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Order of Business (2 Feb 2012)

Séamus Healy: This issue has been raised in every manner. It is about time it was sorted out.

European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Feb 2012)

Séamus Healy: As I have said before in the House, the EU and IMF are not good samaritans helping out a country in need. They are ripping off this country to pay for the reckless lending of European, particularly French and German banks. The major European powers have insisted that the liability of Irish banks be absorbed into Irish State or sovereign debt. The very wealthy in all eurozone countries...

European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Feb 2012)

Séamus Healy: To get to the 3% deficit, we know what is coming down the tracks in terms of reductions and cutbacks of €3.8 billion this year and €3.2 billion next year. Surely, before the Taoiseach agreed to this treaty, he had some idea of what figures are involved in getting us to the 0.5% target to which we are told there must be rapid convergence. Will the Minister of State explain what are the...

Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (1 Feb 2012)

Séamus Healy: On a point of order, is the Minister's speech available?

Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (1 Feb 2012)

Séamus Healy: When?

Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (1 Feb 2012)

Séamus Healy: Shortly. Okay.

Mental Health Services (1 Feb 2012)

Séamus Healy: They were service users and carers. That was the request which the Minister of State accepted.

Written Answers — Insurance Industry: Insurance Industry (1 Feb 2012)

Séamus Healy: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will fund a house insurance scheme for those who cannot access flood insurance due to repeated flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37694/11]

Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Séamus Healy: In the five minutes available to me, I would like to deal with the section in the report dealing with mental health services on pages 48 to 53, and specifically, the item on page 49 in respect of the closure of acute inpatient psychiatric facilities in HSE South. This proposes the closure of 61 beds, 29 of which are in St. Michael's acute psychiatric inpatient unit at South Tipperary General...

Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Séamus Healy: I will finish by asking the Minister to become involved in this and to meet a deputation of stakeholders from south Tipperary on this issue. It is a fundamental breach of the policy but is also a breach of the promises that have been given about other services being in place before any beds close at St. Michael's unit. Those services are not in place and I ask the Minister to clarify the...

Private Members' Business. Small Primary Schools: Motion (31 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: We would not be debating these cuts if the Labour Party and Fine Gael had honoured their election commitments. It is important to recall those commitments. They were going to burn the bondholders, not another red cent would be given to the banks, it would be Labour's way not Frankfurt's way and the weak and vulnerable would be protected. The Government robbed the clothes from Fianna Fáil...

Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: The programme for Government promised legislation to ensure transparency and accountability from the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. Every day, issues arise around this. The Taoiseach himself raised the possibility of developers or those connected to them gaining access to property.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: Legislation was promised in this regard through a freedom of information amendment Bill. Have the heads of the Bill been drawn up and when is the Bill expected before the House, as there are serious issues around NAMA?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: We all know it is the thin end of the wedge. I am around a long time and so is the Minister. As an example of what is likely to happen, I remember well the introduction of refuse charges in south Tipperary. I was at the council meeting where they were introduced and where I voted against them. In the course of that debate a Fianna Fáil Party councillor stood up, took a box of matches from...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: I concur with the remarks of Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan about the €50 registration charge, about which I spoke previously. I remember an election campaign not too long ago during which the Minister and his party told us that they would burn the bondholders-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: I am responding to the Minister. They said there would not be another red cent for the banks.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: It was going to be all change. It was going to be Labour's way, not Frankfurt's way. Talk about hypocrisy.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: In regard to the registration fee, the assurances we have been given are nothing but talk. Regardless of what the Minister says, we all know the fee will not be held at €50 but will instead increase, over a short period, until it reaches the €300 proposed by the Fianna Fáil Party in government.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: I listened to Deputy Michael Creed's contribution. Today we have heard the pot calling the kettle black and vice versa.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: As for the call for honesty, everyone in the House and the country is aware that the Government was elected on a programme of change and a promise of a new beginning. However, it walked into office, took the clothes from the backs of Fianna Fáil and the Green Party and continued to implement the very same programmes.