Results 461-480 of 2,967 for speaker:Séamus Healy
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Séamus Healy: I am very sorry too but the Acting Chairman has still not explained to me how this amendment could be out of order.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Séamus Healy: How could a charge arise?
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Séamus Healy: On a point of order-----
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Séamus Healy: On a point of order-----
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Séamus Healy: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle has said he would explain why amendments are out of order. We have gone past amendment No. 12.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Séamus Healy: No one raised the question of the referendum or the existence of Irish Water.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Séamus Healy: The explanatory memorandum for the Bill talks about what is in the Bill. The third paragraph clearly mentions a "number of related issues". Surely, a referendum to keep water services in public ownership is a related issue. Surely, the abolition of Irish Water, a toxic entity which has brought us to where we are tonight-----
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Séamus Healy: -----is a related issue. These issues should be allowed in the Bill.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Séamus Healy: I wish to make a point of order.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Séamus Healy: It relates to the amendments being ruled out of order. Three of my amendments were ruled out of order. I do not understand why. I got a letter from the Ceann Comhairle on the matter but it does not explain why they were ruled out of order.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Séamus Healy: I do not accept that they are out of order. The whole Dáil has accepted that there should be a referendum to put water and water infrastructure into the Constitution to ensure that it remains in public ownership. To rule that out of order is unacceptable and is a slight on the House. It should be part and parcel of this legislation. I put down an amendment to abolish Irish Water....
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Séamus Healy: -----that amendment says that the excessive charge will be -----
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Séamus Healy: This is total inorder or unorder or whatever the Leas-Cheann Comhairle wants to call it.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Séamus Healy: These are real issues. These are the issues on which Deputies in this House were elected at the last election and we are being stopped from discussing them.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Nov 2017)
Séamus Healy: 799. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the position regarding a urology appointment at University Hospital Waterford for a person (details supplied); if this person qualifies for treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46760/17]
- Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)
Séamus Healy: At lunchtime, the so-called Independent Alliance, including the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, and the Ministers of State, Deputies Finian McGrath and Halligan, stated that a criminal investigation was needed into the banks at the centre of the tracker mortgage controversy. They also stated:The allegations of fraud which have been made more than merit a top-level...
- Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)
Séamus Healy: They are not here. They have gone into hiding. They have run away and abandoned the people who have been devastated by the banks in this tracker mortgage scandal. Obviously, the Taoiseach has put it up to them and they have backed down. Shame on the Independent Alliance. Shame on the Minister, Deputy Ross, and the Ministers of State, Deputies Halligan and Finian McGrath. During...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2017)
Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach said the Central Bank has been in contact with the Garda but he knows that no formal complaint has been made either by the Central Bank or the Taoiseach, who is quite entitled to make a complaint. The banks have a 30-year history of scandal after scandal and have been rewarded for that. The public was forced to bail them out to the tune of €64 billion and citizens have...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2017)
Séamus Healy: Has it made a formal complaint?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2017)
Séamus Healy: Has a formal complaint been made?