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Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (14 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of a statement by the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland (details supplied), he will now instruct the liquidator to halt the relevant sale; if he will agree to the request of the organisation representing Irish Bank Resolution Corporation mortgage holders for a meeting with him because it received no redress in respect of its concerns at a...

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: I do not accept the Minister's statement that the rules and policy on discretionary medical cards have not changed, because they have. Every Member of this House, on the Opposition side and the Government side, knows what is happening because they deal with it every day. People who had medical cards for years and whose circumstances have not changed have had their medical cards reviewed and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Banking Sector (13 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: 221. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the preference shares, which were held in Bank of Ireland by the State, sold in recent times to Baggot Securities; the nature of the company Baggot Securities; if the company is connected in any way with Bank Of Ireland; the monetary amount by which the equity in Bank of Ireland held by the State was reduced due to the rights issue by Bank Of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (13 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: 492. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the announcement by him that a single healthy adult living alone will get a free annual allowance of 30,000 litres of water, if he will state the free water allowance a household, in which three healthy employed adults dwell, will receive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21516/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (13 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: 491. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the rights of the householder in respect of supply of water from Uisce Éireann; if the householder has to consent to the termination of supply from the local authority; if the householder will have the right to agree or disagree a written contract with Irish Water; if so, the date on which the contractual document...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Provision (8 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: 124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will include the village of Skeheenarinky, County Tipperary in the national broadband roll-out announced recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20668/14]

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: We need answers.

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: Nonsense.

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: What does that mean? Will families with hard water be exempted?

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: He should answer the questions.

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: He knows the answers and he should give them now.

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Minister of State knows the answers to the questions and he should give them now.

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: Will families who are subject to a boil water notice have to pay this charge?

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: It is a reasonable question.

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: It is time for some honesty in this debate. Fine Gael and the Labour Party are kicking the question of water charges down the road until after the local and European elections, with the decision to be made in August. On the basis of the interviews and statements made by the Minister yesterday, a household of two adults and two children will pay €360 per year, while a household of...

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: Will people obliged to boil water, such as those in Burncourt and Skeheenarinky in my constituency, be exempt from the charges? Second, will the thousands of families on the north side of Clonmel who have hard water and whose electrical goods are being damaged on a daily basis by limescale be exempt from the charges? I ask the Minister to respond to those two specific questions.

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: Any honest, reasonable person would agree there is a crisis in the housing and homeless situation caused by the abandonment of the local authority house building programme by this and the previous Governments and the privatisation of the housing programme. As a result, 90,000 families are on local authority waiting lists throughout the country. In my constituency, Tipperary South, 1,225...

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Government has been in power for three years.

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Séamus Healy: What about the last three years?

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue. Having looked at this White Paper, I believe it is not a White Paper at all. It is, in fact, a Green Paper simply dressed up. While the policy statement that, in future, access to health services will be based on medical need alone is obviously welcome, there is little or no detail to allow for a forensic examination of the actual proposal....