Results 961-980 of 2,967 for speaker:Séamus Healy

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Disability Strategy Implementation Plan (6 May 2015)

Séamus Healy: 352. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that persons with disabilities lost basic and critical income and service supports during the course of the recession, if she will immediately implement the National Disability Strategy; if she will confirm that persons with disabilities will now be prioritised for funding and services, into the future; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sovereign Debt (6 May 2015)

Séamus Healy: 431. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he attended the United Nations debt resolution meeting in New York in the United States of America from 28 to 30 April 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17580/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (6 May 2015)

Séamus Healy: 499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will amend the Caranua survivor scheme to allow the children of survivors avail of education grants, which were available under the previous Nova scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17699/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (6 May 2015)

Séamus Healy: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 401 of 9 December 2014 if she will confirm that the tender process to appoint the design team to complete the design of the extension and refurbishment works required in a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary has been completed; if a successful tenderer has been appointed and an approximate date...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Library Services Provision (6 May 2015)

Séamus Healy: 614. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the future of Bolton Library, Cashel, County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17860/15]

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: They will be recovery for the wealthy.

Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: The Minister should instruct the banks.

Mortgage Arrears and Repossessions: Motion [Private Members] (28 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Private Members' business and welcome and support the many practical measures proposed to address the mortgage arrears crisis. A reading of any of the statistics relating to mortgage arrears in Ireland today is truly frightening. To give an overview of the situation, seven of every ten residential mortgage holders who are behind on their repayments...

Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: This Spring Statement is effectively an election manifesto of sorts with the bulk of the promises made to be implemented after the next general election. It is a series of political promises but we know well what happens to political promises. They are made to be broken, according to the former Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, who said that is what...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Facilities (28 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide capital funding to Mary Immaculate College, County Limerick, for the upgrading and development of library services at the college to provide equal learning opportunities to students at the college as are available to other third level students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16710/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Job Losses (28 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 458. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will urgently address the threats to employment, of layoffs, short-term and part-time working and job losses at the Bord na Móna factory at Littleton, Thurles, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16709/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the Minister's presentation. The proposed legislation is also welcome and the feedback on it has been positive, but perhaps it does not go far enough. I will air two issues. Obviously, they have been raised previously. We must grasp the nettle of sports sponsorship as it relates to this area and at least start the process of stopping that area of sports sponsorship. The other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Alcohol Consumption: BT Young Scientist Winners (23 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: I welcome Mr. Ian O'Sullivan and Ms Eimear Murphy to the joint committee and thank them for their presentation. I congratulate them on winning the BT Young Scientist competition. I include in my congratulations their parents, school and all those who supported them in this endeavour. The research they have produced is, to say the least, disappointing from the point of view of parents. In...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Funding (23 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 89. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the State and State agency grants paid to and-or payable in the future to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16158/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Retention (23 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 90. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will intervene with a company (details supplied) to save 160 jobs at risk at the Intellicom Contact Centre in Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16159/15]

Self-Employed and the SME Sector: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue and to confirm my support for the motion. I have no doubt that sustained and focused support for small and medium-sized industry is vital for job creation and to deal with the jobs crisis. However, this alone will not solve the unemployment crisis. Private enterprise alone will not solve the unemployment crisis. A total of 350,000 people...

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: I am thankful for the opportunity to speak on the Bill. While it is welcome, it is not what the Government committed itself to in the last general election, nor is it what it promised in the programme for Government. The programme for Government in 2011 stated: "Universal primary care will remove fees for GP care and will be introduced within the Government's term of office." That...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Early Child Care Education (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: Will the Minister indicate whether he and the Minister for Finance will set out the date by which the capitation rate will be increased in the context of the famous spring statement that is supposed to issue shortly? Anybody involved in this area, particularly at community or not-for-profit level, knows that there is now a serious crisis. Many of these centres are experiencing severe...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Early Child Care Education (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: If something is not done soon, they will not be in business much longer.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Early Child Care Education (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 5. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will increase the capitation fee payable under the early childhood care and education scheme to the level required to provide the service; if he will reinstate the 2011 level of capitation as an interim measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14647/15]