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

Séamus Healy: -----but they chose not to. Shame on them for that. Their predecessors, Labour Party Ministers in the past, built thousands upon thousands of houses. This Labour Party could have done the same but chose to abandon that approach and to embrace the market.

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

Séamus Healy: It embraced privatisation and now we have what we knew we would have, namely, a disastrous housing situation leaving 10,000 people homeless. Deputy Kelly as Minister told us he could not do anything about rent certainty because of the Constitution. Deputy Jan O'Sullivan introduced the outrageous HAP scheme, a bonanza for landlords and desperate for families that have not got two ha'pennies...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: I welcome this Bill and commend Deputies Ó Broin and Funchion on bringing it forward. I thank the students, particularly those in DCU and in Galway, who first brought this to public attention. There is no doubt that the objective of this Bill to include student tenancies under the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 giving them access to rent pressure...

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (29 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: With the minute available to me, I commend and thank each and every member of the Tipperary Together for Yes group. They organised the campaign in Tipperary brilliantly. They brought commitment, courage, energy and enthusiasm to that campaign and as one who campaigned against and voted against the amendment in 1983, I welcome the resounding success. I would like to see the legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (29 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: 258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to restore and increase the capitation grants to primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23591/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Courses Availability (29 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the courses that are available at the LIT campus, Clonmel for the coming academic year; the courses that have been withdrawn from LIT Campus, Clonmel for the coming academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23596/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (29 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will restore the SNA position and hours for a school (details supplied) and the ASD unit in the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23597/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (22 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: 372. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to the Jigsaw project in County Tipperary to provide an appropriate early intervention mental health service for the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22196/18]

Palestine: Statements (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: I condemn in the strongest possible terms the latest massacre of unarmed Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces. Last Monday, 14 May, was the single deadliest day for Palestinians in the occupied territories in over four years. The Great March of Return protests took place on the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the expulsion - perhaps it might be better explained as ethnic cleansing - of...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: The hypocrisy in the House tonight is absolutely breathtaking. The Fianna Fáil Party abolished the local authority public house building programme and handed it over to the private market. The Fine Gael Government since 2011 embraced the abolition of the public housing programme and embraced the privatisation of the housing programme. It has made matters worse ever since. The Labour...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the allocation of an additional post under circular 0010/2018 for a school (details supplied) will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20820/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (15 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: 414. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request funding from the HSE towards the establishment of stroke survivor groups in south County Tipperary and the engagement of co-ordinators to facilitate this process (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21276/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (15 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: 423. To ask the Minister for Health if a dedicated stroke specialist nurse at South Tipperary General Hospital will be appointed; the efforts that have been made to recruit for the post which has been vacant since January 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21304/18]

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: There will be no real reform in the health service until the HSE is abolished. It is accountable to nobody. It was set up precisely to allow Ministers and Government to evade responsibility for problems such as the CervicalCheck scandal. We have to remember the HSE was established by the extreme capitalist free marketeer, the former Minister, Mary Harney, and supported by former Taoiseach,...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (8 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: I agree that the response shows a shocking ignorance of the situation in Tipperary, north and south. Patients from south Tipperary have to travel to Kilkenny for inpatient care. North Tipperary patients have to go to Ennis. Neither unit is fit for purpose. The Kilkenny unit is continually overcrowded, there are delayed admissions as a result, there are inappropriate early discharges and...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (8 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: Along with my two colleagues, Deputies Mattie McGrath and Cahill, I attended a powerful but heartbreaking public meeting last Thursday night in Clonmel, which called for the reopening of closed beds at St. Michael's unit in the town. It was shocking to hear many contributors say they were satisfied that their loved ones would be alive today if those beds had been open. The closure of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: 307. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a urology inpatient procedure at Limerick University Hospital for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19826/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Register (8 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: 472. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to allow British citizens living here to vote in referenda and presidential elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19749/18]

Mental Health Parity Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Mental Health Parity Bill 2017. I compliment Deputy Browne on bringing it forward and I confirm my support for the Bill. The Bill represents another step in the journey to bring mental health into the heart of the community and give it equal status with physical health. When I think of the journey of institutional care to the centrality of...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: I commend Deputy O'Sullivan on this child protection legislation, the aim of which is to protect children and vulnerable adults from sexual predators. This is a vast industry said to be a $32 billion one, only behind the arms race. Approximately 4.5 million young people and vulnerable adults are trapped in this sex tourism industry on an ongoing basis. The common denominator in this area...