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Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: I support this motion of no confidence in the Minister. He is presiding over a housing and homelessness emergency. This is no accident and no error, but the result of deliberate policy pursued by this Government and previous Governments. This policy sees housing as a commodity and the market as a solution to the housing and homelessness crisis. That policy has failed, was always going to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (28 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: 139. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be approved for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49466/19]

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Sláinte), 2019: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Health) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: I am sharing my time with Deputies Eamon Ryan and Shortall. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I confirm my support for it. It is particularly important when we think of its background, including the chaos in our health services, the overcrowding, long waiting lists, the lack of mental health services, dysfunctional disability services and, of course, the two-tier health...

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: The health service is in chaos and crisis, whether it be the hundreds of thousands of people who are waiting to be seen as outpatients, those on inpatient waiting lists, the 100,000 people who have been on trolleys to date this year or the 300 elderly patients who will die unnecessarily this year on trolleys in our overcrowded hospitals. I raised this matter with the Taoiseach recently on...

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Bill. I also welcome the measures contained in the Bill such as the Christmas bonus, the increase in the living alone allowance, the 35,000 hot meals to be provided for school children and other similar provdisions. What is contained in a Bill, however, is not always what is most important and this Bill is a classic example. What is not included in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (12 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the retention of a second teacher at a school (details supplied) will be approved in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46539/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (12 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: 334. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46185/19]

Illegal Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak to this very important motion and commend Deputy Curran for bringing it forward. I support both it and the Sinn Féin amendment. There is no doubt that drugs are to be found in every town and village across the country. I hesitate to say this in case there might be an inference that it is normal or acceptable. Of course, it is not and it is being...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: Obviously, the Minister does not recognise that there is a serious homelessness crisis. The figure of 10,398 does not include a significant number of other people who are also homeless. Thousands of people couch surf. They are living at home or on relatives' couches and floors. There are additional thousands in that category alone. There is also a situation where thousands of individuals...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: Do I not have another minute? I want to ask the Minister, and I am sure he would want to respond-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: -----about the procedure for homeless persons being approved as homeless by local authorities.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: There is now a situation whereby persons who are homeless in Tipperary County Council-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: -----must advise the council that they are homeless, make a full housing application and wait 12 weeks to be designated as homeless.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: Will the Minister comment on that situation because it is unbelievable?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: If the Minister thinks it is wrong, he should instruct the local authority to do otherwise.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: 25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will immediately fund local authorities to enable them to commence an emergency local authority house building programme of a minimum of 10,000 new builds per year on public land. [45493/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: Successive Governments have not only failed to solve the housing crisis but have created a housing emergency. I ask the Minister to fund local authorities to build a minimum of 10,000 houses per year on public land as the key driver to tackle the current housing emergency.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: The picture the Minister has painted is not the picture I or the vast majority of Deputies find in their clinics. We do not expect the Minister to solve the problem overnight but his party has been in government for eight years. What has happened since 2002 is that the public housing programme has been handed over to the private market, namely, builders, developers and landlords, and we now...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: They say 350 patients are dying on trolleys.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: I am shocked at the lack of urgency, almost indifference, the Taoiseach displays, almost as if this situation is normal. The trolley figures are absolutely obscene. We have people suffering and dying on trolleys in our hospitals. The Taoiseach is the leader of this country and has a responsibility for this obscenity, the suffering and the deaths of these people on trolleys in our hospitals...