Monty Python film than high finance. Two years ago the Minister told us it was...

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)

Liam Twomey: Does the Senator mean it is only a myth?

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)

Liam Twomey: The Government was made a fool of.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)

Liam Twomey: That is what we need - a new mandate.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)

Liam Twomey: I am reminded of the Leader's prophecy on house prices.