Results 41-60 of 2,932 for speaker:Séamus Healy

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: The Minister and the Department know all about the school. They know all about it.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Yield (20 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the revenue generated from motor tax in County Tipperary in the years of 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [12959/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 276. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in Tipperary that applied for the Power Up grant; the number of the applications that were successful; and the total value of the grants approved. [12961/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding provided for capital projects for schools in County Tipperary from 2021 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [12958/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (20 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 348. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the capital disregard of farm assist to €34,000. [12960/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (20 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 403. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide details of autism assessment waiting times in CHO 5. [12962/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 436. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE community orthoptist posts in the CHO5 area in the year 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [12957/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Men's Sheds (19 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: As the Minister has said, the continued existence and sustainability of men's sheds is vital for a number of reasons and he mentioned some of them there. They provide support for members by tackling a range of physical and mental health conditions and helping to provide inherent health benefits to a quarter of the population who are disproportionately affected by health issues. They also...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Men's Sheds (19 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Minister for Rural and Community Development for coming to the Chamber to respond to this issue, which concerns men's sheds. I have been contacted by 17 different men's sheds in County Tipperary, including those in Ballagh, Ballina, Borrisokane, Cahir, Carrick-on-Suir, Cashel, Clogheen, Clonmel, Fethard, Glengoole, Moycarky, Mullinahone, Nenagh, Roscrea, Silvermines, Thurles...

Report of the Housing Commission: Statements (Resumed) (19 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: The right to housing is a human right, enshrined in Article 25 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The UN rapporteur on the right to housing reiterated that position, saying that although increasingly viewed as a commodity, housing is, most importantly, a human right. The Housing Commission report seeks to vindicate that human right. It says that housing must be a unique,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 982. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to increase the income limits to qualify for social housing as the current limits exclude a large cohort of individuals and families from both social housing and mortgage approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12822/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (19 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 984. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to amend the local authority differential rent scheme to exclude carer’s allowance and carer’s benefit from rent assessment under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12824/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 980. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to establish a State-sponsored housing infrastructure investment fund to provide finance for a major construction of social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12820/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 981. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to amend the local authority house purchase scheme to enable tenants to purchase “Section 5” houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12821/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 983. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to establish a scheme whereby local authorities acquire, by agreement or by compulsory purchase, and repair vacant houses for allocation to approved housing applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12823/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: Jigsaw is a youth mental health charity that provides free, non-judgmental and confidential therapy to young people between the ages of 12 and 15. It also gives families, educators and those who support young people's mental health ways to cope and the skills to be there for young people. Thankfully, after pressure from public representatives, this service was established successfully in...

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: The prevention of crime and antisocial behaviour requires a wide range of social, economic and community actions including education, employment, training, income, social inclusion, community facilities and community policing. I will say a few words on community policing. Over the past few years, community policing has effectively been dismantled, particularly since the introduction of the...

Oideachas trí Mheán na Gaeilge: Tairiscint [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] (4 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: Molaim an rún seo, agus gabhaim buíochas le Sinn Féin as ucht an rún a chur faoi bhráid na Dála. Ba mhaith liom labhairt ar bhuncheist thábhachtach maidir leis an nGaeilge. Tháinig laghdú suntasach ar líon na ndaltaí atá ag freastal ar scoileanna lán-Ghaeilge le linn an Rialtais dheireanaigh. Níl iarbhunscoil...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (4 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 333. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA-sponsored client visits to the IDA land at Ballingarrane, Clonmel for the calendar years 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. [9049/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (4 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is proposed to open applications for the urban renewal development fund, as Tipperary County Council now have a fully prepared urban renewal project, for the regeneration of Clonmel town centre, ready for submission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9045/25]