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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: As the Chairman stated, I am due to take Leaders' Questions after 12 noon. I welcome the organisations to this meeting, particularly the Tipperary Regional Youth Service and the girls from Cashel community college. I thank them for their work and their presentation. I was especially happy to see young people making that presentation and that they have been involved with the Irish Cancer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: Plain packaging must show the Quitline telephone number. We must also ensure that the packaging's size be regulated under the legislation. These two elements have been raised. I thank the Chairman for the opportunity to contribute. I also thank the girls from Cashel and the other speakers. I will try to return if possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the delegates. We have heard this morning a series of absolutely shocking facts. One in every two smokers will die of a smoking-related illness. The ASH presentation stated 100 people will die this week of smoking-related illnesses. The tobacco industry is an industry of death. While we obviously welcome the reduction in recent years in the prevalence of smoking, which is now...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: Serious and significant damage has been done to the health service over the last five to six years, with huge cuts of €3 billion and 11,000 staff. Again this year we have €619 million of cuts and 2,600 staff lost. I pay tribute to health staff all over the country who work above and beyond the call of duty, every hour of every day. I especially wish to pay tribute to the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: When will the regional service plans be available?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: I have them here.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: This individual has had a card for 11 years.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: He has no income of his own, and there has been no change in family circumstances.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: Absolutely. This individual is in a wheelchair and has no access to repairs.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: I will be brief. I agree with what the previous speakers said. This is the third year in a row where we have an unsustainable budget and cuts of €619 million plus 2,500 staff, which will create further difficulties, particularly for patients but also for staff and for the provision of necessary services for patients. I want to raise again the question of whether there is any...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: We do not get the same time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (23 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the delegates from the Garda Síochána, the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, the HSE and their staff to the meeting. One in ever two smokers dies of a smoking-related illness. It is shocking. We are dealing with an industry of death and for it to continue, it is necessary for it every hour of every day to get additional young people addicted to tobacco. I support...

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: I want to confirm my support for this Private Members' Bill. The activities uncovered recently in charity boards, with salary top-ups and pension payments, is completely unacceptable and an affront to the ordinary people of this country, who are paying through the nose for a recession which had they no hand, act or part in creating. The debacle we have seen has the potential to destroy the...

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: In contrast, ordinary people are being absolutely fleeced and made pay for the recession that they have had no hand, act or part in creating. That is fundamentally wrong and will have to stop.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: As the Taoiseach said, there is a very long way to go. I hope it does not depend on when the local and European elections take place. That would appear to me to be the position having listened to Government backbenchers, Members of the European Parliament and even Ministers of State. The Taoiseach mentioned the word "consultation". Is he satisfied that the EirGrid consultation was...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: The other international reports raise very serious health issues associated with the pylons, including childhood leukaemia. In view of those reports and the fact that EirGrid cannot guarantee that there are no health implications, I urge that we use the precautionary principle that is accepted at EU and WHO levels when there are health dangers. On this basis, the proposals should be...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: I asked whether he was satisfied with the consultation.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: Is the Taoiseach satisfied with EirGrid's consultation?

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: At levels generally encountered by members of the public.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: Communities across the country are angry and frustrated yet determined to oppose EirGrid's intolerable proposal to erect 250 monster pylons, carrying 400 kVA overhead power lines across Munster and Leinster. Thousands of people turned out for meetings in opposition to these plans and there has been significant development over the Christmas and new year. The first was the revelation that...