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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Séamus Healy: It is still clogging up beds in hospitals.

Hospital Services: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2015)

Séamus Healy: Accident and emergency and hospital overcrowding is unacceptable in any circumstances and the health services, as the Minister will be well aware, have been devastated by cuts. Hospital and health staff are overwhelmed by the situation. They are under severe pressure and they are working above and beyond the call of duty every hour of every day. Despite their best efforts, they are...

Order of Business (14 Jan 2015)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach will not allow a debate in the Chamber on this very important issue.

Order of Business (14 Jan 2015)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach has surrendered to the EU again. It is quite simple. He has surrendered again.

Order of Business (14 Jan 2015)

Séamus Healy: In 2012, the Taoiseach advised the Dáil that he had made an agreement with the European Union for the retrospective recapitalisation of the Irish banks. On Monday last, the Minister for Finance raised the white flag of surrender in regard to that. Today, we find that the EU has made special financial arrangements for the big boys of Europe, in particular Italy and France. Will the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: Is someone who tests negative here retested after two, three or four weeks? Is there a case to be made for preventative antibiotics prior to a positive test result which may occur a fortnight or a month later?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the guests and thank them for their presentations. I also welcome the advocates and some patients who are in the public gallery. It appears Lyme disease affects a small number of people, although the numbers have been growing during the past number of years. For the people affected, it is a very significant illness and it can be very severe and chronic. I know from contact I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery: Discussion (18 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: What is the position on the Advertising Standards Authority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery: Discussion (18 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: I welcome our guests and thank them for their excellent presentations. I concur with Senator John Crown on the dermatology service in the south east. Coming from south Tipperary, I am very aware of the inadequate service in the south east, particularly south Tipperary, which has always been less than adequately served by way of an outreach service from what is now Waterford University...

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: I am disappointed that Deputy O'Donovan has left. He obviously arrived to put on his comedy act and to follow it with a disappearing act. The public is absolutely opposed to the privatisation of water and it wants absolute certainty about that. A plebiscite does not give that certainty. The only thing that will provide such certainty is a constitutional amendment, and that is what the...

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: The public has good reason not to trust the Government. The Minister who is introducing this legislation told the people of north Tipperary during the last general election campaign that they should vote for him so he could stop Fine Gael introducing water charges. In the Tesco advertisement issued by the Labour Party one of the six things it named that would hurt the Irish people was a...

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Minister is about to give away the exemption we have under that framework. I ask the Minister to desist from that and stop these water charges, once and for all.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: It is correct.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: Tax the super rich.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: That is right; we went to the well with a bucket.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: We were the same.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Deputy has-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: Will the Minister of State answer my question?

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: What about the elderly gentleman in my constituency who was without water for a full week?

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: I support the amendment from Deputy Catherine Murphy. We have been unable to get the figures from the Minister but we know now, almost by default, that the question of the finances and the funding of this arrangement are, at best, up in the air. Furthermore, we know that, at best, only a small income, perhaps in the region of €30 million to €40 million, will be derived from...