Results 4,641-4,660 of 4,810 for speaker:Liam Twomey

Safe Sex Promotion. (11 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: I must challenge that statement. Teenagers may know what they are doing, but they do not know how it works.

Registration of Medical Practitioners. (11 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: There is no point in rejigging the council unless it is backed up by a proper legislative position. The 1978 Act is totally inadequate today. In this House we have discussed the case of a medical practitioner who abused his position and the case of an alternative practitioner who in effect cost a person's life. Doctors and the Medical Council have called for a change to the Medical...

Registration of Medical Practitioners. (11 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: There should be a statutory registration for all people who consider themselves either acupuncturists, general practitioners or physiotherapists. Every GP must register with the Medical Council. If one does not do so, one cannot prescribe in this country. GPs pay more than €5,000 per year for insurance purposes in case they make a mistake. The alternative practitioner to whom Deputy Cowley...

Medical Cards. (11 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: The Tánaiste gave a guarantee to spend €60 million on this issue, €30 million of which was for the doctor only medical cards and €30 million for the 30,000 traditional medical cards, all of which was to commence on 1 April or thereabouts. Given the rate of progress no medical cards will be issued before the summer. How will she spend the €60 million? Will it be spent on advertising,...

Hospitals Building Programme. (11 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 56: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the proposals she has considered for the new children's hospital in Crumlin; if she has considered a greenfield development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15624/05]

Hospitals Building Programme. (11 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin is the national tertiary hospital for children and I am delighted the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children is not opposed to the idea of selecting a well-structured greenfield site for a new hospital. Fine Gael believes that a tertiary hospital for all services should be built on a greenfield site, somewhere like the west Dublin site...

Hospitals Building Programme. (11 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: Will the Tánaiste tell the House when Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children will receive an MRI scanner?

Cancer Screening Programme. (11 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 59: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the health screening measures which have been implemented since 1997; her proposals for the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15625/05]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 259: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason the orphan allowance is €121 per week but the foster allowance is €331 per week; if this discriminates against orphan children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14852/05]

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (10 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 394: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding persons (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14851/05]

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: What are the requirements?

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: I move: That Dáil Éireann recognises the: —work of nurses, doctors and staff of accident and emergency units who work under severe pressure each day; —recent report published by the Health and Safety Authority, Health and Safety Authority Inspection Programme in Accident and Emergency Units March-April 2005, which stated that "the health sector, and more particularly accident and...

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: This is another example of the Government's failure to act.

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: They will not be published until next year.

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: Since this issue has arisen, does the Minister of State suggest the Government now believes there is no need to build a second terminal in Dublin Airport?

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: A second terminal is required. I merely ask if the Minister of State agrees.

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and assure him I will extend the same courtesy to the Minister of State when his time comes to speak. I am sure he and other Government speakers will have much to say on our proposals. I hope no Minister ends up in one of the proposed wet rooms. The measures we propose are necessary to tackle the effect of alcohol abuse on accident and emergency facilities. Nothing...

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: I remind the Minister of State of the case of a patient with lung problems whose condition was aggravated by the presence of a man who was smoking in the accident and emergency department.

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: When this patient's relatives asked the man to extinguish his cigarette, he responded with a threat to do so on the patient's neck. Two laws were broken in this instance in that the aggressor was smoking in a confined public place and threatening and abusing other persons. Why are patients exposed to intimidation, violence and aggression in accident and emergency departments? Such has become...

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion. (10 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: I am well aware of the number of patients who avail of accident and emergency services. Unfortunately, far too many complain about those facilities.