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Written Answers — Third Level Institutions: Third Level Institutions (12 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will take immediate action to end the abuses of employment law in universities and other third level institutions, under which postdoctoral researchers are deprived of continuity of employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7587/11]

Health Service Reform (12 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: I congratulate the Minister on his appointment and wish him well. Will the Minister confirm that the hospital reconfiguration programme is parked and that an instruction to this effect has been accepted by the HSE officials? I was disappointed that the Minister did not set out in his reply the detail of the process. When does he envisage that the review process will commence? How will it...

Hospitals Building Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: Are we not taking Question No. 54 with that?

Health Service Reform (12 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to his announcement of a review of the general hospital reconfiguration process, the nature of the proposed review; its terms of reference; the persons who will carry out the review; the involvement of all stakeholders including staff, patients, service users and the public; the timescale involved; and if he will make a...

Criminal Justice (Community Service) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: I welcome and support the Bill in particular because of the savings that will arise from the implementation of its provisions. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan has indicated some of the figures involved, with savings of between €4,000 and €27,000 and there is obviously a strong economic argument for the Bill. I wish to focus on prevention as opposed to punishment. I regard social investment as...

Water and Sewerage Schemes (6 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: I congratulate the Minister on his appointment and wish him well in future. I also thank him for responding to the matter I raise, namely, a request to commence and complete at an early date the Fethard regional water supply scheme in south Tipperary. People in the area, whose main settlements are Fethard, Strangan, Mullinahone, Killenaule and their hinterlands, have suffered for years...

Bank Bailout and EU-IMF Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: Like the organisation I represent, the Workers and Unemployed Action Group South Tipperary, I am committed to an alternative Ireland that unites working people, whether public or private sector or Irish or migrant, with the unemployed, social welfare recipients, pensioners and students in a struggle to change society. I favour an end to the bailout of banks and developers and a refusal to...

Bank Bailout and EU-IMF Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: The guarantee to large investors and bondholders must be revoked and small individual investors in credit unions must be compensated. There must be a default on repayments to international finance houses. The payment of the cíos dubh - €5 billion this year and €9 billion by 2014 as a minimum - is unsustainable and will devastate families, the economy and the country if it continues....

Bank Bailout and EU-IMF Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: I will be voting against the Government amendment, which encapsulates a continuation of the disastrous Fianna Fáil-Green Party policy. It is a mistake to become allied with extreme right-wing forces. It creates confusion and impedes the political reorganisation of the people, who alone can impose a solution in their interest.

Bank Reorganisation: Statements (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: The previous Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government, and now the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government, would have us believe that the EU and IMF are good samaritans helping out a neighbour in trouble. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Irish taxpayer is being forced to bail out bankers, particularly German, French and British bankers, who have gambled recklessly and lost but who now...

Bank Reorganisation: Statements (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: I am appalled by the fact that the Irish people have been led into subordination to Britain, Germany and France, as well as the bankers and speculators of these countries, through the EU-IMF deal. I am appalled by the loss, through this deal, of sovereignty and independence. This is a real national, economic and social emergency and I believe the guarantee should be revoked and that small...

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Séamus Healy: I accept the findings of the Moriarty tribunal. While I fully accept the right and entitlement of the people of north Tipperary to elect Deputy Lowry to Dáil Éireann, I believe that in the circumstances, he should resign. In light of this report, there is a need for a fundamental change of ethos in Irish politics if political life is to be redeemed. We have heard more of the same in this...

Family Support Services (30 Mar 2011)

Séamus Healy: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she intends to reverse the cuts in carer's allowance implemented by the previous Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6211/11]

Family Support Services (30 Mar 2011)

Séamus Healy: I concur with previous speakers in congratulating the Minister on her appointment and wishing her well for the future. If my eyes were closed, I would have thought it was a Minister from the previous Government who was giving the reply to this question. We are dealing with the one of the most vulnerable sections of society. I understood that the Government was going to be fair and balanced...

Family Support Services (30 Mar 2011)

Séamus Healy: Is the Minister aware that carers earn about €1.20 per hour and work 168 hours per week? Is she aware that 160,000 carers work about 3.7 million hours per week and save the State about €2.5 billion per year? Is it not reasonable that this section of our community should be exempt from any cutbacks? There is a huge contrast between how carers are being dealt with and how very wealthy...

Family Support Services (30 Mar 2011)

Séamus Healy: Can I ask a supplementary question?

Corporation Tax: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2011)

Séamus Healy: I am thankful for the opportunity to say a few words on this motion, which I will support. To bow to the demands of Mr. Sarkozy and Ms Merkel would be to compromise further Irish sovereignty and set this State on a slide towards unprecedented powerlessness. It would be the first of many demands as bullies always return for more. We simply cannot allow Ireland to be bullied by large...

Programme for Government: Motion (15 Mar 2011)

Séamus Healy: We have heard already from various speakers that the programme for Government is about change, reform and all being in this together. However, one of the most important and significant questions to be asked about the programme for Government is who pays for the recession. As always, we find that low and middle income earners and poor people are being forced to pay for this recession, a...

Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Mar 2011)

Séamus Healy: I oppose the nomination of Deputy Enda Kenny as Taoiseach. The programme for Government is a deep betrayal of working people, the poor and families on low and middle incomes. We see no serious change in the programme, which is a continuation of the Fianna Fáil-Green Party policies in what is now a more unfavourable environment for the public. The continuation of the universal social...

Water Services Bill 2003 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Apr 2007)

Séamus Healy: Water is a basic necessity of life and citizens should have a statutory entitlement to good quality water that is free from impurities and from anything that might give rise to illness. This right should be a statutory right enshrined in legislation. Issues that have arisen in recent times and in the past mean that water supplies in various areas of the country are not fit for human...