Results 1,241-1,260 of 2,967 for speaker:Séamus Healy
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: These are huge impositions on top of families and individuals who are already hugely hard pressed by the cutbacks and the reductions to services introduced by the Government. It is suggested in the paper that medical card holders will be subsidised. This brings us to the whole question of medical cards. We have to wonder which individuals will have medical cards at the end of the current...
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: The other point that appears to be clear from the document is that there will be no extra funding provided for the health service. This brings me to another situation which arises every day throughout the hospital services, namely, the very difficult and chaotic situation in regard to patients on trolleys in hospital emergency departments. I refer specifically to the atrocious and...
- Ambulance Service: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: I rise to support the motion on the ambulance service requesting adequate funding for the service. Anybody who has an eye to see or an ear to hear knows that the ambulance service is under-funded, under-resourced, understaffed and under-equipped and that it compares unfavourably with our neighbours in Northern Ireland and particularly Scotland. We have about 1,600 staff while Scotland,...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: The Government has the money.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: The numbers on trolleys have quadrupled since they came into government.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: €11 million in cuts is the reason.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: The management in the south east have already asked for this.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: That is not good enough.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: Approximately three weeks ago, on 25 March, I raised with the Taoiseach the absolutely unacceptable number of patients on trolleys and chairs in the accident and emergency department in South Tipperary General Hospital. I described the conditions on that day as reminiscent of those in the Third World. I make no apology for this. Three weeks later, nothing has been done, despite requests...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: The HSE, the Department of Health and the Minister for Health have failed the patients in the hospital. We require emergency action today. I ask the Taoiseach to take charge of this matter personally and approve additional medical, nursing and support staff for the emergency department in the hospital. I want him to approve additional beds and open additional step-down beds for the hospital.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: There is a crisis in the hospital today. It is all very well producing reports but we need action today. There are 29 patients on trolleys in the hospital, which amounts to ten more than three weeks ago when I raised this issue originally. The HSE is well aware of the matter, as are the Department of Health and the Minister. The Taoiseach is aware of it because I raised it with him in the...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: Labour Party candidates asked the public to vote for them in order to stop child benefit cuts. The public put its trust in the Labour Party and what happened? The party has supported cuts in child benefit every year since it entered government.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: My question for the Minister-----
- Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: My question for the Minister, if he will listen, is whether he will reverse the social welfare cuts, including, in particular, the cuts in child benefit, heating, fuel and telephone allowances for elderly people and the carer's allowance. Is the Labour Party not ashamed, in this the centenary year of the 1913 Lockout and the party's foundation-----
- Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: ----- that it is introducing budgets that hit the low-paid rather than the super rich and the very wealthy?
- Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: It is true.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: The policy of the Government is to make the poor and the less well-off pay.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: It made promises with full knowledge of the situation in 2011. The assets of the super rich are back above peak levels in 2006, according to the Central Statistics Office.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: It means that there are very wealthy people in this country.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: The Government has chosen not to make them pay their fair share.