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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (17 Apr 2018)

Séamus Healy: 1346. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to reintroduce the three enrolment points to the ECCE programme in view of the fact that some children will wait an inordinately long period for enrolment due to recent changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16693/18]

Government Response to Salisbury Attack: Statements (27 Mar 2018)

Séamus Healy: I hold no brief, and nor do the Irish people, for the Russian Government, the British Government, the United States Government or indeed the Franco-German EU-NATO alliance. These big nuclear powers are looking after their own interests and the last thing on their minds is the interests of Ireland or the Irish people. All have records of total disregard for human beings and all have been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (27 Mar 2018)

Séamus Healy: 433. To ask the Minister for Health if core funding will be made available to an association (details supplied) for its helpline, its advocacy work and to support its branch structure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14076/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Séamus Healy: 434. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish nationwide Parkinson's nurse specialist service and surgical service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14077/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (27 Mar 2018)

Séamus Healy: 539. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the marking system in respect of an application for a sports capital grant by a centre (details supplied) will be clarified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14126/18]

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Séamus Healy: In the short time available to me, I wish to welcome the Bill, which provides for a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment, and confirm my support for it. I will be supporting repeal in the referendum. It is 35 years since Article 40.3.3° was enshrined in the Constitution. In 1983, I publicly opposed and voted against that amendment. I did so because I believed then, as I do now,...

Motor Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (27 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to say a few words in this debate. I acknowledge the work of the Rural Independent Group in bringing forward this motion. It is important to say that the motor insurance industry is hugely profitable but there are very serious issues within and between companies and in the industry's dealings with various categories of drivers. Allegations of anti-competitive and...

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I wish to raise again a very serious matter that I and other Members have raised previously. It relates to the procedure and process for the assessment of needs of children with disabilities. The Department of Health and the HSE are breaching the law on a daily basis in this regard. The Minister is aware that, under the Disability Act 2005, the assessment of needs must begin no later than...

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Minister. While I welcome his reply, it is very similar to one I received six months ago from the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath. The situation has certainly not improved. If anything, it has disimproved. Children in Tipperary are routinely obliged to wait up to 18 months and or two years for these assessments. I put it to the Minister that this is in breach of the...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I will wind up now. This plan must be revisited and it must be reversed. Tipperary must get its fair share of investment and it must have towns prioritised for economic growth and investment. This is, effectively, an election manifesto produced and hyped with taxpayers' money and without any legal foundation.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: Where is the N24?

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: The N24 is not a vanity project.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: On a point of order-----

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: Is the Minister stating that the N24 motorway is a vanity project?

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: Is the Minister stating that every Tipperary town should be excluded from this plan?

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: County Tipperary has been snubbed in this national development plan. It is a county with a population of approximately 160,000 and is the sixth largest county by area in the country and the second largest in the southern region. In its submission and contribution to the plan, Tipperary County Council sought to ensure that the county plays an important and central part in the future of...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (20 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: 107. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 26 October 2017, the estimated cost of the proposed additional multi-role vessel (MRV) for the Naval Service in view of the fact members of the Defence Forces travelled to New Zealand recently to examine similar vessels; if the estimate includes purchase of helicopters for use on the flight deck of...

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I compliment Deputy Pearse Doherty and Sinn Féin on bringing forward the Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018. I support its passage through the House. I support any measure which would help put manners on the banks. Light-touch regulation means no regulation, as we have seen through the years. Senior bankers have no moral compass and simply cannot be trusted. The banks have a 30 year...

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I ask the Minister to accede to the request to meet a deputation from Tipperary.

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the motion, which I will support. I will also support the Sinn Féin amendment. It is fine for Deputies living in Dublin and other major cities but if they had to drive around rural constituencies every week, as rural Deputies must, they would find that local and regional roads are in an atrocious condition. It is barely possible to drive on many of them and the rural bus...