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Social Services Inspectorate: Motion (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: It is important to make the point, in view of some of the contributions to this debate, that everybody across the political divide is anxious to see our elderly live out their lives at home in their communities and availing of day care centres and sheltered housing. It is only in a situation where they are no longer able to avail of those services that the nursing home option is considered....

Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Does the Taoiseach accept the need for the establishment of a jobs task force for towns such as Carrick-on-Suir?

Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: It arises under No. 46 on the legislative programme, namely, the industrial development amendment Bill.

Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Does the Taoiseach agree that a jobs task force should be established for Carrick-on-Suir, which has an ongoing unemployment rate of 20%? There is another factory closure today, resulting in 53 job losses.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (1 Feb 2006)

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 allocation of funds to provide a quality hospital system for south Tipperary by opening the units costing €40 million and lying idle for approximately three years at Cashel and Clonmel and by relocating the general surgical services at south Tipperary General...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (31 Jan 2006)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of urgent local and national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to remove the cap which is destroying community employment schemes and depriving local communities, towns and villages of necessary community services, and to ask the Minister to make a statement on the matter.

Social Welfare Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Dec 2005)

Séamus Healy: I am delighted to have a few minutes to speak on this Bill. I welcome the increases in benefit that have been announced. However, when one looks at the situation and pulls back the veil of hype, one finds that the increases are not enough even to begin the reversal of the profoundly unequal society the Government has created over the past nine years. The gap between rich and poor has widened...

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Dec 2005)

Séamus Healy: I thank Deputy Breeda Moynihan-Cronin and the Minister of State for sharing time. It is appropriate that we sympathise again with the families in the Kilmore Quay area who have suffered so grievously over recent weeks. I thank the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the Naval Service, the local community and other individuals involved in the search in recent weeks. The tragedy demonstrates...

Requests to Move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (13 Dec 2005)

Séamus Healy: I wish to request the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the immediate need to fully staff and resource the Garda vetting unit now based at Thurles to ensure that all adults working with and having access to children are properly vetted prior to taking up employment and to ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform,...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (6 Dec 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 231: To ask the Minister for Finance if the contract for purchase of the site earmarked for decentralisation in Tipperary town has been signed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38108/05]

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (6 Dec 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 248: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the Clonmel flood alleviation scheme; the funding available for the scheme; the tendering process; the target commencement date for phase two of the scheme; the timescale for completion of the overall scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38109/05]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (6 Dec 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 458: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary and schools in the surrounding area will be designated as a pilot site for one of the 15 temporary pilot cluster posts to be put in place for teaching principals, particularly in view of the lack of qualified substitute teachers in the area; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (6 Dec 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 471: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the dangerous circumstances in which pupils and teachers in one-teacher schools find themselves, she will appoint an additional staff member to a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary and to the other 19 one-teacher primary schools in the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37993/05]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (6 Dec 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 472: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she intends to approve the funding for the erection of an extension, comprising three classrooms, to existing school facilities at a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37994/05]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (6 Dec 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 473: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be approved for the building of a general purpose room at a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37996/05]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (6 Dec 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the immediate need for the Government, particularly the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, to stop the wholesale sacking of community employment workers and supervisors and the destruction of community employment schemes by immediately removing the cap on these schemes; and the need...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (1 Dec 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for the Government to cap the price of building land first recommended in the Kenny report approximately 30 years ago in light of the continued escalation of house prices, a current increase of 7.2%, and the 50,000 families languishing on local authority house waiting lists and to give...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (30 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to appoint additional dedicated community gardaí to every Garda district to deal with the scourge of anti-social behaviour affecting towns and villages which was highlighted this week on Prime Time; and to ask the Minister to make a...

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (29 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 382: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí based at Fethard Garda station, County Tipperary on 1 January 1998 and 1 January 2005; and when the Garda post lost at this station due to the retirement of a Garda will be replaced. [36882/05]

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (29 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 384: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí of all ranks at Garda stations (details supplied) in County Tipperary at 1 January 1998 and 1 January 2005. [36884/05]