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Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (3 Feb 2004)

Liam Twomey: Question 145: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to present a proposal to Government to make Ireland a dioxin-free country. [2951/04]

Written Answers — Electronic Voting: Electronic Voting (3 Feb 2004)

Liam Twomey: Question 211: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the evidence of the unreliability of electronic voting which makes the need for a paper trail more compelling and that the outcome of any election could be challenged. [2952/04]

Hospital Services. (10 Feb 2004)

Liam Twomey: I have four specific questions and one general question to put in respect of this matter. If the Minister of State cannot answer the four specific questions, perhaps he would reply to me in respect of them at a later date. All my questions relate to Wexford General Hospital. Before posing them, I acknowledge that certain actions have been taken to aid the hospital, such as an increase in...

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (17 Feb 2004)

Liam Twomey: It will come as a surprise to the constituents of County Wexford that the local authority has been well funded over the past seven years. With average increases of 17%, one would expect a corresponding increase in services. It is also surprising to read the figures produced by the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gallagher, on the...

Written Answers — Medical Education: Medical Education (30 Mar 2004)

Liam Twomey: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his Department still plans to make medicine and other allied health professions a postgraduate qualification; and if his Department will publish the drop-out rate of medical students in both the pre-clinical years and the clinical years. [9724/04]

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Apr 2004)

Liam Twomey: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill. There are two issues in this debate. One issue concerns the wording of the amendment and whether it will stand up to tests in the courts in future years. Unfortunately, I have no legal training, so I must wait and see what the arguments in this debate will turn up in the next few weeks on whether this...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Apr 2004)

Liam Twomey: I accept that because it is accurate. However, none of the figures from the maternity hospitals is accurate from that point of view. I wish to refer to another issue in regard to our health services on which I have been working for the past decade. We are all well aware of how badly we have treated foreign doctors who have kept our health services from collapsing over the years. In times gone...

Maritime Security Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2004)

Liam Twomey: I wish to share time with Deputy Connolly. The Bill appears to be routine legislation which implements international law to provide for the safety of maritime navigation between the countries which have signed the convention. The origin of the legislation is a UN convention which was signed in Rome in 1988. How the world has changed in the 16 years since then. There are important reasons for...

Rural Development: Motion. (1 Jun 2004)

Liam Twomey: I am delighted to speak on tonight's motion. County Wexford is a rural constituency and has been neglected not only since the last election but also the previous election. Decentralisation, health, education and jobs will again be the dominant issues in the next general election unless the Government focuses on rural Ireland. Last Wednesday, Fianna Fáil members of the Oireachtas Committee on...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (1 Jun 2004)

Liam Twomey: Question 123: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food his views on whether it is the IFA's considered view that the recommendations of the draft nitrates directive action programme are unnecessary, unworkable and unaffordable for farming here. [16262/04]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (1 Jun 2004)

Liam Twomey: Question 287: To ask the Minister for Transport if the Railway Procurement Agency and the CIE group of companies applied to National Development Finance Agency for advice on any Public Private Partnership projects. [16636/04]

Written Answers — Drug Misuse: Drug Misuse (5 Oct 2004)

Liam Twomey: Question 225: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the action he intends to take following the findings of the drug misuse research division report that the incidence of treated problem opiate use has increased sharply and that this increase in the number of new problem opiate users indicates a spread of heroin use in the seven health board areas, with very high...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (5 Oct 2004)

Liam Twomey: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress to date in improving the alignment of structures of community and local development organisations across urban, rural and Gaeltacht areas. [22724/04]

Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (12 Oct 2004)

Liam Twomey: This is minor legislation. It seems strange that the Government always wants to hang on to its little piece of inequality and discrimination, no matter how minor the legislation. I do not understand why adoptive parents cannot be given 18 weeks' paid maternity leave in the same way as a natural mother. One of the arguments made is that a pregnant woman needs to rest for two weeks prior to...

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Liam Twomey: It vanished in the same manner as the rheumatologists.

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Liam Twomey: It should have been much better.

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Liam Twomey: This is a sham.

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Liam Twomey: That is rubbish.

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Liam Twomey: Are they working?

Health Services: Motion. (12 Oct 2004)

Liam Twomey: The Minister of States' speeches were too slow and too little. The grand plan for radiotherapy services and cancer treatment services across the country will need at least another three years before anything happens. We have already been waiting for them for two years. The Minister of State, Deputy Brian Lenihan, focused on oncology, saying that investment in the national cancer strategy has...