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

Liam Twomey: The Minister accepts some of the principles.

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

Liam Twomey: I assumed the Minister had read our policy. Maybe——

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

Liam Twomey: A patient safety authority is wider.

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

Liam Twomey: The Deputy has come a long way.

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]

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...

Light Rail Project. (3 Apr 2007)

Liam Twomey: Fine Gael has plenty of policies.

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]

Hospitals Building Programme. (29 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of her co-location project to have private hospitals on the grounds of public hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12265/07]

Hospitals Building Programme. (29 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: It has been two and a half years since I first stood here facing the Minister in my role as Fine Gael spokesperson on health and children and today will probably be my last day in the present Dáil standing facing her in this role.

Hospitals Building Programme. (29 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: In the present Dáil, it most definitely will be our last time facing each other on this issue. In case we do not get that opportunity again, I wish her well in the election. As the Minister will be aware, there is outright opposition from my party to the co-location plan. It is a bad plan. I dislike the way the Minister is going about it. She should not sign these contracts unless she...

Hospitals Building Programme. (29 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: What will this cost the private patient in the long term? The private patient will now end up paying not only €268 million which will be transferred to the private sector but, according to Mr. Finn when he was in front of the Joint Committee on Health and Children, probably double that figure. Does the Minister accept that private patients may find their premiums increasing dramatically...

Cancer Screening Programme. (29 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status on the roll-out of the cervical cancer screening programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12266/07]

Cancer Screening Programme. (29 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: In 1997 the then Minister for Health decided to set up a cervical screening programme and in 2000 a pilot scheme was introduced in Limerick. Does the Minister accept Irish women are dying at a rate twice the European average from cervical cancer? Our cervical cancer rate is higher than the UK even though when the programme was proposed in 1997 our rate was half that of the UK. Does she...

Cancer Screening Programme. (29 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: It was also introduced in the UK in the 1960s but the programme was reviewed in 1988 to upgrade it.

Cancer Screening Programme. (29 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: On a point of order, I was informed the reason the HSE did not go to tender was there was no capacity in any laboratory in Europe.

Cancer Screening Programme. (29 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister is almost in agreement with my comments. The Government's commitment to the cervical screening programme is weak. No progress has been made on patient registration and the Minister has no idea how women who need smear tests will be identified. She has acknowledged the HSE has no idea what is the laboratory capacity in this regard. These are two basic issues before one...

Cancer Screening Programme. (29 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: What the Minister stated is amazing. The Minister acknowledges that due to fact the Government has not really put its back behind this, the first women screened under BreastCheck on the east coast will possibly have their third screening before the programme is implemented in the west of Ireland. This is truly dramatic when we see the cancer report published during the week which shows...