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Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (10 May 2012)

Séamus Healy: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite the application for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23464/12]

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (10 May 2012)

Séamus Healy: Question 114: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the planning, approval, commencement and completion of water schemes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23462/12]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Personnel: Defence Forces Personnel (10 May 2012)

Séamus Healy: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will arrange for the return of the Felix Grant Memorial Plaque to Clonmel, County Tipperary, following its removal on the closure of Kickham Barracks Clonmel in view of the fact that he served at Kickham Barracks Clonmel and his family resides in the town. [23458/12]

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (10 May 2012)

Séamus Healy: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the completion of a bilateral adoption agreement with Russia to allow the many families waiting, the right to adopt from that country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23461/12]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (10 May 2012)

Séamus Healy: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds now closed at South Tipperary General Hospital; the specialties affected; the reason for closure; if these closed beds will be reopened in view of the ongoing number of patients on trolleys on the hospital corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23460/12]

Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (10 May 2012)

Séamus Healy: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health if he will include Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, a long term chronic auto immune disorder as a long term illness and instruct the Health Service Executive to provide much needed information resources and support for Lupus patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23465/12]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (10 May 2012)

Séamus Healy: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health the timescale for the implementation of the budget provision to grant medical cards to persons who qualify for long term illness benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23466/12]

Construction Contracts Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 May 2012)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I ask the Minister to become involved personally in the situation I intend to outline. In Carrick-on-Suir in my constituency a remedial works scheme is being carried out in the Ballylynch area. The area has approximately 160 local authority houses. The scheme was originally very badly designed, with no individual open space, no front gardens...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2012)

Séamus Healy: The household charge.

Private Members' Business. Domiciliary Care Allowance: Motion (8 May 2012)

Séamus Healy: I support this motion and commend the Technical Group on introducing it. The first thing we must realise is that life for families where there is one or more children with special needs is a daily struggle. All of us in this House see parents on a daily basis who explain exactly what life is like for them. It is a struggle and as parents get older they worry how the children will be cared...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 May 2012)

Séamus Healy: I commend the survivors of child abuse, many of whom are in the Visitors Gallery, and in particular those who spoke out. But for that, we still might not be aware of the horrendous situation. It may not have come to light were it not for those people who were courageous enough to speak out at a cost to themselves. They were criticised as being dishonest and as having an agenda against the...

Road Safety Authority (Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2012)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Bill. We must consider the various methods of transport. We should consider whether more advantageous methods of transport of commercial goods are available and whether they should be considered and planned for in the future. I refer to the transport of goods by rail which has fallen out of favour in recent years. However, as a method of...

Private Members' Business. Protection of Employees (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (1 May 2012)

Séamus Healy: Earlier, I heard the Minister of State, Deputy Sherlock, invoke the name of James Connolly. The Labour Party has nothing in common with James Connolly, the great trade unionist, socialist and republican who gave his life for the working classes. There is no doubt but that James Connolly would turn in his grave if he saw the savage attacks the Government, and the Labour Party in particular,...

Private Members' Business. Motorist Emergency Relief Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Séamus Healy: I support this Bill. It is a modest proposal. A total reduction of 5%, including VAT, in the cost of petrol or diesel would certainly be of help to hard-pressed families, particularly those with two individuals driving to work. This is increasingly the case nowadays. Fuel costs almost twice what it cost three or four years ago. In rural constituencies such as my own, a reduction would...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Séamus Healy: I regard the contribution made by the Minister earlier as a smokescreen for what is a serious assault on the incomes of lone parents. It is clear that the package introduced in budget 2012 plus these proposals are a serious assault on the incomes of lone parents. She said she wants lone parents to become financially independent and removed from the poverty trap. It is absurd and ridiculous...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)

Séamus Healy: I, too, ask the Minister to delete this section. I see it as an example of what I described last night as the dismantling of social welfare benefits. These benefits have been won by generations of workers and their unions and this is an example of that targeting. This particular group - single parents - have been targeted not only in this Bill, but in the various proposals outlined in...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Motion to Instruct Committee (24 Apr 2012)

Séamus Healy: I wish to share time with Deputies Boyd Barrett and Luke 'Ming' Flanagan.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Motion to Instruct Committee (24 Apr 2012)

Séamus Healy: I reject this motion and the Bill out of hand. It is difficult to stand here and listen to a Minister introduce this Bill and this series of cutbacks and attacks on people who are very poor. A little more than 12 months ago this Minister would have been on the Opposition benches and would have been hopping mad and dancing a jig in opposition to these amendments and proposals. It is equally...

Written Answers — Army Barracks: Army Barracks (18 Apr 2012)

Séamus Healy: Question 1048: To ask the Minister for Defence the current location of the church bell recently removed from Kickham Barracks Clonmel, County Tipperary; if he will arrange to have the bell returned to Clonmel; the details of any annuity, ground rent or other such payment, if any, payable in respect of Kickham Barracks; the details of protected structures and listed building on the site of...

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2012)

Séamus Healy: This is a household charge.