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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: A panel is urgently needed to deal with this matter. The situation at third level is also significantly difficult and there has been a 32% increase in student numbers, a 10% reduction in staff and, not surprisingly, lecturing staff have an increased workload over and above their European colleagues.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: This is damaging and restricting the contribution of institutes to the country.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: The Minister's reply reminds me of that old adage: everybody is wrong except my Johnny. The ETBs, the Association of Community and Comprehensive Schools, the joint managerial bodies, the trade unions and everybody else have acknowledged there is a significant crisis in recruitment and retention of teachers and it is getting worse. The suggestion that restricting career breaks would help is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I am again calling on the Minister to put in place real measures, including pay parity and a panel-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: -----to deal with this crisis that is not just immediate but is staring us in the face.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (30 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: 127. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 26 October 2017, the estimated cost of the additional multi-role vessel that is proposed for purchase for the Naval Service; if a decision to put the provision of the MRV out to tender has been taken in view of a news report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4263/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: 411. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the shortage of the BCG vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3299/18]

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: In 2010, the Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government and the HSE decided to close the 50 bed acute psychiatric unit for inpatients at St. Michael's unit, South Tipperary General Hospital in Clonmel. The unit catered for patients suffering from mental illness from all over County Tipperary. There was no consultation whatsoever with stakeholders about the decision. The first patients, family...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: The situation at the department of psychiatry at St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny is outrageous, disgraceful and unacceptable. As the Minister is aware, there has been a cluster of unexplained deaths associated with the unit. Tipperary patients are suffering delayed admissions due to the overcrowding as well as inappropriate early discharges. Travel and visiting difficulties make it...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important issue. First, I want to confirm my support for the holding of a referendum, my support for the recommendations of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution and my support for the repeal of the eighth amendment. I wish to thank the members of the Citizens' Assembly, the joint committee and all those who have made...

Section 39 Agency Staff Reimbursements: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: I have been a trade unionist from the very first day I went to work, which was summer work in Clonmel Foods in Clonmel. I joined the Irish Transport and General Workers Union as it was then. I then moved to work in Bulmers where I became a member of the Federation of Rural Workers. Following that, I moved to a leather factory where I became a member of the Amalgamated Transport and General...

Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: I support this Private Members' motion on hospital trolleys. I also welcome the approval for the 40-bed modular unit for South Tipperary General Hospital announced last year. That unit is expected to be up and running before the end of autumn 2018. The county lost 90 beds in various cutbacks, including 50 beds when St. Vincent's hospital in Tipperary town was closed. We need another 50...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: Ar an gcéad dul síos ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an Aire Stáit as ucht a bheith anseo anocht chun an rún seo a fhreagairt. Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil chomh maith leis an mbord bainistíochta – na tuismitheoirí, na múinteoirí agus le foireann uilig na gaelscoile i gCluain Meala as ucht an tsár-oibre...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Minister of State for her response, although we were aware of most of the points made. This has been a long-delayed project. I again ask the Minister of State to ensure the project is in the capital programme to be announced shortly and that it is funded for construction to commence in this year. It has been a long and tortuous process over the last 23 years. It had been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: 456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of a new school building; and if confirmation that funding will be included in the upcoming capital programme for a school (details supplied). [1930/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (16 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: 1667. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reverse the 2012 changes to the State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1794/18]

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: Section 38 is not agreed to.

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: Section 39 is not agreed to.

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: It is not agreed to.

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: The Bill makes major and disadvantageous changes to trade union and industrial relations procedures. Effectively, the Government is introducing by law punishments for unions and individuals that take a different view from their employers. That is outrageous. The silence of the leadership of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions is absolutely deafening. This legislation sets an extraordinary...