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Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: Under the Veterinary Practice Act 2005, the protections afforded to cats and dogs in veterinary clinics are better than the protections the Minister is prepared to say she is responsible for affording to patients in hospitals and nursing homes. Cats and dogs are more protected than patients in hospitals and nursing homes. Private companies are fined in the courts, but people die in nursing...

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: This is a significant issue.

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister should be interested in what happens in the health services. It seems to be thrown onto the Garda Síochána and the Government does not care about it anymore. This is the reason we need a patient safety authority so that when the Minister and I are no longer in politics and have moved on to other areas, some legacy will be left behind to protect patients. We cannot absolve...

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: I do not think the Minister will last much longer. I call on her to outline the standards. Her record on protection and the implementation of standards is poor.

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: The standards that will be used by the social services inspectorate. I do not refer to the legislation setting them up.

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: The HSE was set up under the Health Act 2004 and came into existence on 1 January 2005. Part 9 of that Act covers complaints from patients about standards of care within the HSE. At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health and Children in November 2006, nearly two years later, a HSE official admitted the HSE was still waiting for the Minister to sign off on the regulations governing...

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: The proposed legislation clearly states the majority of services being provided such as hospitals are not covered.

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: And public hospitals.

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: The point I make is the social services inspectorate should cover all facilities where health services are being provided because patients are at risk in all institutions. Frances Sheridan and PJ Walsh were not in nursing homes when they lost their lives.

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister should not be so dismissive.

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: Is the Minister saying Frances Sheridan and PJ Walsh were casualties of the health care service?

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister is aware of what I am talking about and she should not dismiss those deaths so casually.

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: I am not scaremongering. They are serious concerns.

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: The point has been clearly made. I hope the Minister will take on board some of the facts we have highlighted. HIQA is not a patient safety protection agency. Its remit is far too broad and it will not work. The Minister must separate out the social services inspectorate and combine it with the mental health commission to set up a proper patient safety authority. Perhaps the Minister...

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: They probably do.

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister probably did not go to find out.

Cancer Services: Motion. (31 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: I wish to share time with Deputies Enright and McGinley.

Cancer Services: Motion. (31 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: It is sometimes depressing to stand on this side of the House and listen to the Government justify what it has not done. In some respects, it is like watching the Government get away with murder. Some of what has been said tonight reinforces that point. In the course of the Minister's speech, she tried to claim success for a gross failure. She tried to say that her announcement of the...

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: I move: "That Dáil Éireann, aware of: the fall in the number of acute hospital beds in Ireland up to 2001; the fact that over 40,000 elective operations have been cancelled in the past two and a half years; the cancellation of emergency surgery due to lack of ICU and HDU bed capacity at St. James's Hospital; the fall in the percentage of people eligible for medical cards; the shortage of...

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: As the Dáil will sit for just eight more weeks before the general election, it is important that the Opposition should continue to highlight its concerns about the health service, while outlining its solutions to such problems. The Government's failure to reform the health service, after ten years in office, has landed us with an awful legacy. As I said last week, the Government has no...