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Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: At Clonmel court last Thursday, there were 30 such repossession cases and the same is happening in every courthouse right across this country. At the same time, thousands of Irish homes have been sold to foreign landlords. The Irish Nationwide Building Society non-performing loan book is being sold at knock down prices to American vulture capitalists Loan Star and Oakland Capital. What...

Restorative Justice (Reparation of Victims) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: Other speakers have referred to the fact that many countries have had a system of restorative justice in place for some time. The Bill raises various issues and principles of restorative justice – community restorative justice, the rights of victims and support services for them. I am sure Deputy John Halligan would agree that the Bill would benefit from the legislative process in...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: No; the Government is forcing them to operate like that.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: The number of trolleys has quadrupled.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: The policies of the Government and the cuts it has introduced in the health services have quadrupled the number of trolleys and chairs in the emergency department at South Tipperary General Hospital, from 750 in the year the Taoiseach came into office to 3,100 at the end of 2013.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: I invite the Taoiseach to visit South Tipperary General Hospital to see that absolutely excellent hospital and its excellent staff who are at their wits' end because of the cuts the Government has introduced. If only from the point of view of human decency, the Taoiseach should take action to solve this problem. There is no excuse not to deal with this problem, because the money is...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: It is the Taoiseach's duty to make sure people have a decent health service of quality. I again ask him to visit the aforementioned hospital and, by instructing the Health Service Executive, to ensure the putting in place of additional beds at Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel, and South Tipperary General Hospital, as well as additional consultant, nursing, medical and support staff in the...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: It absolutely is.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: They are being blackguarded by the Taoiseach and the Government.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: They are being blackguarded by the Taoiseach and the Government.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: No privacy and totally inadequate toilet facilities.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: That is not what I asked. The Taoiseach can read his notes forever but he should come to see the situation for himself.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: A Cheann Comhairle, will he answer the question?

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach is creating those conditions and the Government has no excuse because it has the money.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: Before I start my question I wish to tell the Taoiseach he has espoused and stated his Government is leading a democratic revolution, but I regard it as absolutely undemocratic he should have excluded representatives of the Technical Group-----

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: -----from the briefing he gave to other Members of the House earlier this afternoon. He chose to exclude one third of the Opposition and I certainly hope it will never happen again. My question is on the crisis in the health service. The Government has cut more than €3 billion and 12,500 staff from the health services in recent years. In 2014 a minimum of €619 million and...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: This is an ongoing situation and the conditions are Third World. The staff simply cannot deal with the number of patients and are struggling to provide a decent and safe service. Will the Taoiseach apologise to patients and their families for the conditions they are being forced to endure in the emergency department? Will he immediately instruct the HSE to implement the proposal from the...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: I am asking the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach is the leader of the Government and is responsible.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: I asked about a single issue which is underfunding and overcrowding in the emergency department.