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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Nov 2016)

Séamus Healy: 387. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the preparation of a development control plan for South Tipperary General Hospital site at Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33722/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance (8 Nov 2016)

Séamus Healy: 488. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make funding available for urgent essential repairs and upgrading to Ardfinnan Bridge, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33795/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (2 Nov 2016)

Séamus Healy: 224. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the outcome of the recent review of the wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32833/16]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016 and commend Deputy Ruth Coppinger for bringing it forward. I confirm my support for it. I am old enough to have opposed and voted against the eight amendment in 1983, believing then as I do now, that equating the life of the mother with that of a foetus was fundamentally unsound and would be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Oct 2016)

Séamus Healy: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for additional school accommodation by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32108/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Lansdowne Road Agreement (25 Oct 2016)

Séamus Healy: 376. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in view of the fact that the FEMPI Act 2013 pay reductions for serving higher earners, over €65,000 per annum will be restored in two stages, the first half of the reduction will be restored on 1 April 2017, the second half of the reduction will be restored on 1 January 2018, the equivalent pensioner will receive an...

Services and Supports for People with Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2016)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the debate. I appeal to the Minister of State and the HSE to continue the funding of the five steps to living well with dementia project in south Tipperary. In 2012, south Tipperary received funding to develop a new and innovative dementia project for a three-year period. The project was jointly funded by Atlantic Philanthropies and the HSE through the Genio trust. It is time to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (19 Oct 2016)

Séamus Healy: 76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will amend the new tenant purchase scheme to allow residents of houses that were build under Part V agreements to be included in the scheme and allow them to purchase their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31002/16]

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Séamus Healy: The proposals in respect of social housing in this budget are grossly inadequate. Housing is a fundamental right of human beings but shamefully the Taoiseach has written to the EU seeking permission to borrow the money required to build social housing. Ireland does not have the sovereignty to house its own people. There are 140,000 people on local authority waiting lists and in the...

Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)

Séamus Healy: Fianna Fáil is responsible for it as well. Its hand prints are all over it.

Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)

Séamus Healy: In the very short time available to me, I will concentrate on primary education. Young people get one chance at primary education. They can re-sit their leaving certificate and do secondary education as part of a second chance programme or as a mature student. Third level is similar but they get only one chance at primary education. That is why it is vitally important that students get a...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Séamus Healy: In his Budget Statement, the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, told us the budget will create a fairer society. This is dishonest claptrap. The budget maintains and widens the rich-poor gap in our society. Under the tax and the universal social charge changes alone, the wealthiest 5% of people in our society, those on average incomes of €186,000 a year, will get a €15 per week...

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion and to indicate my support for it. A Vision for Change, launched in 2006, was a template for a community-based, progressive and modern mental health care system. Today, ten years later, there is a crisis in our mental health services arising from, and compounded by, the failure to implement the policy set out in A Vision for Change. The...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Séamus Healy: I will be supporting this motion, indeed, I have signed it. People power strikes fear into the heart of the establishment. That is what has been happening over recent years through the Right2Water and Right2Change protests. Hundreds of thousands of people have protested locally and nationally over two years. They have brought about circumstances in which three out of every four people are...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2016)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Road Traffic Bill 2016 and I welcome most of its provisions. The purpose of the legislation is to improve safety on our roads and reduce fatalities and injuries to road users by introducing several measures. They are the detection of drug driving via mandatory testing; the creation of new offences for driving or being in charge of a vehicle under...

Pharmacy Fees: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2016)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the Private Members' motion and the debate on the issue of overcharging of pharmacy fees by a large pharmacy chain. It is a very disturbing development and it would appear very senior people in this large pharmacy chain set out to overcharge the taxpayer. I want to ask the Minister a number of questions. First, has this matter been referred to An Garda Síochána for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (27 Sep 2016)

Séamus Healy: 319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when funding for a demountable will be made available in respect of persons (details supplied). [26482/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Sep 2016)

Séamus Healy: 1403. 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. [25963/16]

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Séamus Healy: I will vote against the Government's proposals on this issue. Mr. Martin Shanahan, the chief executive officer of IDA Ireland, stated in a recent radio interview that the ruling "does not call into question Ireland's tax regime and does not call into question Ireland's 12.5% tax rate". The European Commissioner, Mr. Phil Hogan, subsequently agreed with Mr. Shanahan. Both Mr. Hogan and Mr....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Relief Availability (21 Jul 2016)

Séamus Healy: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax breaks and or incentives, if any, available to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23742/16]