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Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: The Senator is all over the place. I should ask her---

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: The Senator is quite confused in what she is saying.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: On a point of order——

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: This is all over the place. The Senator is insulting the sort of work I do. She does not even understand that the Medical Council is changing the guidelines in respect of people getting direct access to specialists.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: She is all over the place in respect of the attacks she is making.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: No, she is not.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: She is all over the place.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: At least we are not using bad language.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: What about the Government?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: Last night the House had an extensive debate on the economy. Will the Leader ask the Taoiseach to come to the House to explain a matter? Since the Health Service Executive was established four years ago, the number of senior managers has doubled, if not tripled. This morning we have learned that the HSE wishes to get rid of 200 of those senior managers. That is not the way to reform a...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: They would know how much money there is.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: Would the bean an tí put up with us?

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (14 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: I thank the Minister for coming to the House tonight. His rapid rise puts him at a great risk of altitude sickness but I wish him very well in the next couple of years. While the Minister speaks much of what the Government has done in the past decade the most productive period in terms of real growth in our economy over the past 15 years was that during which John Bruton was Taoiseach and...

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (14 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: Is that why we got 20 extra seats and the Progressive Democrats lost six?

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (14 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: If the Senator does her sums on the number of seats her party got back, the public will not believe her either.

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (14 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: I move: That Seanad Éireann, in light of the 10% fall in average house prices in 12 months; the possibility that 100,000 young families will face negative equity by next year; the halving of house-building activity and the uncertain future faced by 150,000 workers and apprentices in this industry; the 45,000 increase in unemployment benefit claimants in the last 12 months; the threat to...

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (14 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: The Greens are wilting.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: We will send down the Minister for Defence, Deputy Willie O'Dea, with some tanks.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: That is a lukewarm response.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2008)

Liam Twomey: I offer congratulations to Deputy Brian Cowen on his elevation to Taoiseach, and to all the other Ministers who have been elevated to Cabinet positions in yesterday's re-shuffle. In the past four or five weeks we have seen many tributes and congratulations paid to taoisigh in waiting and taoisigh past. During the same period unemployment rates have risen and consumer confidence has...