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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: We can do things ourselves.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I acknowledge what you have done but there are things you can do, and there are things this country can do, and they can do it now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Something dramatic needs to be done to stop this situation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Big things start small.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: It is a desperate situation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: One million Irish people, the Taoiseach's ancestors and mine, starved to death during the Great Famine in the 1840 and 1850s. Two million of us were driven to cross the Atlantic in coffin ships in search of mere survival. Thousands of us died on those ships. At home, our people died in cabins, in ditches, on the roads and in workhouses. There is hardly a parish in the country that has not...

Trade Union Recognition Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I welcome and strongly support the Trade Union Recognition Bill 2021. I compliment my colleagues in People Before Profit on bringing it forward. Not only do I believe in the right of workers to join a trade union, but I also believe that employers should be obliged to recognise the union and negotiate with it on the pay and conditions of its members. I have been a proud trade unionist...

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Like the previous speaker, I support this Sinn Féin motion. The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, in its report last October, stated that there are obvious areas where Ireland's infrastructure is much underdeveloped. The key areas to which it referred were housing, health, transport and electricity. It stated that when one compares Ireland's infrastructure with that of other high-income...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: The Courts Service recently announced that with effect from 1 November, the court sittings will be transferred from Carrick-on-Suir and Cashel to Clonmel. The decision came completely out of the blue and without any local consultation whatsoever. There appears to be a policy of stripping towns and local communities of locally based services. Youghal is also to lose its court service and,...

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Forty years ago, when I was first elected to Clonmel corporation, one of the first issues I dealt with was childcare. I said at the time that a public childcare service was the solution to what was even then a difficult issue. After more than 25 years involvement in community childcare services in Elm Park in Clonmel, I am more convinced than ever that the public system is the only...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (1 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA-sponsored client visits to the IDA land at Ballingarrane, Clonmel in 2023 and 2024; the steps the IDA will take to find an enterprise for the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21941/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (1 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: This question relates to the IDA-owned site at Ballingarrane in Clonmel. Will the Minister outline the number of IDA-sponsored client visits to that site at Clonmel in 2023 and 2024? What steps will the IDA take to find an enterprise for the site?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (1 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Ballingarrane estate was purchased in 2001 by South Tipperary County Council, in what was a far-seeing decision, to provide a vital piece of infrastructure for industrial development, not just for Clonmel and south Tipperary, but also for the surrounding areas of west Waterford, east Limerick and west Kilkenny. It comprises 270 acres, 50 acres of which are owned by the IDA, as the Minister...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (1 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I remind the Minister that south Tipperary is not in the mid-west region. The IDA must ramp up its marketing of the Ballingarrane site. I am not satisfied that it has done enough. It must do more. I ask the Minister to intervene with the IDA to ramp up that marketing. There are some very successful industries in the area, including flagship industries, such as Abbott Vascular and Boston...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: Any national planning framework will be a failure unless it is underpinned by real and serious consultation with communities and community representatives at local level in a bottom-up approach. Communities must have the opportunity to make representations to statutory, elected democratic bodies to ensure their voices are heard. The only way this will be achieved is by re-establishing local...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: The question of disability services for children with additional needs is now a very significant national issue. It is second only to the housing emergency. The State is failing these children every day. Over 14,000 are waiting for an assessment of need, which is in breach of the law. Some 41,000 are waiting for therapy services and well over 100 are waiting for school places. If we are...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this very important debate on Children's Health Ireland. First, I want to acknowledge the 4,000 staff in the group who do outstanding work on a daily basis. However, the organisation itself is dysfunctional, it is in crisis, and it has experienced a litany of failures. This has led to a series of reviews and reports. The most recent HIQA...

Uisce Éireann: Statements (10 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: Irish Water should be abolished. Of course, it should never have been established. It is not fit for purpose and it is hiding from the public. It has no public offices. It refuses to meet elected representatives in open, democratic forums like county council meetings. Consumers cannot meet any Irish Water official face to face. People can report a problem to a call centre. They may get...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: Before I start, a Cheann Comhairle, you might allow me to congratulate Tina Marie Barrett on securing a school place for her child, Michael Joseph, for this coming September. Following 16 rejection letters and the matter being raised here a number of times, he has secured a place.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: Thank you. There is a serious shortage of bus drivers in this country, yet we continue to insist on an ageist policy on this issue. Drivers over 70 years of age are not allowed to drive school buses, yet these same drivers can drive a bus to the school, pick up students and take them to a football match, a swimming lesson or a school tour. The policy makes no sense. Age is no barrier...