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Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister has reduced the value of those pensions over three budgets.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: A guillotine is being applied.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: I refer to amendment No. 3, which was ruled out of order. Will the Minister explain-----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: It is very important-----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: -----and the Minister might want to explain why it has been ruled out of order and on what basis she has cut the household benefits package every year without bringing it before this House. She did it in 2011 when she was only a wet week in the job. In 2012, we lost six weeks from the fuel allowance. The electricity allowance was cut last year and the telephone allowance has been cut this...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: The measures contained in the Bill and the manner in which it is being rammed through the Oireachtas comprise a litany of broken promises. I cannot refer to the Bill without mentioning the guillotine. In the Government parties' election manifestoes, they committed to changing the guillotine. Under the programme for Government, they were to tackle the significant overuse of guillotines to...

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: Dishonesty is destroying the reputation of politicians and the political system in this country. I ask the Taoiseach who said the following:The Government has lost touch with the people and misled its own backbenchers. It thought it could carry out this attack on the elderly under the guise of patriotism, when it was more like an act of terrorism. The principle is simple; universal...

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: I ask the Taoiseach who said the following: "Elderly people do not want to be pressurised about means tests and application forms or have to worry about their property, their savings, what they have in the bank, whether a man from Government will call to their home or if they will lose their right to the medical card." It was the Taoiseach in 2008.

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: He was speaking on the same Private Members' motion on medical cards for the over 70s. What did the Taoiseach say on the same issue at an Age Action demonstration in 2008? He said:To take away your rights to have a medical card beyond the age of 70 years - I reject it! The cheek of them. Shame on them. Not to be outdone, the leader of the Labour Party -----

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: I will conclude shortly.

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: The leader of the Labour Party, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, asked how the then Fianna Fáil Government could disrespect our elderly, “who worked hard all their lives, often paid high taxes and only want the peace of mind of having the medical card if feeling unwell”.

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach and his colleagues in Government are now doing the exact opposite. There is deep cynicism among the population regarding politics and politicians.

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: My question is as follows. I have previously appealed to the Taoiseach to reverse the cuts on compassionate grounds.

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: If that appeal falls on deaf ears, I ask him to reverse the cuts at least to protect the integrity of the democratic system by making good the commitments he made in 2008. Will he now withdraw the elderly cuts from the Social Welfare Bill, the health Bill and the Finance Bill?

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: As usual, the Taoiseach has not answered the questions I asked him. I wonder whether the Ceann Comhairle has a role in ensuring that questions are answered. Unfortunately, any assurance the Taoiseach gives in this House that individual cases will be dealt with is of no value because of his record of speaking out of both sides of his mouth. That is a fact. I have quoted his comments and,...

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: If he is not going to reverse these cuts on health or compassionate grounds, I appeal to him to reverse them on the grounds of preserving the integrity of the democratic system. These cuts are corroding and undermining the democratic system, politics and politicians.

Older Citizens: Motion [Private Members]: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: I support the motion and, in particular, the amendment to it in the name of Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett. I compliment the Irish Senior Citizens' Parliament on the huge protest it held outside Leinster House today. Thousands of people from throughout the country gathered outside the House. I say "well done" to Mairead Hayes, a native of Clonmel, who is a very senior person in the Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (16 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: 10. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the position whereby insurance companies are refusing to give insurance cover to customers who live in or near flood plains, or in places the Office of Public Works have put flood relief schemes in place at significant cost, for example Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43803/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations Issues (16 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: 35. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he will implement the commitment in the programme for Government to legislate for collective bargaining through a trade union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43832/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (16 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: 92. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will reverse the reduction in section 10 homeless funding, notified to Waterford City Council in respect of the south east region for the provision of homeless services including the reduction at such a late stage in the financial year, to the budget of Suan Saoir, Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a...