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Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Accommodation Provision (20 Jun 2017)

Séamus Healy: 6 o’clock This reply is desperately disappointing and unacceptable. It is effectively kicking the can down the road to the Estimates of 2018, which means there will be no movement on this until 2018 at the very earliest. It is condemning patients to life on trolleys in huge numbers over the next autumn-winter period. A trolley bay of 11 has been provided and while it is helpful...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Accommodation Provision (20 Jun 2017)

Séamus Healy: There is a huge bed capacity deficiency at South Tipperary General Hospital. Put very simply, there are not enough beds to cater for the demand for services at the hospital. This has been accepted in recent years by local hospital management, HSE regional management and the management of the south-south west hospital group of which South Tipperary General Hospital is part. The preferred...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Services Infrastructure (20 Jun 2017)

Séamus Healy: 2210. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will expedite the making of an agreement in view of the fact that there is no national agreement between Irish Water and local authorities for the taking in charge of water services infrastructure and that the lack of such a national agreement is delaying the taking in charge process of numerous housing...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Séamus Healy: The cruel capitalist extremist policies of recent governments have devastated Irish society, have devastated low and middle-income families, have created poverty for families and children and have facilitated evictions from family homes. Of course, they have left the country with a chaotic health service and a housing and homeless crisis. In the very short time available to me I want to...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Séamus Healy: Recent Governments drawn from Fianna Fáil, the Green Party, Fine Gael, the Labour Party and now Fine Gael and the Independent Alliance are often rightly described as neo-liberal. While it is correct, it can sometimes be confused by the general public as meaning they are tolerant of different views. The truth is that neo-liberalism is a deliberate policy of supporting the rich and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (30 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding the review of the new tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25522/17]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: I welcome this debate and confirm my support for the motion. I thank Independents 4 Change, and Deputy Connolly in particular, for bringing forward the motion and I commend them on it. I fully support the motion, in particular the call for a root-and-branch review not just of the criteria and policies of Caranua but also its operation. Based on what we know of the conduct of Caranua and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (24 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 188. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when disability allowance payment will commence for a person (details supplied) who has been approved on appeal from April 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24911/17]

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach has not answered the question. The HSE, which is a State agency, is breaking the law. I asked the Taoiseach if he condones that and if he will ensure that does not happen in the future. Unfortunately, since this Government has come to power and Deputy Finian McGrath has taken responsibility for the issue, the position has disimproved. We have gone from a situation where...

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: I am concerned with assessments that have not been commenced. People have been waiting two years.

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: They are being left in limbo.

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: The HSE is deliberately and flagrantly breaking the law by denying children with disabilities their statutory entitlements to assessments of needs. The Disability Act 2005 provides for an assessment of the health and education needs of person with disabilities and provides for services to meet those needs. Section 9(5) provides that the executive shall cause an assessment of applicants to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Eligibility (18 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 166. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when self-employed persons can claim invalidity pensions as announced in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23811/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (10 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 223. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 535 of 7 February 2017, when a reply will issue. [22304/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (9 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 461. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide additional resources to the national bowel screening service to enable it to take the necessary measures to improve the uptake rate; if he will extend the upper age category to 70 to 74 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21905/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (9 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 621. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the review of the roads capital programme; when he will be in a position to confirm the inclusion in the programme of the upgrading of the N24 through County Tipperary, including the Tipperary Town and Carrick on Suir bypasses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21903/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (3 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 259. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an assessment of needs for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21074/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (2 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 94. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the proposed introduction of a new community CCTV scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19556/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Banking Sector Investigations (2 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 214. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will instruct An Garda Síochána to investigate alleged systemic fraud and to question all current and former chief executives of the 15 banks (details supplied); if no consideration of possible damage to the sale value of State-owned banks will deter the Government from insisting on a thorough criminal investigation of this...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (2 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 290. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will recommend that an urgent amendment to the 2013 Act mentioned by a person (details supplied) be undertaken to give the Central Bank all necessary retrospective powers to compel lenders to implement redress and compensation in respect of failures that occurred prior to the 2013 Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20866/17]