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Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Séamus Healy: The Government is paying on the double in that it is paying the local authority and the landlord.

European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Séamus Healy: Today at South Tipperary General Hospital, there are 44 patients on chairs, trolleys and corridor beds awaiting admission. I am told this is the highest number on trolleys in the hospital in the whole country. What has this to do with the debate we are having here today? It has, of course, everything to do with it. The hospital is starved of resources. Approximately 25% of its budget, or...

Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)

Séamus Healy: The point I was making was that, while I welcome that particular proposal for the committee, it is ironic that we should start the first meeting of the 32nd Dáil by excluding Independent Deputies. That is not acceptable and will have to be changed.

Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)

Séamus Healy: Earlier I said this Dáil must see fundamental departures from the policies in the previous two Dáileanna. The Tánaiste mentioned how easy and cheap it was to borrow. I wonder what that means to the 1,600 children in emergency hotel accommodation tonight. What does it mean to the 82 constituents of mine who were on hospital trolleys yesterday and the 511 patients on hospital...

Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)

Séamus Healy: The proposal in No. 5cis-----

Nomination of Taoiseach (10 Mar 2016)

Séamus Healy: First, I congratulate you, a Cheann Comhairle, on your appointment and wish you well in your role as Ceann Comhairle of the Thirty-Second Dáil. On the various nominations, this new Dáil must see a fundamental departure from the failed policies of the past two Dáileanna. The past two Governments had the choice to protect the most vulnerable in society but instead both of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a request for an extension by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2830/16]

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: I rise in support of this Private Members' motion of no confidence in the Tánaiste. We were promised a democratic revolution after the last general election. Of course, this is certainly not the case as we have seen time and again since then. In the past week, we have seen that cronyism is alive and well and at the heart of Government and that a "get out" clause is being used not just...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has read the most recent Credit Suisse global wealth report; if so, his views on the staggering inequalities it suggests in the distribution and concentration of wealth here; if, given this report it is now a matter of urgent priority for the Government to establish a database on wealth distribution and to place a wealth tax on assets of households in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: This question asks whether, in view of the staggering inequalities in wealth in Ireland, the Minister will establish a database on wealth and whether he will introduce a wealth tax for households with wealth in excess of €1 million.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: The Credit Suisse bank report shows the top 10% own 58.6% of wealth, while the top 5% and top 1% own 46.4% and 27% of the wealth, respectively. This concentration of wealth at the very top is extraordinary on any democratic basis. Moreover, the most affluent 20% in Ireland own 73% of the country's wealth, while the poorest 20% owned just 0.2%. The poorest 10% have negative wealth, while...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: In view of these extraordinary levels of wealth at the very top, I again ask the Minister whether he will impose a wealth tax on households with wealth in excess of €1 million. In addition, will he create a database of wealth?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tax Code (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: The most recent institutional sector accounts published by the Central Statistics Office show that net financial assets of households are €25 billion above peak boom levels. They have grown massively over the past five years and there is no levy, charge or tax on them. In addition, the Central Bank report for the third quarter of 2015 reported that Irish household net worth was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Repossession (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: The Minister is the majority shareholder in these banks and he has obviously given permission to the banks to repossess family homes. He could equally instruct these banks not to go down this road and repossess family homes. He could call an emergency meeting of these bank boards and instruct them not to repossess family homes. I ask him to do so immediately and if bank directors do not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Repossession (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: We are not asking anybody to do that at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Repossession (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will insist that Allied Irish Bank and its subsidiary the Educational Building Society and Permanent TSB, which are in majority State ownership, desist from seeking repossession of family homes through the Courts and withdraw all such existing applications before the Courts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1426/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Repossession (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: Allied Irish Banks, the Educational Building Society and Permanent TSB are in majority State ownership. They are adding to homelessness and the housing crisis by repossessing family homes. I am asking the Minister, as the majority shareholder, to instruct the banks to desist from this practice.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Repossession (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: There is a tsunami of homelessness in this country. Last November, the Dublin Homeless Executive provided figures according to which some 1,425 children in 677 families were in emergency accommodation. The Dublin Simon Community said that was unacceptable and shameful. Focus Ireland said that the Government had failed these families. The Master of the High Court, Mr. Edmund Honohan,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: 11. To ask the Minister for Finance given that the richest 10% and the poorest 10% pay approximately the same proportion of their income in all taxes, if he will urgently introduce tax reform measures which will ensure the richest 10% pay a significantly higher proportion and the poorest 10% pay a significantly lower proportion of their respective incomes in all taxes than is currently the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Lobbying Data (14 Jan 2016)

Séamus Healy: 12. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of representations made to him in 2015 by representatives and lobbyists from all sources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1317/16]