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Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (6 Feb 2013)

Liam Twomey: I ask the Minister of State to convey to the HSE that it could be more imaginative in how it is dealing with this issue. It could provide haemodialysis until this legal issue is resolved. I am sure it could even put forward a short-term tendering contract to provide haemodialysis at Wexford General Hospital until this legal issue is resolved. My suspicion is that the HSE is not so much...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Liam Twomey: It usually goes from the member concerned to the clerk

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2013)

Liam Twomey: I was a Member when the HSE was established and, at the time, we had high hopes for what it might achieve. Unfortunately, the former Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney, did not have great clarity of purpose as to what she wanted the HSE to achieve. The HSE ran into several problems in subsequent years which the then Minister was able to deal with by increasing the budget by...

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Liam Twomey: Would the Deputy invest his money simply to throw it away? The Deputy has investments so I presume he would think carefully about what he does. He does not simply toss them away on a whim. Why would he expect anybody else not to weigh up the risks? Everybody who invests looks at low risk, medium risk and high risk investments. In fact, there is a sense that people are moving into...

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Liam Twomey: It is important when Members of the Opposition speak that they should follow through on what their policy preferences would lead to in this country and what would be the consequences of their actions. It was interesting to listen to the previous speaker, Deputy Boyd Barrett. He gave lots of nuggets of information but he did not follow through on what would happen if his policies were...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Cost (20 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a private ambulance was called to transfer a patient from Waterford Regional Hospital at a cost of €900, when a wheelchair taxi at a cost of €120 was satisfactory; the cost controls the VHI are implementing to control this unnecessary cost on VHI subscribers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57454/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (19 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken by the Health Service Executive to ensure that nurses have access to six weeks adaptation placement courses available in a recognised paediatric hospital to allow nurses to upskill and receive An Bord Altranais registration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57342/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (19 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that paediatric nurses who wish to come back to nursing cannot get An Bord Altranais registration because there are no adaptation placement courses available for them and therefore they are not allowed work as nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57343/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure equal access to general practitioner services in all Health Service Executive regions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57358/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct all hospitals to abolish catchment areas, publish the waiting time for all consultants and publish the efficiency measurements of all hospitals in view of the fact that this will allow general practitioners to refer to the most efficient hospitals and drive the concept of money follows the patient; and if he will make a statement on the...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: Many people have had a good deal to say about this property tax. A good property tax will be progressive, help to keep property prices stable in the long term and encourage the appropriate use of housing stock. This is important because in the long term we need to ensure we have a sustainable housing stock. Although this may be a difficult time to introduce such a tax, in the long term it...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: The issue is the quality of the debate from Deputy Higgins. It is absolute nonsense and it makes absolutely no sense. It is voodoo economics with no solutions and nothing solid, only lectures about revolution and asking people to go out on the streets and destroy property and lives. We have long since put that behind us.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: We are trying to find proper solutions. Why does Deputy Higgins not put forward a balanced budget and shows us what he believes in?

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: We will do so. I have read the Sinn Féin website. I hope there is more clarity than in the Sinn Féin website where there was no clarity. It is anti-democratic to use the Dáil Chamber to stoke fear and anger in people. There should be a more solid debate about these measures and I hope there will be next week. There are problems with this legislation and many people on this...

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: The next speaker is Deputy Mary Lou McDonald, who I understand is sharing time with Deputies O'Brien, Tóibín and Stanley. Deputy McDonald has ten minutes, Deputies O'Brien and Tóibín have five minutes and Deputy Stanley has ten minutes.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: Can I ask all Deputies to show respect? Deputy Byrne and Deputy Ferris, please.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: Deputy Ferris and Deputy Byrne, please show some respect to each other, if not to the House, and let the speakers make their speeches properly. Deputy Paschal Donohoe has three minutes.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: No interruptions, please. Deputy Brian Hayes.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: Minister, please.

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Liam Twomey: I call the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Alex White. There are only three minutes left in the slot.