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Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (4 Apr 2007)

Séamus Healy: Question 255: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will ensure that the existing compliment of teaching, learning support and resource staff at a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary, be maintained for the school year 2007/2008 in view of the increase in the school population in Bansha and the surrounding area due to increased local authority and private home...

Written Answers — Archaeological Sites: Archaeological Sites (3 Apr 2007)

Séamus Healy: Question 248: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will develop Ormonde Castle, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary as a significant heritage site including the building of a visitor centre, bus and car parking facilities and a new entrance roadway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12940/07]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (3 Apr 2007)

Séamus Healy: Question 672: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will approve the Ballylynch, Carrick-on-Suir regeneration scheme currently being discussed by his Department and the officials of Carrick-on-Suir Town Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12948/07]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (3 Apr 2007)

Séamus Healy: Question 675: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will approve the Wilderness/Carrigeen regeneration scheme in Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12963/07]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (29 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Finance to abolish, not least drastically reduce, fees for freedom of information appeals in view of the fact that since the introduction of fees, the number of requests under the FOI Act has reduced by 59% and the number of appeals to the Information Ombudsman has fallen by...

Appointments to Public Bodies Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: I wish to share time with Deputies Catherine Murphy, McHugh and Joe Higgins.

Appointments to Public Bodies Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Appointments to Public Bodies Bill 2007 and compliment the Green Party on introducing it. This is an important debate, but that the matter has appeared on the Order Paper so late in the Dáil is a pity. The legislation's background is the fact that politics have been devalued during the years by broken promises and a lack of trust. For example,...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (28 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter requiring urgent attention: the need for the Minister of State at the Department of Finance to develop Ormond Castle, Carrick-on-Suir as a significant heritage site, including the erection of a visitor centre, the provision of car and bus parking facilities and the need for the Minister of State to make a...

Ambulance Service. (8 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for this opportunity to raise this issue once again. I am calling for the putting in place of an emergency ambulance service for Carrick-on-Suir. I have lost count of the number of times I have raised this issue during the course of this Dáil with the current Minister and her predecessors. I appeal to the Minister to at last approve what would be a life-saving...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (8 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill because I am not happy with it. It arises from the November 2006 Supreme Court judgment which struck down the necessity for an Independent candidate to present 30 assentors to his or her nomination at a central location. That system replaced the deposit system which was a deliberate attempt by the Government to make it more difficult for...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (8 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: Many who did not return their form owing to reasons of sickness or illiteracy will find that their names are no longer on the register and that they cannot vote. The matter of the supplementary register was raised with the Minister. It is difficult to have one's name included in the supplementary register, as this can only be done by having one's application certified at a Garda station. In...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (8 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: It would not.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (8 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of urgent national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Education and Science to implement the commitment in the programme for Government to radically reduce primary school class sizes and to ensure that no child of eight years of age or younger will be in a class of more than 20, having regard to the...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (7 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: I wish to request the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a specific matter requiring urgent attention, namely, the need for the immediate location of an emergency ambulance service for the town of Carrick-on-Suir, as the existing service being provided from Waterford and Clonmel is unable to meet acceptable response times, thereby placing the lives of heart attack...

Written Answers — Heritage Sites: Heritage Sites (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: Question 229: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that the Swiss Cottage, Cahir, County Tipperary opens as scheduled on 8 March 2007 and continues to remain open as usual for the remainder of the season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8627/07]

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he has taken in view of the continued unprecedented unemployment levels affecting the town of Carrick-on-Suir (details supplied) since his appointment to address this unacceptable situation; the action he will take; the number of site visits to the town in 2006 organised by the various industrial promotion...

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: Is the Minister for real? Is he not aware that 890 persons in Carrick-on-Suir are signing on the live register, and this has probably been a consistent figure over the past ten years? The figure reached a maximum of approximately 950 but has hovered around the 900 mark for about ten years. This represents approximately 25% unemployment in the town. Would the Minister accept that his...

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: I asked if the Minister would accept there is a long-term and unacceptably high level of unemployment in Carrick-on-Suir, and whether a jobs task force consisting of high-profile heavy hitters is necessary to do something for employment in the town. I plead with the Minister to set up such a jobs task force because the town has done its part over the last number of years. It has become...

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: There are nearly 900 people unemployed, that is the reality.

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: It is the reality.