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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Liam Twomey: We will now move on to the latest eurozone developments and future implications for the euro currency. I welcome Mr. Colm McCarthy, economist, and Professor Frank Barry, economist at Trinity College, Dublin. The format of the meeting is that our witnesses will make their opening remarks in the order in which they were introduced and that will be followed by a questions and answers session....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Liam Twomey: Mr. McCarthy has made some interesting comments. Does he accept that the Irish bailout programme has worked for any number of reasons and not because of austerity? I refer to Mr. McCarthy's interesting point about Greece. He has said that when people see no light at the end of the tunnel, they will eventually vote for a more radical solution. We are talking about the politics of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Liam Twomey: If the Greek interest payments were at the same percentage of GDP as ours-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Liam Twomey: At least it should be sustainable in the short term in order that they can work through-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Liam Twomey: When we started our programme, we had to negotiate and then renegotiate. Greece went to plan B.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Latest Eurozone Developments and Future Implications for Euro Currency: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Liam Twomey: On behalf of the committee, I thank Mr. McCarthy and Professor Barry for participating. The meeting went on for a little longer than I had expected, but it was very interesting.

Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (23 Sep 2015)

Liam Twomey: Deputy Halligan is sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Clare Daly.

Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (23 Sep 2015)

Liam Twomey: That is correct.

Topical Issue Matters (23 Sep 2015)

Liam Twomey: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Jim Daly - the need to publish the review of the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) Act as a matter of urgency; (2) Deputy Brendan Smith - the need to discuss the response to the humanitarian and...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Sep 2015)

Liam Twomey: The health service has been and always will be made up of urgent issues waiting for the next emergency. Deputy Kelleher and his party, who collapsed the economy of this country, did nothing to help to improve that situation. If there is one thing that the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, should be given credit for it is that he is starting to change the mindset within the health...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Sep 2015)

Liam Twomey: It does not work quite as well as the Deputy thinks. I know that it was a former Minister for Health, Mary Harney, who introduced the NTPF and while it works up to a point, it does not quite work in the way that is needed. The Minister has introduced a number of changes into the community health care sector, most notably the community health care organisations. Under this system, each...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Sep 2015)

Liam Twomey: No, actually, it happened under Fianna Fáil's watch.

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Sep 2015)

Liam Twomey: Fianna Fáil, when it set up the HSE and its structures, institutionalised a form of management within the HSE under which people are afraid to explain why they make the decisions they make. This is now changing.

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Sep 2015)

Liam Twomey: Thank you. I could not quite hear with all of the interruptions.

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Sep 2015)

Liam Twomey: Deputy Kelleher and his party must take responsibility for the mistakes they made and acknowledge what the current Minister for Health is doing. He is changing the mindset within the health service. We are doing the right things for the future. We must have disease prevention, chronic care management programmes and so forth. We are treating 25,000 patients in the community who would...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Sep 2015)

Liam Twomey: The Deputy has no credibility on this issue.

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Sep 2015)

Liam Twomey: The Deputy's party broke-----

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Sep 2015)

Liam Twomey: And who has been in the Dáil since 2002 and has seen what Fianna Fáil did to the country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislation (30 Sep 2015)

Liam Twomey: Before we begin, I ask the witnesses to bear with us as we need to record in public some earlier recommendations by the EU sub-committee. I refer to recording of decisions taken by the joint sub-committee on EU scrutiny at its meeting on 23 September 2015 for noting on the public record. By way of information for members, the sub-committee on EU scrutiny, at its meeting last week on 23...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Sep 2015)

Liam Twomey: On the Estimates for the Office of Public Works, Vote 13, for the year ending 31 December 2015, I welcome Ms Clare McGrath, chairperson of the OPW. Ms McGrath is accompanied by Mr. Mick Long, accountant and Mr. Tony Smyth, director of engineering services. On part 1, structure and purpose of the meeting, there have been ongoing efforts within the Oireachtas committees to improve the way that...