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

Séamus Healy: This question relates to the level of funding available to child care facilities, particularly those which are community based. The level of such funding simply not adequate to allow such facilities to provide services.

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

Séamus Healy: Anybody currently involved with child care facilities, particularly those which are community based, knows that the funding available is simply not adequate in order to facilitate the provision of services. Many not-for-profit community child care facilities throughout the country are in serious financial difficulty and require additional funding. A nod towards the existence of this problem...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Child Care Services Provision (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: Question No. 3 relates to the one-parent family payment and the situation after 02 July next when the payment is lost once the youngest child reaches seven years of age. Prior to any such change being introduced, the Government promised that Scandinavian style child care would be available but that has not happened. Single parents will be required to be available for work after 02 July this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Child Care Services Provision (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: The Government is putting the cart before the horse. As I said already, the Government promised child care services comparable to those available in Scandinavia prior to this change taking effect. However, from 02 July next, single parents will be required to be available for job activation measures with no child care services being made available to them. This is definitely putting the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Child Care Services Provision (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 3. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, in view of the fact that, effective from 2 July 2015, single parents of children over seven years of age will be required to participate in activation measures outside the home in order to receive the full jobseeker's transition payment, he will provide free child care outside school hours and in school holiday periods for the children...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 14. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is now in a position to provide extra resources to child care providers, in respect of children with additional and special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14456/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the fact that funding of the school completion programme has been cut from €32.9 million in 2008 to €24.7 million currently, including a cut of 6.5% in the current year, if he will restore the level of funding to this vital programme for young persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14459/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 24. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a second full free preschool year for all children from the beginning of the new school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14458/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will restore the 30% cut in youth services provision since 2008, including the cuts made by his Government since coming to office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14460/15]

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Mar 2015)

Séamus Healy: Those whom the gods seek to destroy they first turn mad. That sentiment comes to mind with regard to the bizarre contribution of a former Minister this evening. His story seems to be that it is all RTE's fault. Whether that is an acknowledgment that former Workers' Party people are no longer running RTE or whether it is more sinister, a blatant attempt to intimidate RTE to stop reporting...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2015)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015. It is a very important Bill and is long overdue. Climate change is a real and distressing phenomenon which disproportionately affects the most vulnerable in our society. We only have to think of a country like the Philippines and, more recently, the Pacific island of Vanuatu, to see the utter...

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Séamus Healy: They are sending letters asking people to change.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Library Services Provision (24 Mar 2015)

Séamus Healy: 1005. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she will take to secure the future of Bolton Library in Cashel in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11520/15]

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Mar 2015)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak and support this important emergency legislation, which arises from the Court of Appeal judgment today which struck down section 2(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977. The ruling indicated that the section impermissibly delegates the power to legislate for controlled drugs to the Government. The court reaffirmed the decision in the Cityview Press v. An...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Mar 2015)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation and I confirm my support for the Bill. I will be voting "Yes" in the forthcoming referendum on 22 May. The referendum arises from the Constitutional Convention vote of 79 to 19 in favour of same-sex marriage. This is a civil rights and equality issue and is about removing the barriers which deny some couples the chance of marrying and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)

Séamus Healy: I have a quick question for the community pharmacists. In terms of substituting generic or low-cost drugs, how effective have the changes in prescribing been? Can other changes in that regard be made to reduce the cost further?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)

Séamus Healy: I thank the guests for the presentations. In regard to Professor Dunne's presentation, one of the key issues is general practitioners and doctors. They have to be leaders in the field of prescribing generic medication, informing patients and changing the whole culture. It would appear from the presentation that approximately 15% of GPs have less confidence in generic medication. This is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)

Séamus Healy: Where are Healthwave's 10,000 customers predominantly based?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)

Séamus Healy: Would prescribing not be done by hospital consultants to a large extent as well?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Momentum Programme (3 Mar 2015)

Séamus Healy: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce a travel allowance for participants of the Momentum scheme, in view of the fact that the lack of an allowance is creating hardship and preventing take-up of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4989/15]