Results 201-220 of 4,810 for speaker:Liam Twomey
- Central Bank (Mortgage Interest Rates) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Jun 2015)
Liam Twomey: Although I do not take too much notice of the members of the Opposition who take their banking policy from what was the old USSR, I was expecting a little more from a party that feels it actually should be in power some day. Deputy Pearse Doherty knows that when one puts forward legislation, one is supposed to look at things in totality. From my experience of watching Deputy Doherty in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)
Liam Twomey: I remind members, delegates and those in the Visitors Gallery to ensure their mobile phones are switched off. This is important because it causes serious problems for broadcasting, editorial and sound staff. No. 8 is pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of a Bill to provide for functions for the Minister for Finance and powers to spend regarding the agreement on the transfer and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)
Liam Twomey: Was an impact regulatory analysis carried out of the impact of the legislation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)
Liam Twomey: We will pay €1.8 billion, approximately 3.3% of the fund.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)
Liam Twomey: It is approximately 3.3 % of the fund.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)
Liam Twomey: Therefore, this is not a threefold increase, as Deputy Tom Barry suggested, but probably an increase of one and a half times for national banks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)
Liam Twomey: I thank Senator Hayden. I call Deputy Tóibín.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Single Resolution Fund Bill: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)
Liam Twomey: On behalf of the joint committee, I thank the witnesses from the Department of Finance and the Central Bank for participating in the meeting and for the material they supplied to the committee.
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: First and foremost, our sympathies are with the parents of these children and those experiencing many other regrettable outcomes that are happening in our health services every day, unfortunately. Resources make a difference, but for years we have failed to take on board issues around governance, how we manage our health service and how we deliver our health services. All too often, I have...
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: Unfortunately that sort of thinking stayed in the HSE for more than a decade, but it was not an overt policy. Therefore, hospitals such as Portlaoise hospital were being starved of funding but no one quite knew what was the management policy that was being implemented. It was, therefore, only a matter of time before a crisis like this was going to happen. This is a much more proper...
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: That is where Deputy Fitzmaurice is wrong.
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: It is not always about resources. We cannot be doing brain surgery in Roscommon.
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: We cannot be doing major bowel surgery in Roscommon. However, we can safely do other procedures such as what is happening at present. There are no complaints from the consultants or the doctors who are working in Roscommon now, because they know this is-----
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: -----the way medicine should be practised. It was the consultants at Roscommon hospital who reported their own hospital to HIQA.
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: Deputy Fitzmaurice should read it properly and understand properly what is happening. He would learn an awful lot from it.
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: What is that?
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: But, Deputy, he has kept it open-----
- Midland Regional Hospital: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: -----and it is actually functioning better.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: The matter for discussion is an overview of the country specific recommendations in the European context. I would like to welcome the Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs, Mr. Pierre Moscovici, to Ireland and to our meeting. Mr. Moscovici was taking part in a seminar this morning at the Institute of International and European Affairs on Ireland's recovery....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (26 May 2015)
Liam Twomey: I thank the Commissioner for his time. As time is short because we are a little limited in this session, may I limit contributions to five minutes? We will have five-minute contributions and if we have time, we can go back over it again. Does Deputy Michael McGrath-----