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Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Séamus Healy: This is a shameful budget. It is deeply regressive, unjust and socially unfair. It exacerbates the rich-poor divide in our society. Fine Gael and the Independent Alliance in government, supported by Fianna Fáil, are pursuing a deliberate policy of favouring a golden circle of the rich and powerful in our society. The budget and Government policy are prefaced by the dishonest claim...

Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Facility in Ireland: Statements (3 Oct 2019)

Séamus Healy: I confirm my support for the motion circulated by Deputy Bríd Smith on this matter and I commend her on her tenacity in ensuring that at least some debate took place in the Chamber on this issue. Nothing shocks me any more. The manner in which the Government has gone about this issue shows a very brass neck - effectively, pulling the wool over the eyes of the public and the Dáil....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2019)

Séamus Healy: I appeal to the Tánaiste to intervene immediately to have additional special needs assistants posts approved for Scoil Aonghusa special national school in Cashel, County Tipperary. Six children with special needs are at home today, unable to avail of education, because there are not enough special needs assistants at the school. The school has places, teachers and transport available...

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the decision to go to the WRC. This is not unusual, however, and is just the first step. The important point is that the Minister and his officials go to the WRC with a view to solving this problem in a way that will mean school secretaries will be employed directly by the Department of Education and Skills. That is the bottom line and what the process must achieve.

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate and express my support for school secretaries and the industrial action currently in progress. I do so as a lifelong trade unionist, a current associate member of Fórsa and a trade union activist in its predecessor, the IMPACT trade union, previously known as the Local Government and Public Services Union and, prior to that, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2019)

Séamus Healy: The public is rightly and intensely proud of our Defence Forces. Irish soldiers have given their lives in the service of peace around the world, protecting some of the world’s most vulnerable citizens. Thousands of their families at home have endured the absence of a father or a mother during the long period of overseas service. Our Air Corps fly air ambulances and save hundreds of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2019)

Séamus Healy: Unfortunately, the Minister’s reply is a further exercise in the Government burrowing its head in the sand instead of dealing with this issue. That is certainly not the way forward. Tinkering at the edges will not solve this problem. The problem is so serious that Uachtarán na hÉireann, Michael D. Higgins, has felt the need to intervene publicly on this issue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2019)

Séamus Healy: It is important to realise the serious nature of the crisis in our Defence Forces and the necessity for the Government to deal immediately with this issue. It is open to the Government to use an exceptional measure outside of any public service pay agreement to improve pay, conditions and allowances for serving members of the Defence Forces. On the basis of the Government’s lack of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (26 Sep 2019)

Séamus Healy: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39095/19]

Climate Change: Statements (19 Sep 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome this debate at the start of the Dáil term and hope that it indicates some real commitment and urgent action by the Government on this most important issue. It is opportune that the debate is taking place on the eve of what is likely to be the biggest global climate mobilisation ever led by school strikers tomorrow. Millions of people around the world will come together to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (17 Sep 2019)

Séamus Healy: 94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37003/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (6 Sep 2019)

Séamus Healy: 1009. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a family (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35699/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (6 Sep 2019)

Séamus Healy: 1959. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the local authority tenant purchase scheme; if tenants have an entitlement to purchase by way of a lump sum; if Part V houses will be included in the scheme; if persons have an entitlement to purchase with income other than from employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35626/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (10 Jul 2019)

Séamus Healy: 242. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the upgrading and development of a home (details supplied) with particular reference to ensuring a long-stay facility for Roscrea, County Tipperary and the surrounding area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30107/19]

Mental Health Services Reports: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2019)

Séamus Healy: I commend Deputy Browne on bringing forward this important motion. I confirm my support for it and for the amendments tabled by Sinn Féin. It is important to state we have come a long way. Both of my parents were psychiatric nurses who started in the service in the early 1930s at St. Luke's Hospital, Clonmel, which was then known as a lunatic asylum. At its height, that institution...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Forms (27 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will provide a facility for persons who are non-e enabled and require written confirmation of cessation of employment as in the case of the TC1 application form for tax clearance certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27225/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Funding (27 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: 116. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to allow the summer camp at a service (details supplied) to take place in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27222/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Services Provision (25 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the reply from the Minister of State, particularly the statement he made that the necessary resources required for the summer respite programme in St. Rita's will continue to be provided to the Brothers of Charity in 2019. That will be a relief to parents. It is a pity it had to come to this and the turmoil parents have been put through over the past week. It should never have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Respite Care Services Provision (25 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: It is disgraceful that parents had to take to the airwaves to demand that the decision to cut summer respite services for children with special needs run by the Brothers of Charity at St. Rita's in Clonmel be reversed. I commend those parents, who have been superb advocates for their children and for the disability family. The Minister of State will know that they are under pressure on a...

National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: I have been a lifelong trade unionist. The first day I went to work, I joined the union. I have been a member of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, now called SIPTU - a union of which my late father was a founder member in Clonmel in 1934. I was a member of the Federation of Rural Workers and the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union, now called Unite. I was a...