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Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. We have had an opportunity to discuss the issue on a number of occasions recently and it is always important that we continue to discuss the various changes that are taking place. Health is an extremely emotive issue. As a result, the notion of change within the system as it is delivered generates a considerable amount of fear. Some...

Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)

Timmy Dooley: If the Fine Gael Party is in Government, will it reverse the reconfiguration decisions that have been put forward by the HSE? If it does not, will the Deputies concerned resign from their party? That will clearly set out whether people are playing politics with the issue. They are two simple questions and they should be asked.

Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)

Timmy Dooley: Will Deputy Breen answer the question I asked before he sits down?

Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)

Timmy Dooley: Hear, hear. That is a good question.

Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements (10 Mar 2009)

Timmy Dooley: There is and it is over there.

Industrial Development Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 Mar 2009)

Timmy Dooley: We are broad Europeans.

Industrial Development Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 Mar 2009)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I begin by welcoming the Bill but I also take this opportunity to clear up some of the inaccuracies and misinformation that have been generated in the House today. I am sure this misinformation has arisen because Members have been anxious to put forward the best interests of their constituencies. However, it is important to set the...

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2009)

Timmy Dooley: The Deputy should get his own party in order first.

Leaders' Questions (7 Apr 2009)

Timmy Dooley: Deputy Kenny had a mandate for the last election.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Timmy Dooley: The Deputy should apologise.

Cystic Fibrosis: Motion (9 Apr 2009)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this important debate. I have raised the matter on the Adjournment on at least one occasion. It is an opportune time to discuss it again. As a number of Deputies indicated, the matter has been brought to central focus in the past number of days because of matters evolving at St. Vincent's Hospital. Although some people might be concerned about...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Medical Corps: Defence Forces Medical Corps (6 May 2009)

Timmy Dooley: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has received advice from the Chief of Staff or the director of the Defence Forces medical corps on the use of laser eye surgery; when the Defence Forces will introduce guidelines as to the suitability of this treatment for serving troops or future possible recruits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17753/09]

Written Answers — Drug Testing Programme: Drug Testing Programme (6 May 2009)

Timmy Dooley: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Defence the changes he has made to the Defence Forces drug testing programme; the number of personnel tested under the programme in 2008 and to date in 2009; the number and rank of those who tested positive; the type and class of drugs detected; the action taken when a member tests positive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17752/09]

Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (7 May 2009)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate and like Deputy Cregan, I believe there has been an effort by some in the Opposition - I do not want to tar everybody with the same brush - to misrepresent the facts. The Minister's contribution last night sought to clarify as best he could the position and other speakers have been helpful in that regard. The needs of children with...

Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 May 2009)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on this important legislation. This Bill is necessary, as the Minister has identified, to ensure that our port companies are allowed to develop in a commercial manner, recognising the strategic importance of our ports to an island nation such as ours. The Bill is also necessary to give effect to certain aspects of Government policy set...

Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 May 2009)

Timmy Dooley: Deputy O'Dowd will be well aware that members who were appointed to boards by his side of the House would readily give the same viewpoint.

Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 May 2009)

Timmy Dooley: Those I know certainly would.

Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 May 2009)

Timmy Dooley: We owe them a great debt of gratitude. It behoves all of us on whatever side of the House, regardless of the voting intentions of persons on State boards, not to seek to undermine their work and input on behalf of the State. The important aspect of the Bill is to ensure that the commercial ethos to which I referred develops. Of the various ports, the port with which I am most familiar is...

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 May 2009)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to address the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009 and the provisions which the Minister and his Department are bringing before the House on an ongoing basis to deal with the cultural and historical issues in our society which affect the lives of many people. While some in this House dispute the effectiveness of this legislation in regard to crime,...

Order of Business (11 Jun 2009)

Timmy Dooley: Good man yourself, Deputy.