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Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (18 Sep 2018)

Séamus Healy: I confirm my support for this Private Members' motion on the future of the post office network. This issue raises the whole question of democracy in this country and the relevance of this Dáil. The motion passed here in November 2016, agreed unanimously by the House, meant - or should mean - that the post office network would be supported and improved and that, as the motion stated, "a...

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: I will be brief. I am conscious of the fact so many Deputies want to speak on this. I welcome the Bill and commend Deputy Pringle on bringing it forward. He put a lot of energy and commitment into it over a long period of time. I know there has been a lot of engagement. He has engaged with all political parties and none across the House on it. The outcome is very important legislation....

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: I wish to raise mental health services in Tipperary again. My constituency colleagues and I have raised this matter on a number of occasions since the closure of St. Michael's acute psychiatric unit in Clonmel. There are now no inpatient psychiatric beds in north or south Tipperary. Patients in north Tipperary, which was in the old Mid-Western Health Board area, must attend the unit in...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: I acknowledge the commitment and involvement of the Minister of State on this issue. He has met deputations on a number of occasions and has visited Clonmel to see the services. We have always acknowledged the policy in A Vision for Change which would transfer the majority of services on a priority basis to community services. We have never had an issue with that and have always supported...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Services (11 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: 362. To ask the Minister for Health if a separate waiting room will be made available at the emergency department at South Tipperary General Hospital for patients presenting with mental health issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31352/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Housing Rents (10 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Minister of State for the response but it is the usual Department script. We need to know why, nine years after the 2009 Act, the rent differential scheme is not yet a reserved function for local authority members. It is now four years since the introduction of the Housing Act 2014. Reserving this function for local authority members is an element of both Acts. Will the...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Housing Rents (10 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: Draconian rent increases for local authority tenants have been introduced by Tipperary County Council since 2 July. It has no regard for the effects these huge increases have on the tenants concerned. They have been introduced without the specific approval of the local councillors, on the basis that management claims the making of a differential rent scheme is a function for the manager and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (10 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: 695. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request those hospitals which have introduced an €80 charge for venesection procedures for hemochromatosis patients to cancel this charge in view of the fact that no such charge applies for dialysis and chemotherapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31016/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (10 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: 925. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the section of the Local Government Act 2014 that makes the making of a differential rent scheme a reserved function of elected local authority members will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30309/18]

Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: I welcome this Bill, commend Deputy Wallace for bringing it forward and confirm my support for it. As a very young clerical officer in South Tipperary Council County Council in 1973, 45 years ago, I remember the publication of this report. There was widespread support for it and for its implementation. Unfortunately the Government of the day and Governments since bent to landowners and now...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: 5. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to open adult inpatient psychiatric beds in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28609/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: This raises again the need for the provision of a properly resourced, properly funded and integrated mental health service for County Tipperary with particular reference to the need to reopen adult inpatient psychiatric beds wrongly closed at St. Michael's unit in Clonmel in 2012.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: I acknowledge the interest and involvement of the Minister of State in this issue since his appointment. As he said, he met representatives of the Save Our Acute Hospital Services Committee and Oireachtas Members on two occasions in Leinster House. He has visited the services in Clonmel and met all the stakeholders involved, including mental health service management in the south east....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: The representatives of the Save Our Acute Hospital Services Committee have met mental health service management on three occasions. On the most recent occasion, they accepted that there is a need for additional beds in the area and that south Tipperary has a strong case. They also indicated that the Minister of State's involvement at a future meeting would be helpful and I ask again if he...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Data (28 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: 94. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of occasions on which a Naval Service vessel participating in Operation Sophia in the Mediterranean Sea transferred migrants and refugees from an Irish vessel to another vessel at sea; the number transferred in each case; the national designation of the ship to which they were transferred in each case; the port at which the...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach is right about one thing anyway: what is happening is terrible. The detention centres, torture, rape and violation of human rights in these camps and detention centres in Libya are unacceptable. The United Nations, Amnesty International and Médecins sans Frontières all say that the Taoiseach, his Government and the EU are colluding in torture, rape and gross abuse of...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: The UNHCR said it.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: Since Operation Pontus in the Mediterranean became Operation Sophia, the number of refugees landing in Italy has more than halved. For a considerable time, there has been serious concern that the price that the EU and Ireland are prepared to pay for stemming migration is the gross abuse of the human rights of migrants. The Irish office of Amnesty International has stated, "The Libyan...

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

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Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the summer economic statement. The document produced by the Minister is absolutely out of touch with reality. It promises more of the same. It balances the books and promises more crises in the health service, a continuation of the emergency in housing and a continuation of the underfunding and under-resourcing in education. It promises to continue...