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Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2007)

Liam Twomey: They do not have any aircraft. They sold them.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2007)

Liam Twomey: We are moving much faster than was thought.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2007)

Liam Twomey: No bad language.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2007)

Liam Twomey: Listening to the concert coming from the Government benches regarding the Health Service Executive, it is misplaced to make a virtue out of penalising patients. Last month, senior management in the HSE paid themselves significant bonuses. This month, we are told, the problems in the HSE are due to the failure of senior management to understand their own budgets. How can someone pay himself...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2007)

Liam Twomey: There has been a U-turn on health policy by the Government. While no one is reforming the public health system, it is being given over to the private sector which is not regulated by the statutory bodies established by the Government. These are the matters to be debated in the House rather than paying lip-service to an unholy mess in the health services. I know of many patients waiting...

Seanad: Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (27 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: I welcome the Minister. The Minister and I have been dealing with risk equalisation for the past two and a half years and in some respects it has turned us into private health anoraks regarding debates of this nature. While the Minister and I appear to understand the issues, no one else outside the Houses of the Oireachtas appears to do so. I refer in particular to risk equalisation, which...

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Harney, on her reappointment as Minister for Health and Children. It is three years since the Minister was first appointed to this office. One can ask what success has been achieved within the health service. There is no doubt money has been spent but the successes are few. Part of the problem is a combination of incompetence and complacency about what...

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: On a point of clarification, is the Senator agreeing with the cutbacks?

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: I would like a straight answer from the Senator. That is all I want.

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Senator should check the record of the Dáil. I backed the Minister on that issue two years ago.

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Senator is asking me——

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: If the Senator asks me the question, I will answer it.

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: Did he work in the UK?

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: My geography was never very good.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: Before I came into this House I felt it was the sleepy backwater of national politics.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: That was my impression and we will see whether it will change in the next couple of months. Talking about Seanad Éireann keeping its eagle eye on foreign policy regarding Burma and the Middle East is almost as useful as keeping an eagle eye on the Russian Tsar in the early 20th century. We must be realistic about what we can achieve in this House. Whereas I do not necessarily agree with...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: I hope we will talk more about Shannon. There are differing views in this House but the Government Members must be extremely clear, because it is not just Aer Lingus that has migrated to Northern Ireland — it seems Fianna Fáil is planning on migrating north as well. Maybe they are neglecting the west and they should be quite clear on how they are going to move in that direction.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, said he would like to see a slowdown in the housing market and, according to the Construction Industry Federation, he has got his wish as we now have a significant slowdown which will cause concerns for the economy for the next couple of years. The CEO of the Construction Industry Federation said on a news bulletin this afternoon that three of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: In the next couple of weeks, during debates on Shannon and the health services, I look forward to the Government representatives on the other side telling it as it is. Maybe some of them will explain why Senator Ross is completely wrong in regard to Government policy and that Fianna Fáil really does look after the west, instead of moving to Northern Ireland.

Employment Support Services. (26 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: Are the people of Tallaght happy with that?