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Waste Reduction Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the Bill and compliment the Green Party and the Labour Party on bringing it forward and confirm my support for it. It is a short but significant and important Bill. Section 3 will ban the sale or free distribution of non-compostable tableware, while section 4 will introduce a deposit and return scheme for beverage containers. Plastic pollution is everywhere. According to the...

Leader's Questions (11 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: We are not asking for a block. We are asking for temporary accommodation, which is accepted by everyone.

Leader's Questions (11 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach's reply is absolutely disappointing and unacceptable. As the Taoiseach, the HSE, the management of the hospital and the management of the south-south west hospital group well know, the situation in South Tipperary General Hospital is absolutely atrocious. Everyone accepts the hospital's lack of bed capacity. This may be the fifth year that various Ministers and Ministers of...

Leader's Questions (11 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: South Tipperary General Hospital is a progressive, forward-looking and efficient hospital, but it has a major problem with a lack of bed capacity. Simply put, there are not enough beds to cope with the number of admissions. That this is a problem has been accepted by hospital management, the regional HSE management and the South/South West hospital group management. The figures are...

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: There is nothing old-fashioned about that.

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: The policy of reliance on the market has created a housing emergency. A total of 91,000 families are on local authority housing lists, a number that has doubled since 2005. There are 21,000 families on housing assistance payment, HAP. There is a homelessness crisis, including 2,700 children in homeless accommodation and many thousands more are couch-surfing and doubling up with relatives...

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: It brings pressure.

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: The Deputy addressed me.

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: I am entitled to respond to him. He is talking nonsense as usual.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (6 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the allocation of special needs assistants and resource teacher hours is expected to be announced in view of the fact that the delay is causing considerable difficulty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31870/17]

Early Childhood Care and Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: In the two minutes available to me, I want to welcome all those in the Visitors Gallery who are involved in the child care area. I compliment Deputy Kathleen Funchion on bringing forward this Private Members' motion. She is very well briefed and has a very good understanding of the service. I will be supporting this motion. I have been involved in this area for the past 15 years as a...

Topical Issue Debate: National Broadband Plan Implementation (5 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: The lack of high-speed broadband is squeezing the life out of rural Ireland. There is widespread concern and dismay that it might be delayed further. I welcome 15,000 premises, or the one third, which will get high-speed broadband within the next 18 months, but what about the other two thirds, the other 30,000? When will they get it? From reports and from a question to which the Minister...

Topical Issue Debate: National Broadband Plan Implementation (5 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: Central Statistic Office figures released recently show that County Tipperary had a number of unemployment blackspots. That is an area where there is more than 27% unemployment. The figure across the county was significantly higher than the national average. A number of electoral divisions, 26 in all, including places like Farranrory, Mullinahone, Fethard, Ballingarry, Littleton,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (5 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: 21. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to legislate before the summer recess to make certain that a tax-avoidance loophole cannot continue in view of the report in a newspaper (details supplied). [31794/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (5 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: Since 2011, up to 200 high net worth individuals, in other words wealthy and powerful people in society, including many household names, have been involved in a tax scam allowing them to avoid paying up to €500 million in tax. This involves the transfer of valuable rights attaching to shares in a company to shares owned by its members. I ask the Minister to put a stop to this once...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (5 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: I am simply not happy with the Minister's reply. My question relates to the future. We understand that this matter has been before the courts. The Circuit Court has found in favour of the Revenue Commissioners but we are aware that there is an appeal pending. We obviously cannot interfere with what happens in the courts but what happens in the future is not a matter for the courts; it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (5 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: Again, what I am referring to is the future. It is a matter for the Government to ensure that the activity in question is precluded in the future. The Minister referred to budgets in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Issues arose in those budgets since the profits of banks are now not taxable until 2047. The question of the taxing of vulture funds was addressed in those budgets. This matter needs to...

Waste Disposal: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: I was a member of Clonmel Corporation when the authority introduced domestic waste charges at £5 per year. I opposed the charge on the basis that it was the thin end of the wedge and it would lead to charges of £300 or £400 per family. I also argued the waiver scheme for low-income families and those with health problems would be abolished over time. I stated that as sure as...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (4 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: 310. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the names and positions of those who attended a meeting between the National Monuments Service and officials of Tipperary County Council on 13 June 2017; the location in which the meeting was held; the duration of the meeting; the items on the agenda; the correspondence and documents that were provided to attendees; if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the shortage of the BCG vaccine here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30977/17]