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Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: The policy being pursued in respect of the abolition of the CLÁR and RAPID programmes has directly contributed to the loss of 11,150 front-line jobs in the community and voluntary sector. The staff who occupied those jobs served deprived communities throughout the country. In 2012 Brian Harvey presented his report, "Downsizing the Community Sector" to the Irish Congress of Trade...

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: -----the Government has given failed banks permission to pay their executives €500,000 per year.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: There appears to be a golden circle involving bank executives, Government advisers and chief executives of voluntary hospitals and, effectively, these individuals appear to be getting away scot free. As Christmas draws near and as increasing numbers of children go to school hungry, I ask the Taoiseach to cast off his role as Scrooge and reinstate funding for the RAPID and CLÁR...

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: What about the over 11,000 jobs lost in the community and voluntary sector?

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: The question I asked relates to disadvantaged communities.

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: Since the Government came to power it has confirmed the termination of the Ceantair Laga Árd-Riachtanais, CLÁR, programme for high priority, weak rural areas. It has also continued to wind down the RAPID programme, leading to the effective abolition of the programme. The RAPID programme revitalises areas through planning, investment and development. The programmes were developed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EirGrid Grid25 Project: Discussion (20 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: I apologise but I have to leave as I am due to contribute on Leaders' Questions in the Dáil shortly. I raised this issue during Leaders' Questions last week, including the question of the suspending the project, and I will be available to support the groups into the future.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (20 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 123. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons participating in the job activation measures (details supplied) on 30 June 2011. [49777/13]

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: We in Clonmel defeated Cromwell and sometimes it is easier to defeat an external enemy than an internal one like the Minister. We defeated Cromwell and it has taken a Minister like the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to abolish a borough council with huge history and traditions. The Minister has taken €500 million out of local authority funding over the...

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Local Government Bill 2013. This Bill purports to be about putting people first and informing local government and local democracy. It is nothing like that, it is about the destruction of local democracy. Local democracy is about the provision of local services to facilitate access for people to those services and indeed to public representatives....

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Family Clinics (14 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 153. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will reverse his decision to close the medical clinic at the Curragh, County Kildare in view of the fact that members of the Defence Forces habitually risk life and injury on behalf of the State at home and abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48697/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Defence Forces Family Clinics (14 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 197. To ask the Minister for Health if he will call on the Department of Defence to reverse the decision to close the medical clinic at the Curragh, County Kildare in view of the fact that members of the Defence Forces habitually risk life and injury on behalf of the state at home and abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48698/13]

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: Dishonesty is destroying the reputation of politicians and of the political system. There is deep and understandable cynicism in the population generally about politicians and politics. It is being driven by dishonest legislation like the Bill we are discussing which deals with income limits for medical cards for the over 70s. It is important to note what the current Government said in...

Other Questions: Medical Card Data (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 12. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he will take to end the practice by general practitioners of charging medical card holders for blood tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48061/13]

Other Questions: Medical Card Data (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister of State, Deputy White, said earlier that there is a lot happening in primary care, and indeed there is. Most GPs and their staff are working above and beyond the call of duty. However, that does not entitle GPs to put further pressure on ill, low-income patients with medical cards. Unfortunately, that is happening nowadays because GPs are charging for services that in the...

Other Questions: Medical Card Data (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: I appreciate the Minister of State's reply but because of the relationship between patients and GPs, it is difficult for individual patients to make complaints. The HSE and the Department of Health should initiate a procedure whereby GPs would not charge medical card holders for blood tests. A number of other issues have also arisen in GPs' surgeries. The Irish Medical Organisation has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 16. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the €3 million needed to develop donor coordinators in hospitals here will be included in the 2014 health budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48062/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 18. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the decision to exclude the first €50 per week of travel to work costs, the cost of home improvement loans and child care costs from allowance expenses for assessment for medical cards-general practitioner visit cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48063/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 25. To ask the Minister for Health the timescale for the appointment of chairpersons and board members to the new hospital groupings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48060/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 35. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the recent statements by four large Dublin hospitals regarding the adequacy of budgets and the safety of service and statements by senior health officials that the 2014 health budget represents a €1 billion cut, his views on the adequacy and safety of the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48059/13]