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Mental Health: Statements (18 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: First, I congratulate the Minister of State on her appointment and I wish her well for this Dáil term. The programme for Government, under the mental health section, commits the Government to ensuring access to appropriate supports when and where people need them. The emphasis on when and where is very important because it is widely accepted that mental health services should be...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: On Tuesday morning last, I was contacted by a very distressed parent. This mother, Tina Barrett has given me permission to raise this issue with the Tánaiste. Tina is the mother of Michael Joseph Barrett, aged five. Michael Joseph has a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder level 2. He had been waiting on an assessment of need list for more than two years, which in itself is a breach...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (12 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: What is the basis for these additional ministerial posts? I listened to the Minister and Deputy Gallagher earlier and the Taoiseach and Tánaiste in recent days trying to justify the creation of these posts and quite frankly these justifications amount to a poor excuse, dressed up as policy to facilitate a shabby deal with the Regional Independent Group. The new posts are being created,...

Programme for Government: Statements (Resumed) (12 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: The programme for Government continues the failed policies of its predecessor. It lacks ambition and is deliberately vague with no costings or timelines. It means the continuation of the housing and homelessness crisis, the cost-of-living crisis, hospital overcrowding, long health waiting lists, a broken disability service and the continuation of the health recruitment embargo, the...

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: This devastating housing crisis was created by the privatisation of public housing by Fianna Fáil under the then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. Local authorities were prevented from building social and affordable housing for more than 20 years and this policy was continued by successive Governments. The housing crisis is undermining the social fabric of Irish society. Everybody says...

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: I will be sharing time with Deputy Catherine Connolly. I congratulate the Minister on his appointment and wish him well in his ministerial role. I am sure his dad with whom I served in this House for nearly 16 years is absolutely delighted to see his son elevated to ministerial ranks. As I say, I wish him well. As everybody has done, we need to acknowledge and thank all those who were...

Situation in Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion. I compliment and thank all those individuals and organisations throughout the country that are supporting the Palestinian cause, including Clonmel Friends of Palestine in my home town, who have been raising awareness, holding vigils and raising funds for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, as well as other groups in the constituency...

Government’s Response to Storm Éowyn: Statements (Resumed) (5 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: I acknowledge and thank all the staff involved in dealing with the storm and its aftermath, including in county councils, the ESB, the Civil Defence, Irish Water, the Garda, fire brigades, ambulance services, mountain rescue, local committees meeting in community halls and sports centres, local shops and the many individuals who helped out. The State was clearly unprepared for the storm and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: Disability legislation obliges the State to provide assessments of need for children with disabilities within six months of referral. This early assessment is vital as children use it as a gateway to access therapy services such as psychology, speech and language, etc. It is universally accepted that early diagnosis, treatment and support give the best outcomes for health, welfare and...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

Séamus Healy: This programme for Government continues the failed policies of the previous Government. It lacks ambition. It is deliberately vague and has no costings and no timelines. That means a continuation of the housing and homelessness crisis, the cost-of-living crisis, hospital overcrowding, huge health waiting lists, a broken disability service and the health recruitment embargo, known as "pay...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Séamus Healy: I wish to share time with Deputies Coppinger and Boyd Barrett.

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Séamus Healy: The housing and homelessness crisis is the most fundamental issue facing this country and the outgoing Government has failed to deal with it. In the Thirty-second Dáil, I introduced the Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill and it is my intention to reintroduce that Bill at the earliest opportunity. I salute the young disability rights campaigner, Cara Darmody, from...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Séamus Healy: South Tipperary urgently needs and demands the construction, as promised, of a 20-bed inpatient mental health unit at Tipperary University Hospital, the reopening of St. Brigid's Hospital in Carrick-on-Suir and the construction of the long-awaited bypasses for Tipperary town, Clonmel and Carrick-on-Suir.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Motorised Transport Grant (18 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: 290. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reintroduction of the motorised transport grant and mobility allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53555/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (17 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: 372. To ask the Minister for Health if an over 70s medical card will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52789/19]

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak in support of this Bill and to confirm that I will be voting in favour of it. The provisions of this Bill are quite similar to those in legislation - the Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill - I sponsored over 12 months ago. Both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil voted against that legislation. I welcome the road-to-Damascus conversion of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (10 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: 329. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding medical card applicants in receipt of disability allowance and who also have earnings from employment; if the requirement to provide a letter that states the employment is of a rehabilitative nature will be removed as is the case with the disability allowance section; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51193/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (10 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: 346. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding medical card applicants who are in receipt of disability allowance and also have earnings from employment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51256/19]

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: I have spoken about this issue in the Chamber on numerous occasions over recent years. I have presented a whole range of solutions to the housing and homelessness emergency that we have. I have supported a range of solutions put forward by other Opposition parties and individuals. I have produced my own Bill, the Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018, which was voted...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (5 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: "Live horse and you'll get grass" comes to mind. The Minister burying her head in the sand and saying that everything is fine and that everything will be fine is madness. It is not sustainable. It breaks the social contract between the State and its citizens and it is already creating serious difficulties. It will create much more serious difficulties in the future unless it is stopped....