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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: I will come back to the Deputy later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: The Deputy should leave time for a reply.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: There are two minutes left in the Deputy's time. He will not get all these questions answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: I will have to ask the Commissioner to stop at some point unless he answers "Yes" or "No," because the Deputy is running out of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: I will allow some latitude. Mr. Moscovici should not worry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: I thank the Commissioner.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: I thank the Commissioner for those comments. I call Deputy Michael McGrath.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: I thank the Commissioner. There is mobile phone interference so I ask that all phones be switched off. Taxation policy was always considered to be within the national remit of each individual country because it was seen as part of their way of keeping their economies competitive through being able to vary their taxation systems. This was because, obviously, for peripheral countries like...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: I thank the Commissioner. We have nearly run out of time and the Commissioner has a deadline.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: We will give the Commissioner a chance to have a cup of coffee before he does that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: On behalf of the joint committee, I thank Mr. Moscovici for participating in this meeting. We hope to see him again in Ireland soon. Perhaps he will not leave it for so long next time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: I propose to suspend briefly before resuming in private session to deal with correspondence and other issues.
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: First and foremost, our sympathies are with the parents of these children and those experiencing many other regrettable outcomes that are happening in our health services every day, unfortunately. Resources make a difference, but for years we have failed to take on board issues around governance, how we manage our health service and how we deliver our health services. All too often, I have...
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: Unfortunately that sort of thinking stayed in the HSE for more than a decade, but it was not an overt policy. Therefore, hospitals such as Portlaoise hospital were being starved of funding but no one quite knew what was the management policy that was being implemented. It was, therefore, only a matter of time before a crisis like this was going to happen. This is a much more proper...
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: That is where Deputy Fitzmaurice is wrong.
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: It is not always about resources. We cannot be doing brain surgery in Roscommon.
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: We cannot be doing major bowel surgery in Roscommon. However, we can safely do other procedures such as what is happening at present. There are no complaints from the consultants or the doctors who are working in Roscommon now, because they know this is-----
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: -----the way medicine should be practised. It was the consultants at Roscommon hospital who reported their own hospital to HIQA.
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: Deputy Fitzmaurice should read it properly and understand properly what is happening. He would learn an awful lot from it.
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: What is that?