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Hospital Charges. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: The Minister should be honest on what it will cost to private health insurance patients.

Hospital Charges. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: The Minister has simply skirted around this issue.

Hospital Charges. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: Private patients are already paying taxes. The Minister is turning her back on the public health system with the co-location plan. She does not care how inefficient it is or how much it will cost. She expects VHI and BUPA customers to fork out for her cock-up. How much will a private health insurance patient pay on extra premiums because the Minister turned her back on the public system?

Hospital Charges. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: The Minister is giving it away.

Hospital Charges. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: We will wait and see.

Hospital Charges. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: The Minister will also contribute to it.

Hospital Charges. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: Is that the Minister's standard?

Hospital Charges. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: The Minister is fooling herself.

Hospital Charges. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: We come from very different parties but the sentiments are the same.

Hospital Charges. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: At any cost.

Hospital Charges. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: It is only 20% of the beds. The Minister does not know what is happening in the hospitals.

Hospital Charges. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: Some 50% of the population has private health insurance.

Hospital Charges. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: The Minister does not understand what is going on in the health service. She should be more honest and tell VHI and BUPA customers how much they will pay in future.

Nursing Home Inspections. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: When Mr. Aidan Brown addressed the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children, he said that since the beginning of the year all inspections teams comprised a nurse, a doctor and an environmental health officer. When I informed him that I was aware of at least one case in which an inspection team had an inspector but no doctor or nurse, he suddenly said that still happens in some parts...

Nursing Home Inspections. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: What am I saying today?

Nursing Home Inspections. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: The Department was forced to publish the Leas Cross report. The Minister of State should be honest.

Nursing Home Inspections. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: We will not take credit for everything.

Nursing Home Inspections. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: When were they signed off?

Nursing Home Inspections. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: Does the Minister of State mean it is only the Government's intention to establish inspection teams? He did not answer any of my questions.

Nursing Home Inspections. (5 Dec 2006)

Liam Twomey: That was a year and a half ago.