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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2012)

Liam Twomey: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health the plans he has to tackle the distress that alcohol fuelled consultation causes to staff and other patients in hospital accident and emergency departments; and will moneys raised by a fat tax or sugar tax be used to deal with this crisis in our accident and emergency departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8499/12]

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (15 Feb 2012)

Liam Twomey: Question 109: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his best estimate of the cost to the Exchequer of teaching Irish in our primary and secondary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8741/12]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (15 Feb 2012)

Liam Twomey: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to his Department for chaplaincy services in secondary schools; noting that their role is different to school guidance services, but asking whether they overlap in any way; the schools entitled to have a full-time chaplaincy service paid for by him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8742/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Feb 2012)

Liam Twomey: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of providing transition year to schools; if he will provide the breakdown of the costs incurred to him by transition year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8743/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Feb 2012)

Liam Twomey: Question 112: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he carries out a cost benefit analysis review on different educational programmes paid for by him; if, for example, he has reviewed the leaving certificate vocational programme from this point; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8744/12]

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (15 Feb 2012)

Liam Twomey: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline the pathway for the implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive for 2020, in view of the fact that this will help indigenous companies plan for the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8516/12]

Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (15 Feb 2012)

Liam Twomey: Question 270: To ask the Minister for Health the reason Pradaxa was removed from the drug allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8683/12]

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Liam Twomey: The remaining Fianna Fáil Members should not forget what their recklessness has caused. Some 250,000 people have lost their jobs, income has been cut in the public and private sectors and public services for our citizens have been reduced. The people are suffering but the Opposition is stoking their fear and anger rather than supporting them in their time of crisis. Since this Government...

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (1 Feb 2012)

Liam Twomey: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce legislation for non-recourse mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5524/12]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (1 Feb 2012)

Liam Twomey: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce legislation to change the valuation date of 30 November 2009 that the National Asset Management Agency is still using to value property it is acquiring; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5523/12]

Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Liam Twomey: I have been a doctor for 20 years and have been in politics for ten years. It is amazing when one switches from the Opposition to the Government side the arguments seldom change.

Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Liam Twomey: The solutions are far more important at this time. In the time I have been involved in politics I have seen some progressive changes in the health services and I work with the dedicated public service to which Deputy Nulty referred on a regular basis. Even in the decade I have been in politics, the problems with the use of computers and IT in the health service have not been addressed. We...

Proposed Statutory Instrument on Copyright: Statements (31 Jan 2012)

Liam Twomey: I commend the Minister of State on what he is doing because we are trying to address a very difficult issue. Could this instrument have a significant effect on an ISP? ISPs are vital to our future. How might the statutory instrument have an impact on businesses? Will the Minister of State comment on whether a company could use the cost of an injunction to bully an ISP into an action that...

Written Answers — Public Service Agreements: Public Service Agreements (24 Jan 2012)

Liam Twomey: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the implementation of the Croke Park agreement is on track to deliver the expected savings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3319/12]

Departmental Expenditure (24 Jan 2012)

Liam Twomey: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if focusing cuts in expenditure on the non pay element of public expenditure is having a disproportionate impact on service provision; if there are any plans on reducing payroll costs, other than reduction in numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3320/12]

Advance Healthcare Decisions Bill 2012: First Stage (12 Jan 2012)

Liam Twomey: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the making of medical treatment decisions in advance by competent persons with the intention of those decisions subsequently providing for the withholding of care at a time when the person loses competence to make treatment decisions; to amend the Powers of Attorney Act 1996 to allow for attorneys under that act...

Advance Healthcare Decisions Bill 2012: First Stage (12 Jan 2012)

Liam Twomey: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2011)

Liam Twomey: I support the Minister's efforts to reform local government and make it work for citizens. Having been the Fine Gael Party spokesperson on environment and local government while in opposition, he knows the issues inside out. It would have been useful if Sinn Féin Deputies had remained for the debate given that their party is the only political party represented in the House which has...

Rural Areas: Motion (13 Dec 2011)

Liam Twomey: Reading the motion, it is difficult to see what is Fianna Fáil's policy into the future given it is trying to ingratiate itself with the public it so badly let down in recent years. It seems to be a mixture of the use of fear to get people on-side and perhaps going back to the territory of comely maidens dancing at the crossroads. Younger generations, and not so young generations, laughed...

Rural Areas: Motion (13 Dec 2011)

Liam Twomey: I was quoting the Minister.