Results 4,121-4,140 of 4,810 for speaker:Liam Twomey

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Liam Twomey: It would be worth the Minister's while to examine why these six hospitals are being built. Over the last 20 years in this country no more that seven such hospitals have been constructed. Why have 36 submissions been made for these hospitals?

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Liam Twomey: The Minister should know what my policies are; he need not ask me about them tonight. To ensure the proper delivery of a radiotherapy service in the south east, that radiotherapy unit should have been built on the grounds of Waterford Regional Hospital where the other oncology and surgical services are available——

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Liam Twomey: ——and where there is a multidisciplinary service.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Liam Twomey: Does the Minister disagree with the multidisciplinary delivery of health services? The Minister is the one who should listen. He is poorly informed. He is driven by a silly agenda and is not prepared to move sideways from it. The best place for that radiotherapy unit would have been on the grounds of Waterford Regional Hospital.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Liam Twomey: Will the Leas-Cheann Comhairle ask the Minister to stay quiet for a while because we were talking about——

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Liam Twomey: Before I do so I would like to say that the Minister is totally lost in regard to what is going on here. Patient care is being seriously compromised by some of the Government's polices. The Minister is ignorant of what I am talking about and he cannot even listen. I was talking about a private hospital and not about radiotherapy. He is totally confused.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Liam Twomey: The Minister needs to see a good physician because I believe he is suffering from a fair amount of confusion and is delusional. Perhaps I could do something for him afterwards but I will move the adjournment of the debate first.

Nursing Homes: Motion (Resumed). (28 Sep 2006)

Liam Twomey: No matter what is said in this House, the Government has utterly failed in every respect. It has failed in its duty to legislate, it has failed in its duty to give political direction to the health services and it has persistently failed elderly patients in nursing homes. Government representatives come into this Chamber and bleat about what they have done and what they will do, which is a...

Nursing Homes: Motion (Resumed). (28 Sep 2006)

Liam Twomey: He is not worried about the patients, nor what sort of system must be brought into place, but only worried about how he is perceived. One sentence in his letter to The Irish Times was quite interesting, "Your readers can be assured that the HSE will not tolerate nursing homes operating below acceptable standards". I would like to know where Mr. Browne has been for the last nine or ten...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Sep 2006)

Liam Twomey: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when funding for Ely Hospital day surgery ward will be made available so that this ward can be made available to the patients of County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29573/06]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (27 Sep 2006)

Liam Twomey: Question 155: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if qualified paramedics are covered to administer cardiac and other life-saving drugs while on duty with the ambulance service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29568/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (27 Sep 2006)

Liam Twomey: Question 758: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of capital spending on ICT in the Health Service Executive provided for in her department's estimates for 2006; the amount of such expenditure which has been sanctioned by her Department prior to 1 September 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29505/06]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Sep 2006)

Liam Twomey: Question 824: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons in the Health Service Executive North East Region who have been placed in contracted beds in nursing homes in 2006; the numbers from this area currently in contracted beds; the number of nursing homes involved in the care of these persons; the amount of the weekly payments currently being made in respect of the...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (27 Sep 2006)

Liam Twomey: Question 825: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of inquiries conducted by the Mental Health Commission, since 1 January 2005, under section 55 of the Mental Health Act, 2001 indicating the nature of the issues inquired into; the outcome of the inquiries; the steps taken to deal with matters which arose on foot of each inquiry; and if the inquiries were requested by her...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (27 Sep 2006)

Liam Twomey: Question 826: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the nature of the issues referred, by the Inspector of Mental Health Services, to the Mental Health Commission in 2005; the nature of the issues which were considered to need immediate action; the services involved; the actions which were proposed to be taken to remedy the situation; and the extent to which remedial action was taken...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (27 Sep 2006)

Liam Twomey: Question 827: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of public long-term care beds in the State. [30163/06]

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (27 Sep 2006)

Liam Twomey: Question 828: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people in respect of whom nursing home subvention is paid; and the number of those people in receipt of enhanced subvention as of 1 September 2006. [30164/06]

Nursing Homes: Motion. (27 Sep 2006)

Liam Twomey: I move: That Dáil Éireann, concerned at: the failure of the Government to publish Professor O'Neill's report into deaths at Leas Cross nursing home; the failure of the Government to fulfil promises made in this House by the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health and Children to introduce legislation to provide for an independent statutorily-based inspection regime for all nursing homes; and...

Nursing Homes: Motion. (27 Sep 2006)

Liam Twomey: In June 2005, the first report on Leas Cross, namely, the Hynes report was published. It also exposed many matters which are still under discussion tonight. What has been done since its publication? Nothing appears to stir either the Minister of State or his colleagues into action in respect of care of the elderly. The Minister for Health and Children, who prides herself on being a can-do...

Nursing Homes: Motion. (27 Sep 2006)

Liam Twomey: I am simply reading from the Official Report. I will move on to 2006, by which time the Government had promised that everything would be different. However, 2006 did not start well due to the publication of the Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital report and the recommendations by Judge Harding Clark to make improvements in the health service a priority. Little has been done in respect of that...