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Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister is making a bigger issue. Significantly sicker patients are being moved out of a hospital. Serious clinical issues could arise.

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister gave them that contract. That is the problem.

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: No it has not; that is a lie.

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: Get it from health insurance. In the lifetime of a Fine Gael-Labour Government, they would be much better off than the Minister thinks.

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: I am looking after the children.

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: That is an interesting issue I will take up with the Minister any time.

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...

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister has failed to deliver an implementation plan for the cancer strategy. This means the policy guiding Government cancer services is the one produced by Deputy Noonan in 1996. I studied the Minister's response to the Private Members' motion last week. Of the eight issues she raised, five related to what she would do in the future. Only three related to what had been done over...

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: ——be able to find some of these primary care teams.

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: I have searched high and low across County Wexford and still cannot find them. There should be at least three in the county by now. The Government gave a commitment to provide 800 long-term beds in the public sector this year. However, in a response to a parliamentary question about the programme for additional publicly-owned extended care beds, the Minister said an additional 446 beds...

Health Service Reform: Motion (6 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: That is great.

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 Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: I will table some technical amendments to the Bill on Committee Stage. Fine Gael, however, does not support the legislation because it does not meet the standards set out in our policies. The Government could have gone much further in this legislation but has clearly failed to do so. According to the Government, this Health Bill covers patient protection. It does not put the patient at...

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: It should be brought forward now so we can see and discuss it, rather than the Minister telling us what she will do.

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: There is no point in bringing in such legislation as an afterthought. The complete Bill should have been brought forward now. I will point out the seriousness of where the Government has failed patient safety across its duration. The Neary controversy hit the headlines in 1998, when Dr. Michael Neary was suspended from practice in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. The Government's health...

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: I absolutely support a patient safety authority.

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: I am looking for a patient safety authority.

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: I will deal with the issue when we are discussing the Medical Practitioners Bill. The Minister has lapsed into spin again, but when she brings that legislation forward I would like to see detailed proposals on how she will deal with competence assurance. It is very easy to have a lay majority on a council, but competence assurance protects patients from bad doctors. That is the type of...