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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...

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: I commend Deputy O'Reilly of Sinn Féin for proposing the motion. The motion and the whole waiting lists scandal emphasises again the dysfunctional nature of the HSE and the fact that it is not fit for purpose. There is absolutely no democratic control of the HSE. It should never have been established. Many of us who voted against its establishment warned of situations just like this...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (14 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: 50. 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 docked at an Italian port since 25 July 2017; the number of occasions on which migrants and refugees have been put ashore at an Italian port directly by an Irish vessel participating in Operation Sophia since the same date; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (12 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: 865. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an assessment of needs for a child (details supplied) at HSE south Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25449/18]

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: I am sharing time with Deputy Catherine Murphy. I welcome the Bill and confirm my support for it. The measures included in it would certainly be helpful to the hundreds of thousands of people who are privately renting at the moment. The measures are reasonable, common-sense and fair. They are not groundbreaking and will not solve the housing crisis but they will certainly be helpful to...

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: The Labour Party is directly responsible for the current housing emergency. It was in government from 2011 to 2016 and held both junior and senior Ministries in housing during that period. In the coalition with Fine Gael, Labour Party Deputies could have ensured the building of large-scale public housing by local authorities-----