Results 141-160 of 4,810 for speaker:Liam Twomey

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (27 Apr 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance if he envisages making any special provision for promotion and for new recruitment in the context of the decentralisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13308/05]

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (28 Apr 2005)

Liam Twomey: Every time the issue of institutional child abuse is raised, people respond in the way they always respond to bad news that they cannot control. There is an obvious sense of the pain of the victims of child abuse but sometimes people attempt to ignore institutional child abuse. I have often noticed people switching channels when this issue is discussed on television and radio because they do...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (28 Apr 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the situation in Zimbabwe following recent elections in that country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13477/05]

Written Answers — Genetically Modified Organisms: Genetically Modified Organisms (4 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the plans her Department has to evaluate the economic implications of the use of genetically modified organisms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13994/05]

Written Answers — Single Payment Scheme: Single Payment Scheme (4 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if deductions from farmers' SFP will not exceed 3% when linear and other cuts are accounted for; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13997/05]

Telecommunications Services. (5 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of broadband service providers engaged or seeking to engage in the provision of broadband services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14538/05]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (5 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of bodies or agencies with whom his Department, consultants, advisers or public relation specialists have had discussions in regard to the provision of broadband services throughout the country; the nature or outcome of such discussions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14537/05]

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.

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

Liam Twomey: The Tánaiste has promised to implement her ten-point plan and to consider the recommendations of the HSA. The Government has pledged to support the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform in his efforts to tackle public order offences. He has come up with quite novel ideas about how he will tackle alcohol abuse in society by encouraging people to sit around wooden tables and partake in...

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

Liam Twomey: The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform has also proposed increasing the fine to €300 for anybody who sells chocolate liquors to a child under 16 years of age. These are hardly ground-breaking and effective measures to tackle alcohol abuse. Perhaps the Minister of State will be able to offer some that make more sense when he responds. The only report the Government has...

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

Liam Twomey: We would be more than happy if the Minister of State would discuss the proposals with us. We would like him to consider the people about whom we are talking, the 1.3 million people who pass through our accident and emergency departments each year and the 3,500 people who the Government keeps saying use accident and emergency departments each day, in whatever proposal with which he comes up. I...

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

Liam Twomey: What are the requirements?