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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (13 Apr 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has given consideration to the fact that, if adequate funding was made available to the Blackrock Hospice, Blackrock, County Dublin, the additional bed numbers and additional services would immediately free up beds in acute hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11331/05]

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion (Resumed). (13 Apr 2005)

Liam Twomey: I ask the Ceann Comhairle to look at the Government amendment to our motion because it does not even address what is contained in the Fine Gael motion.

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion (Resumed). (13 Apr 2005)

Liam Twomey: The Fine Gael motion relates to screening for cervical and breast cancer through BreastCheck. The Government amendment only refers to services for breast cancer and cancer services generally which is not the purpose of our motion. The Tánaiste knows that one in four men and women will get cancer at some stage in their lives. In focusing on cancer which affects women and which can be screened...

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion (Resumed). (13 Apr 2005)

Liam Twomey: I acknowledge the Tánaiste's good wishes towards Deputy Kenny, the Fine Gael Party, and other Members and her acknowledgement that we also have a caring agenda and that caring is not the preserve of the Fianna Fáil Party.

Disability Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (13 Apr 2005)

Liam Twomey: Every society changes over time and this change may be evident over ten years or over half a century. This change is sometimes dictated and led by intelligent and broad-minded politicians but all too often it is the politicians who are dragged along in the wake of change with little regard to what they can do about it. The issue of disability is an issue over which politicians should be in...

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion. (12 Apr 2005)

Liam Twomey: This motion concerns two cancers that affect women of all age groups. Breast cancer is more common in women over 50 and women with a strong family history of the disease. Cervical cancer, or cancer of the cervix, which is part of the uterus or womb, has a number of risk factors. These factors include smoking, the incidence of which is increasing among young women, and the human papilloma...

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion. (12 Apr 2005)

Liam Twomey: I move: That Dáil Éireann, recognises that: —there are approximately 1,700 cases of women with breast cancer each year; —approximately 640 women die each year from breast cancer; —cancer screening plays a significant role in reducing deaths from cancer; —women in the Republic of Ireland are suffering because of the failure of the Government to extend BreastCheck nationally; —the...

Written Answers — EU Presidency: EU Presidency (23 Mar 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the work carried out by her Department before and during the EU presidency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9520/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (23 Mar 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of positions of personnel working in public hospitals here which are funded by pharmaceutical companies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9523/05]

Nursing Home Charges. (23 Mar 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 2: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost of adopting a policy involving the repayment in full of all illegal charges to patients who are still alive and invoking the Statute of Limitations in regard to the estates of patients who are deceased, in relation to the illegal charging of long stay patients; if she has received legal advice that such a course of...

Nursing Home Charges. (23 Mar 2005)

Liam Twomey: Will the Government return to the Supreme Court to test the legality of invoking the Statute of Limitations? Has the Government considered doing so? The Supreme Court judgment takes into account the rights of the State's limited liabilities by reliance on the Statute of Limitations. Has the Tánaiste received definitive legal advice from the Attorney General on this matter? The Tánaiste...

Nursing Home Charges. (23 Mar 2005)

Liam Twomey: What about the legal advice?

Nursing Home Charges. (23 Mar 2005)

Liam Twomey: Why is this legal document being withheld from Members when it was widely circulated among the health boards in 2003? It is not Government legal advice but legal advice sought by a health board on an issue with which it was dealing and subsequently circulated to all health boards. The Minister tells us we cannot have this information. With regard to the Minister, Deputy Martin, and the...

Precautions against Influenza. (23 Mar 2005)

Liam Twomey: For the peace and quiet.

Accident and Emergency Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Liam Twomey: We should always aim to set high standards rather than minimum standards. Is it true that a specified minimum space of approximately 1.62 m should be kept between beds in hospital wards? There is a contradiction in requiring a fixed distance between beds on wards when patients are practically stacked on top of each other in accident and emergency departments while they wait on trolleys. We...

Hospital Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 108: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the delivery of chemotherapy, oncology and radiation oncology at Cork University Hospital following the recent resignation of a consultant at the hospital. [9511/05]

Hospital Services. (23 Mar 2005)

Liam Twomey: There will be a significant increase in the number of patients requiring treatment for cancer in the south. Does the Tánaiste consider it medically safe that there is only one permanent oncologist in Cork University Hospital and that there is no dedicated medical oncology ward in this hospital, which is providing cancer services in not only the second largest city in Ireland but in the whole...

Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (22 Mar 2005)

Liam Twomey: Some of the comments made by the Minister of State, Deputy Browne, show a certain lack of knowledge of what is happening in agriculture. I am surprised by his view on agriculture, which is a little narrow-minded. I was expecting a broader debate from the Minister of State. I grew up on a farm and over the years I learned about the contempt farmers have for people who meddle in their affairs,...

Written Answers — Legal Advice: Legal Advice (22 Mar 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of requests for legal advice made by her Department to the Attorney General in respect of each of the years 2002, 2003 and 2004; the subject matter of each of these requests; if advice was subsequently furnished; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8993/05]

Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (22 Mar 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she is responsible for the performance of the functions of her Department in accordance with section 3 of the Public Service Management Act 1997; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9338/05]