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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Séamus Healy: These unions have agreed and are implementing that agreement, but the State is now forcing them into another agreement. This smacks of the corporate state of another era.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Séamus Healy: This is the Minister forcing and punishing unions by way of stopping increments.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Séamus Healy: Indeed the Minister is.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Séamus Healy: That is nonsense.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Séamus Healy: Deputy Donnelly had an amendment down on this section at my request but, of course, it has been ruled out of order. Basically, I want to make the point that pensions are effectively private property. That has been decided by the courts. It is effectively withheld pay over the lifetime of the pensioner. I believe the question of not restoring the pension in full from 1 January is...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Séamus Healy: This is not about contributions; it is about entitlement.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Séamus Healy: Yes, absolutely, but pensioners are entitled to their pensions by law.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Séamus Healy: This is the fifth budget in a row for the rich and powerful in our society. The USC package gives the top 5% of earners, 110,000 individuals earning over €180,000, an additional €922, costing the Exchequer almost €100 million or nearly twice what they were given last year. In contrast a low-paid worker on €18,000 gets a paltry €124 per year and someone on...

Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Acting Chairman and welcome the opportunity to contribute to the Second Stage debate on the Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015. The Irish tax system is grossly unfair. The poorest people are the most highly taxed in Ireland. It is not surprising, therefore, to find we are discussing a Bill today which confines legal recourse in tax disputes to the High Court and excludes the right...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

Séamus Healy: I welcome our visitors and thank Mr. Woods for his presentation. I will deal almost exclusively with the report on South Tipperary General Hospital. Obviously, I have a particular interest in it as I am elected in Tipperary South, but I am also a former employee of the South Eastern Health Board and I was manager of the hospital for quite a number of years. First, I welcome the report. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Séamus Healy: I thank Dr. Coulter-Smith and Dr. Sheehan for what were really very detailed presentations. As I said as late as last evening in the Chamber, I acknowledge the background not only to the maternity service but to the health service is that we have lost €4 billion in funding, 11,000 staff and 2,000 beds in the past number of years and, on top of that, there has been the moratorium. Of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Séamus Healy: I am not sure either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Séamus Healy: What is Dr. Coulter-Smith proposing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Séamus Healy: Is Dr. Coulter-Smith saying that 4,000 to 5,000 deliveries could be handled by units liaising with or forming parts of other units?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Séamus Healy: Dr. Coulter-Smith accepts that some of the services that his document correctly suggests are necessary can be provided from a region or centre.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Babies Born to Mothers with Substance Abuse Issues: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Séamus Healy: I thank Dr. Adrienne Foran for her presentation on this important service, which is delivered with compassion and passion. Are there any services similar to this available outside Dublin?

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Sep 2015)

Séamus Healy: They health service has been devastated over the past number of years. We have seen €4 billion taken out of the budgets and 11,000 staff gone. In this current period, started by Fianna Fáil and the Greens and continued on by the Fine Gael-Labour Government, we lost in the order of 1,600 to 2,000 beds, and we had previously lost approximately 3,000 beds. Those cuts have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Séamus Healy: I join with the Chairman and the other members of the committee in expressing our disappointment, frustration and a certain amount of anger at the non-attendance here this afternoon of management from St. Vincent's hospital, which is absolutely unacceptable. I would like that message to go out in the strongest possible terms from the meeting. I thank Mr. Cullen for attending. Will he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Séamus Healy: Is there an internal audit function?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

Séamus Healy: I thank the HSE for coming before the committee. The allegations that have already been made are very worrying. The real concern of the committee, and what is at the back of everybody's mind, is whether this is the tip of the iceberg. What we hope to have from the HSE this afternoon is confirmation of the safeguards that are in place to ensure that allegations such as those we have heard...