Results 3,261-3,280 of 4,810 for speaker:Liam Twomey
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (19 Dec 2012)
Liam Twomey: To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken by the Health Service Executive to ensure that nurses have access to six weeks adaptation placement courses available in a recognised paediatric hospital to allow nurses to upskill and receive An Bord Altranais registration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57342/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (19 Dec 2012)
Liam Twomey: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that paediatric nurses who wish to come back to nursing cannot get An Bord Altranais registration because there are no adaptation placement courses available for them and therefore they are not allowed work as nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57343/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Dec 2012)
Liam Twomey: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure equal access to general practitioner services in all Health Service Executive regions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57358/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Dec 2012)
Liam Twomey: To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct all hospitals to abolish catchment areas, publish the waiting time for all consultants and publish the efficiency measurements of all hospitals in view of the fact that this will allow general practitioners to refer to the most efficient hospitals and drive the concept of money follows the patient; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Cost (20 Dec 2012)
Liam Twomey: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a private ambulance was called to transfer a patient from Waterford Regional Hospital at a cost of €900, when a wheelchair taxi at a cost of €120 was satisfactory; the cost controls the VHI are implementing to control this unnecessary cost on VHI subscribers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57454/12]
- Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)
Liam Twomey: It is important when Members of the Opposition speak that they should follow through on what their policy preferences would lead to in this country and what would be the consequences of their actions. It was interesting to listen to the previous speaker, Deputy Boyd Barrett. He gave lots of nuggets of information but he did not follow through on what would happen if his policies were...
- Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)
Liam Twomey: Would the Deputy invest his money simply to throw it away? The Deputy has investments so I presume he would think carefully about what he does. He does not simply toss them away on a whim. Why would he expect anybody else not to weigh up the risks? Everybody who invests looks at low risk, medium risk and high risk investments. In fact, there is a sense that people are moving into...
- Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2013)
Liam Twomey: I was a Member when the HSE was established and, at the time, we had high hopes for what it might achieve. Unfortunately, the former Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney, did not have great clarity of purpose as to what she wanted the HSE to achieve. The HSE ran into several problems in subsequent years which the then Minister was able to deal with by increasing the budget by...
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (6 Feb 2013)
Liam Twomey: I would like to ask the Minister of State the current status in terms of opening a renal dialysis unit at Wexford General Hospital. The physical infrastructure for housing the dialysis unit is up and ready. It seems some legal hold up is stopping patients from being able to have their renal dialysis carried out in Wexford General Hospital. At present, patients have to travel to Waterford...
- Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (6 Feb 2013)
Liam Twomey: I ask the Minister of State to convey to the HSE that it could be more imaginative in how it is dealing with this issue. It could provide haemodialysis until this legal issue is resolved. I am sure it could even put forward a short-term tendering contract to provide haemodialysis at Wexford General Hospital until this legal issue is resolved. My suspicion is that the HSE is not so much...
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)
Liam Twomey: The previous Government on behalf of the sovereign State of Ireland signed contracts which bind us to the promissory notes. Those who are prepared to support the Technical Group in a vote on this motion should be prepared to tell the people of Ireland the consequences for them of defaulting on the €3.1 billion payment.
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)
Liam Twomey: There will be consequences. Many Members opposite are either deliberating misleading the people of this country-----
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)
Liam Twomey: -----or are financially ignorant of what is happening in saying-----
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)
Liam Twomey: -----that we can default on this repayment and walk away.
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)
Liam Twomey: That is nonsense. It will be interesting to know the Members of this House who would like to see Ireland default-----
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)
Liam Twomey: -----leaving us unable to meet social welfare payments or nurses' and teachers' pay.
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)
Liam Twomey: Deputy Mattie McGrath was previously a member of Government at which time he made decisions on behalf of the people of Ireland, about which they were not too happy.
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)
Liam Twomey: If we go the road suggested by Deputies opposite we will end up like Argentina in the early 1990s.
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)
Liam Twomey: There is a huge amount of foreign direct investment in Ireland and we are moving as a country to being a massive exporter. Do Members opposite believe that having just recovered our reputation, which was on the ground only a short while ago, this Government is going to risk ruining it again? Some of the arguments being made by Members opposite are morally and politically irresponsible....
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)
Liam Twomey: The Technical Group is trying to gain some notoriety by way of this nonsensical motion. I do not believe that Deputy Mattie McGrath, who is also a business person, actually believes his own nonsense.