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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: Beaumont Hospital is very different from South Tipperary General Hospital

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: I will not delay the meeting unduly but I want to say that I will certainly support the Supplementary Estimate. The figure of €680 million is significant and there is an overrun of €510 million in the HSE but we in this committee predicted as much last year. To some extent it is a case of here we go again. Many of us feel we were almost ridiculed when we raised issues that...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: This section deals with a plebiscite on the ownership of Irish Water. The measure is in the Bill due to the serious and understandable concern among the public generally that Irish Water, if it ever gets up and running, and if water charges are introduced, will eventually be privatised and sold on for private profit to super rich Irish or international organisations and companies, people who...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: I compliment Sinn Féin on bringing forward this motion and welcome the Government's acceptance of it. Statehood is the right of the Palestinian people, as is increasingly accepted and supported internationally. Some 135 countries have now formally recognised the state of Palestine, including eight EU member states, namely, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Malta,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: 401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve the redevelopment of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary which is operating for the past 20 years in substandard conditions and is a major health and safety concern; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47074/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (9 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: 407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a new school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47181/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Best Practice Access Guidelines: Irish Wheelchair Association (4 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: I welcome Mr. Hoey and the witnesses from the Irish Wheelchair Association. They are here to present the access guidelines and I thank the Chairman, Vice Chairman and the committee members for facilitating this meeting. I attended the local launch of the guidelines in Thurles and met IWA members and staff, so I felt the committee would be supportive of this, as it has. There is no doubt...

Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: The health service has suffered serious damage over the last six years. Budget cuts have amounted to some €3.5 billion and almost 12,000 staff have been lost to the service. The situation would be much worse than is currently the case but for the health service's dedicated and committed staff. We should pay tribute to staff across all categories who go beyond the call of duty every...

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Government privatised bin collections.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: This is complete nonsense.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: No, we are against paying for the same thing twice.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: That is completely outrageous.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: It is not. It was a display of pure arrogance.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: It was a display of arrogance and hypocrisy.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: The arrogance of the Government is absolutely breathtaking. The contempt the Taoiseach and his Ministers have shown for the Dáil, Opposition Deputies and the hundreds of thousands of people we represent demonstrates that they have lost touch with the real world. The irony and hypocrisy of the Minister's announcement in introducing water charges will not be lost on the general public....

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: The untruth being peddled is that the public will not pay for water.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: Members of the public continue to pay for water through general taxation. The proposed water charges amount to double taxation and an attempt to make hard-pressed families pay a second time. This revenue raising exercise which has nothing to do with conservation will not work. Today's announcements amount to political trickery to get water charges over the line and establish the principle...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 3) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: The views of Professor Kathleen Lynch, head of the UCD school of social justice, are appropriate in this discussion. She has argued that water is a public good that cannot and should not be commodified, commercialised or privatised, and it is the duty of the State to protect people's right to safe, secure, accessible and affordable water. She has argued that what is a public good cannot and...

Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: First, the Government did a U-turn.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Investigations (18 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: 228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there was a Garda investigation into a matter (details supplied); if officials of his Department were interviewed in the course of any investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43985/14]