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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
142 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the radiotherapy unit for Waterford General Hospital will be up and running; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35388/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
109 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether it is fair that Irish trained nurses are failing to have their part-time contracts increased into full-time contracts at Wexford General Hospital while at the same time, foreign nurses have been brought in on short term full-time contracts; if this is happening in other hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35394/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
81 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views regarding the incidence of metabolic syndrome here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35724/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
78 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if legislation will be introduced to protect whistle-blowers in the health services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35723/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 November 2005
161 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the position in regard to the promotion and development of the digital hub with particular reference to the associated costs to date in 2005 and its future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34529/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 November 2005
131 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to evaluate the economic implications of the use of genetically modified organisms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33793/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 November 2005
47 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the situation in Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33289/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 November 2005
109 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Finance the number and proportion of appointments made by the Top Level Appointments Committee in the past five years of persons outside the public service; the number of persons outside the Department where a vacancy occurred. [33109/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 November 2005
207 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Education and Science when the task force on student behaviour will deliver its final report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32715/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 November 2005
121 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Education and Science her plans for increasing the number of Irish medical graduates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28900/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 November 2005
263 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if Question No. 66 of 29 June 2005 was sent to the Health Service Executive parliamentary affairs division for reply as stated in her reply to same; the reason the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE has no record of receiving the parliamentary question; if she will answer this parliamentary question directly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31899/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 November 2005
106 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of meetings of the better regulation group which have taken place; the action which has been taken arising from those meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31631/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 October 2005
327 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the ambulance control service for the south east, which is based at Wexford General Hospital, will be moved to Cork under recent plans to reorganise the health services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29170/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 October 2005
326 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the ambulance service for Wexford town will change from on call to on duty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29169/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 October 2005
261 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the crisis at Pilgrim House and its ability to care for adult men with learning disabilities; the way in which this may affect other voluntary groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28975/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 October 2005
260 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she will meet the owners of Pilgrim House; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28974/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 October 2005
188 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive took delivery of the Hib booster vaccine and when vaccination will begin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28955/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 October 2005
168 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the booster vaccination in the second year of life to prevent haemophilus infection will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28954/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 October 2005
95 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the provision of 3,000 acute hospital beds is still Government policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29480/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 October 2005
92 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on the implementation of her accident and emergency ten point plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29479/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 October 2005
146 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the initiatives he has taken to improve the viability prospects of An Post and post offices in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28074/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 October 2005
108 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has issued directives in respect of the completion of local loop unbundling with particular reference to the need to achieve the highest possible availability of broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28046/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 October 2005
167 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons availing of the over 70s medical card that was introduced in 2001; the number of persons aged over 70 who are on the traditional medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27786/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 October 2005
127 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of times her Department has met with the social services inspectorate since May 2005 in relation to the extension of the social services inspectorate remit to include residential homes for the elderly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27338/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 October 2005
84 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Education and Science the timescale of the recent report on the Marino Institute; if matters prior to 2002 were considered in drawing up this report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27536/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 October 2005
69 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Education and Science the percentage of children who leave primary school with literacy difficulties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27580/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 October 2005
68 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the situation in Sudan; the humanitarian assistance that is being made available to the affected regions in that country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26895/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2005
157 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the current status of Ireland’s application for a derogation under the nitrates directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26209/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 September 2005
34 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Defence if he has had any recent discussions with respect to the use of St. Bricin’s Hospital, Parkgate Street, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25659/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 September 2005
27 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Defence the improvements which have been carried out to St. Bricin’s Hospital since October 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25661/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 June 2005
66 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 21 June 2005, if she will list each facility and its value that has opened following the allocation of funding announced in September 2004; if she will list each new health facility and its value that remains closed in the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22935/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 June 2005
45 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a statement on the meeting between a company (details supplied) and his Department regarding changes they were proposing to Government policy on the regional movement of waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22292/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 June 2005
39 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason he has recently issued policy directions on the movement of waste; the impact such directions are expected to have; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22291/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 June 2005
127 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that all appropriate inquiries and measures have been taken in regard to allegations and information supplied by a person (details supplied) regarding the hospital, the HSE and the Department of Health and Children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21399/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 June 2005
124 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she will announce the capital development works for Wexford General Hospital for extra beds, a new accident and emergency department, a new outpatients department, and increased funding for extra staffing for high pressured areas such as obstetrics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20906/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 June 2005
93 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on talks between the HSE and health authorities in Northern Ireland regarding the provision of access for patients in the north-west to radiotherapy facilities in Belfast; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20882/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 June 2005
204 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of prosecutions taken by health boards against nursing homes for each of the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 to date; the number of successful prosecutions for each of the above years; the list of names of the nursing homes and their proprietors who were successfully prosecuted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20661/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 June 2005
51 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of services (details supplied) for the elderly, that were promised in the national health strategy 2001, which have been delivered since 2001; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21184/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2005
12 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he is satisfied that his intentions in regard to meeting 13% of national electricity requirements from wind generated sources in view of the regulators indications not to offer further assistance towards wind generated electricity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20030/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2005
568 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a Garda barracks (details supplied) in County Wexford is not for sale and not under negotiations at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19587/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2005
276 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the remuneration, allowance, superannuation and additional advisers package proposed by Professor Drumm as a prerequisite for his appointment as chief executive officer of the HSE was submitted to the Department of Finance for consent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20051/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2005
261 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to permanent registration for section 7.6 doctors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19645/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2005
260 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a report of an MRI scan of a person (details supplied) cannot be found; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19633/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2005
258 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if public health and community medicine doctors are discriminated against in interviews for promotion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19602/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2005
257 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason Ireland has not yet ratified the WHO framework convention on tobacco control; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19601/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2005
199 Dr. Twomey asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason 83 private nursing homes were inspected only once in 2004; if this is a satisfactory inspection regime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19214/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 June 2005
59 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Education and Science the arrangements for the clustering of schools for special needs support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19751/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 June 2005
51 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding the possible lifting of the arms embargo on China; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18619/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 June 2005
42 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider integrating the payment of family income supplement with the tax code in order that the very low take up of this entitlement may be addressed. [18411/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 31 May 2005
95 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his assessment of the status of the World Trade Organisation negotiations on the liberalisation of world trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18082/05]