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Written Answers — Capital Projects: Capital Projects (29 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if all Health Service Executive Corporate Plan Capital Projects were completed in 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12054/07]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (29 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the corporate plan capital projects for 2006 were completed on time and in budget with a list of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12055/07]

Light Rail Project. (3 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: Fine Gael has plenty of policies.

Nurses' Dispute: Statements (3 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: Patient safety is a very important issue at the centre of this dispute. Everything must be done to resolve the dispute as quickly as possible to protect patients in the Irish health care system. They must be our foremost concern and we must ensure nobody dies or is put at risk on our wards, increasing the anxiety of families, because we have not done our best to resolve the dispute. Like...

Written Answers — State Airports: State Airports (3 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Transport the basis of his decision to give Cork Airport responsibility for €100 million of its outstanding debt; if this decision contravenes with company law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12703/07]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (3 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: Question 267: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views regarding the adequacy of the ethical framework which applies to persons who have a consultancy relationship with the Health Service Executive; if she has discussed these arrangements with senior officials in the HSE or with the consultants involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12326/07]

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: When the Minister presents amendments so late in the day, we are never quite sure whether they will make a difference or whether they will mean another land-mine that explodes on the next Minister when somebody challenges it in the courts. Cats and dogs remain better protected than patients in the Irish health care system, even after this debate. We still have a long way to travel before...

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Taoiseach was having a Terminator moment.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: We do not want to spread panic through the land at the notion of an election approaching.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: Will there be clear regulations as to where nurses can prescribe?

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: Has An Bord Altranais issued ethical guidelines on prescribing?

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: Maybe he wrote it himself.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: It is a gender thing.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: It is not because he is from Mallow.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: It is back to the future.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: As the Minister noted, the Oireachtas is probably the most unbalanced Parliament from a gender point of view.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: As someone who has held power and authority in the Chamber, has the Minister considered the possibility of allocating a specific number of seats in the House under a list system? The political and electoral systems are structured in such a way as to make it extremely difficult for those with young families to get elected. No one is under any illusions about the amount of work needed to come...

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: This is fairly straightforward. It raises some of the issues to which I referred regarding a joint council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland and the Medical Council. Nothing in the Bill suggests the body that regulates pharmacists must talk to the body that regulates doctors or vice versa. Complaints can be made about either pharmacists or doctors but they are expected to go to...

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: The principle remains the same.

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (4 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: The same concerns have been expressed about patients.