Results 2,801-2,820 of 2,967 for speaker:Séamus Healy

Public Finances. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Some 20% are unemployed in Carrick-an-Suir.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise the following matter of urgent national importance: the need for the Minister for Social and Family Affairs to double the winter fuel allowance payable to social welfare recipients in view of the recent 25% increase in the price of gas from 1 October and the fact that the €9 fuel allowance will not now even buy a...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (4 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need to remove the funding cap imposed in 2002 on Rape Crisis centres and services for support of women who have experienced domestic violence and that these services be adequately funded in the forthcoming budget to ensure that a full and effective service is provided by these organisations.

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed). (29 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: I support the motion, which asks the Comptroller and Auditor General to review and report to the Oireachtas on the procedure concerning the purchase of the land in question. I listened to Deputy Hoctor commend the Minister for his work in the area of justice. I would remind her of the 2,000 gardaí we were to have under the programme for Government, the absence of community gardaí in many...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (29 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: I wish to request the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of urgent national importance, namely the need for the Government to honour its election promise and programme for Government by introducing maximum class guidelines to ensure the pupil-teacher ratio for children under nine years of age is below international best practice of 1:20. Government inaction...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: I wish to request the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of urgent national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to expand the terms of reference of the Hartnett-Rossiter inquiry and to establish the inquiry under recent public inquiry legislation introduced by the Minister instead of the out of date Dublin Police...

Unemployment Levels. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken to address the very serious and long-standing unemployment levels in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary since he met a deputation from the town council and Oireachtas Members on 19 July 2005; the number of site visits to Carrick-on-Suir the industrial promotion agencies have arranged since that date;...

Unemployment Levels. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: In view of the Minister's reply today and his replies to other questions in the last session is it not true that he has washed his hands of job creation in Carrick-on-Suir? Since the deputation met the Minister on 19 July last, no job has been created and there has been no site visit to the town. The Minister and the Government have abandoned the town of Carrick-on-Suir. There are 960 people...

Unemployment Levels. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: Eight years later the town still has the same number unemployed.

Unemployment Levels. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: Is the Minister not aware that Carrick-on-Suir already has strengths? It is on the N24 and is within 15 miles of Waterford city and its airport. It is a fine town. It is tenable to demand that jobs be created in Carrick-on-Suir for at least some of the 960 people who have been unemployed there for the past ten years. There are more people unemployed in the town today than there were when this...

Unemployment Levels. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: We want Government action.

Unemployment Levels. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: There are 960 people out of work.

Written Answers — Liquor Licensing Laws: Liquor Licensing Laws (21 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 505: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the controls he intends to introduce to control the proliferation of off-licences; the further controls he intends to introduce to prohibit access by underage young persons to alcohol from off-licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21130/05]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (21 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 506: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will consider grant aiding an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21131/05]

Written Answers — Closed Circuit Television Systems: Closed Circuit Television Systems (21 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 507: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the installation of closed circuit television cameras for the towns of Clonmel, Carrick-on-Suir and Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21137/05]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (21 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 531: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the appointment of a special needs teacher to schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20728/05]

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion (Resumed). (15 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: The last paragraph of this motion calls on the Government to provide the necessary resources and direction to the Garda to ensure that existing legislation is enforced and public disorder related to so-called superpubs is tackled consistently. At 2 a.m. in every village, town and city during weekends thousands of young people with nowhere to go spill on to the streets from these pubs and...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (15 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of urgent importance, namely the fact the south-east region has consistently lagged behind, and continues to do so, in regard to investment and job creation with the result that Carrick-on-Suir has over 20% unemployment, to allow the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to make a statement on the matter and...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (14 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 696: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be approved for the operation of a school (details supplied) attached to the Central Technical Institute, Clonmel; when the necessary additional teaching staff will be approved to allow the coláiste to progress to its second year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19165/05]

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (14 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 697: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the application by south Tipperary VEC for a person to be based in Fethard, County Tipperary, under the grant scheme for special projects for youth 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19166/05]