Results 1,441-1,460 of 2,967 for speaker:Séamus Healy
- Electricity Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: There are significant concerns, anger and frustration at the GridLink 25 proposal across the Munster counties of Cork, Tipperary and Waterford and the Leinster counties of Wexford, Kilkenny, Kildare and Carlow. Thousands have turned out at public meetings across the areas in question. I congratulate all of the various action groups involved and the legendary cyclist, Sean Kelly, for his...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: The Tánaiste has refused to answer the question. I have asked about a specific group, comprising families, that will not qualify for the insolvency arrangements about which the Tánaiste has spoken. He may not accept it but it is accepted widely, both within this House and outside it, that thousands of families do not qualify for the insolvency arrangements. New research by Grant...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: Will the Government exercise sovereignty by preventing reckless bailed-out banks, some owned by international vulture capitalists, from evicting 30,000 families in this country?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: There is a particular group.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: There is a group of 30,000.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: There are.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: The group does not qualify for the arrangements, as the Tánaiste knows.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: Up to 30,000 families face eviction due to the failure of the Government to protect them. They are distressed mortgage holders who have fully engaged with the banks. They are not strategic defaulters. Their only property is their family home. They do not have buy-to-let properties. In most cases they have modest mortgages. In all cases their incomes have collapsed due to the recession....
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: -----and have modest mortgages that are not buy-to-let properties, who are not strategic defaulters-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: Will the Tánaiste ensure that these families will be allowed to remain in their homes?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (28 Nov 2013)
Séamus Healy: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance if the preference shares held in Bank of Ireland by the State are callable at the discretion of BOI; if there are any restrictions on this discretion; if the State is compelled to sell the preference shares to Bank Of Ireland should the bank seek to buy them at any time; if the preference shares are convertible to ordinary shares; if so, has the State the...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Séamus Healy: What is the Taoiseach doing for this specific group of people?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Séamus Healy: If the Taoiseach would answer the question we would have some basis for discussion.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Séamus Healy: While the Taoiseach continues to put his head in the sand and washes his hands like a Pontius Pilate act, many of the people I am talking about will end up on the streets, as Focus Ireland said this morning. It is certain that families evicted from their homes will end up on the huge local authority housing waiting lists. Some 110,000 families are already on those lists and more will join...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Séamus Healy: I am not talking about those.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Séamus Healy: Will the Taoiseach intervene with the banks?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Séamus Healy: They cannot do so because the lenders are not engaging with them.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Séamus Healy: It will not happen in these cases unless the Taoiseach intervenes.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Séamus Healy: Absolutely. It is not a solution.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Séamus Healy: It is going out to those 40,000 people.