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Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: There is a social and affordable housing crisis. More than 100,000 families are languishing on local authority housing waiting lists. These families cannot afford to buy or build their own homes and cannot access mortgages. In addition, because the Government has slashed the income limits to qualify for local authority housing, thousands of other families cannot get on those lists, cannot...

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: Based on the Taoiseach's reply, it is clear the Government's draft plan is regressive as regards social housing. Obviously it will cater only for those who can afford to buy these houses or get mortgages for them. It will not cater for local authority housing applicants or those who have failed to get on the housing lists because the Government has reduced the income limits significantly....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Response Times: Discussion (25 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: I apologise for my late arrival. I was taking Leaders' Questions in the Chamber. I welcome the representatives of the National Ambulance Service Representative Association. I also welcome the people in the Gallery, particularly the members of the McQuillan family from Drogheda. I sympathise with them on their sad loss. I would like to ask a few questions about the ambulance service...

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: They are not even being allowed to bid for their own mortgages.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: Media reports, rightly in my view, have described this sell-off as pure financial treason and an act of outrageous vandalism. Will the Government reverse the decision to sell these mortgages? Will the Government instruct the IBRC liquidator, as it is entitled to do in law, to stop these sales?

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: Quite clearly, these families are being thrown to the wolves by the Government, because that is what the reply means. It means the Government is reversing the gains made by Michael Davitt and James Connolly, who called for the reconquest of Ireland from foreign landlords and foreign capitalists. The Government is restoring the modern equivalent of the rack-renting foreign landlord and...

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: Will the Government allow the people to bid for their own mortgages?

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: Will the Government protect these mortgage holders?

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Lock-out, a struggle for workers' rights. The previous year marked the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the all-Ireland Labour Party by James Connolly and Jim Larkin in Clonmel. In a few short years we will remember the sacrifice of James Connolly and his comrades in 1916. It is more than 125 years since Michael Davitt initiated the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Measures (18 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reverse the budget 2014 measure regarding health insurance due to the fact that as a result health insurance premiums have been increased excessively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8154/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Community Rating (18 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: 756. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the risk equalisation scheme currently in operation having regard to the fact a significant proportion of the elderly are now insured by companies other than the VHI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8162/14]

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: During Leaders' Questions on Tuesday of last week, I asked a number of basic questions on water charges, which the Government will introduce on 1 October 2014. I asked whether families would be charged for water in cases where their water supply was not fit for purpose, a boil water notice was in place or hard water was being provided that was affecting electrical appliances. I also asked...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: What the Taoiseach promised last week is very clear and on the record of the House. I remind him of his statement that the Government would, in the next couple of weeks, have "the extent of the charges that will apply, the follow through on the use of an allowance of water and the charge thereafter". He is not fooling anybody. Is it not time to stop ducking and diving, come clean and...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach is providing cover for the Labour Party.

Companies (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the Bill and compliment Deputy Donnelly on its introduction. He has worked with legal practitioners on producing what is a well-thought-out and well-structured Bill. It protects jobs and small, viable industries. I am surprised and disappointed that the Government has not taken the opportunity to take it on board. There may well be flaws in it, as Deputy Donnelly has indicated...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach has answered none of the questions.

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Water Services Bill provides for the introduction of water charges and it was guillotined and bulldozed through the Dáil before Christmas. It was supported by the Labour Party and a Labour Party Tánaiste who built his career on opposition to water charges.

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: Be that as it may, in a few short months we will have water charges imposed by this Government. There are many unanswered questions and I hope the Taoiseach can provide answers to the House and the public this evening. Where water is not fit for purpose, such as in the case of the 18,000 families subject to boil water notices like residences in my constituency served by the Burncourt...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: As usual, the Taoiseach has answered none of my questions. I asked policy questions for the Government, not questions for Irish Water, the regulator or anyone else. We can only assume that, by refusing to answer questions, the Taoiseach is kicking the issue down the road beyond the local and European elections. Is the Taoiseach aware of the European right to water campaign, which believes...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (4 Feb 2014)

Séamus Healy: 606. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the establishment of the Child and Family Agency, the position regarding funding for the Rape Crisis Network Ireland to allow the network to continue its vital work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5693/14]