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Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy: Motion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2011)

Liam Twomey: As the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food stated last night, there are still no detailed proposals from the European Commission on the future of the CAP and they are not expected to be published until next month. This debate may, therefore, be a little premature. Working off leaked documents is not always the best way to go forward. The Minister and his officials will fight our...

European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Liam Twomey: I wish to share my time with Deputy Paschal Donohoe.

European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Liam Twomey: I too support this legislation. This country is fighting to get its sovereignty back, but the reality is that the future of Europe requires greater economic integration. We know the political reality that greater integration with a reduction in sovereignty may not be acceptable to the people. It would also require a new European Union treaty, which makes the prospect of greater economic...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Oct 2011)

Liam Twomey: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the six-month delay in processing family income supplement applications is preventing those on social welfare from taking up low-paid or part-time employment, where they would also be entitled to FIS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27788/11]

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Liam Twomey: It is very easy to play schoolyard politics when those opposite attempt to have a meaningful debate during Private Members' time. However, they are spanceled by an ideology which opposes but offers no solution. All this talk about anti-capitalism and so on from them gets a bit boring after a while. In case any Members opposite do not understand what I mean by being spanceled by ideology, I...

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Liam Twomey: Deputy Healy-Rae should know what it means. That sums up how backward this motion is. What are those opposite saying? They want to reverse the downgrade, reverse the plan and reverse the announcement. They are reversing themselves into a political cul-de-sac because they are offering nothing to the people who elected them to this House. They have no innovation or solutions.

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Liam Twomey: It is not always about money. The health service changes all the time. I know that because I worked in it for long enough. In case Deputy Boyd Barrett has not noticed, we do not have any money.

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Liam Twomey: I would like to know what those opposite believe we should do about the future of primary care. What changes should we make in disease prevention, health promotion and patient safety? Do they believe we should leave these nursing homes, which HIQA wants to close, open? Do they believe we should leave elderly patients at risk? Do they believe we should abolish HIQA? What is their view on...

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Liam Twomey: -----or the emergencies we saw GPs deal with in the past in Donegal. They have absolutely nothing to say about those matters. Neither have they anything to say about the way we are changing the role of pharmacists, GPs and practice nurses to deal with chronic care management. The Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, have a vision in this regard but those opposite have...

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Liam Twomey: For the record, there is no contradiction in what I am saying.

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Liam Twomey: The Deputy should show us the record. He is making it up.

European Council: Statements (2 Nov 2011)

Liam Twomey: For God's sake, it was Deputy Higgins who mentioned dictators.

Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)

Liam Twomey: The Deputy is not offering a solution.

Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)

Liam Twomey: There is no doubt that this is a political and economic crisis across the 17 nations of the eurozone. Many of the comments tonight make the issue out to be simplistic and basic and suggest it is a question of whether we pay or do not pay our bondholders. They suggest that somehow the Government does not have a clue what is going on in Europe and that it is responsible for this awful mess....

Developments in the Eurozone: Statements (Resumed) (2 Nov 2011)

Liam Twomey: The Deputy and his party understood the concept of what I am talking about when they were in government, but they seem to have forgotten it purely for simplistic, populist reasons. As a group that considers itself a serious Opposition party, perhaps it should defend policies that it claims were its own when it was in government, although our implementation of those policies is substantially...

Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2011)

Liam Twomey: It took firm action all right; it brought in the IMF.

Health (Provision of General Practitioner Services) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2011)

Liam Twomey: I wish to share time with Deputy Coffey.

Health (Provision of General Practitioner Services) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2011)

Liam Twomey: I have the honour of being one of those who can get up in the middle of the night to see patients. Unlike the vet, tiredness and fatigue are not options if one is a general practitioner. If one makes a mess of it as a GP, one cannot write it off as another cow or a calf. It is far more serious than this and I am sure Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan knows exactly what I am talking about. This...

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (15 Nov 2011)

Liam Twomey: Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of positions on State boards and agencies under his aegis which he has advertised in the past seven months; the number of applications received; the number of applicants subsequently appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34506/11]

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (15 Nov 2011)

Liam Twomey: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of positions on State boards and agencies under his aegis which he has advertised in the past seven months; the number of applications received; the number of applicants subsequently appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34505/11]