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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (3 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: 144. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons participating in the job activation measures (details supplied) on 30 June 2012; the number of persons participating in the same job activation measures on 30 June 2013. [41707/13]

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: What percentage?

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Deputy should stop this talk.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: I hope everybody in the House has compassion and common decency.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: I did not ask about the Magdalen laundries. I asked about housing adaptation grants.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: Every Deputy knows what I said is true. They deal with it every day of the week.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach is not answering the question.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: I said everybody in the House should have common decency. That is why I am asking the question.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: Will the Taoiseach restore the cuts made to the housing adaptation grant? He will not.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: Are ill and elderly people going to have to-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: Ill and elderly people cannot get a stairlift.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: It is shameful.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: This year the Government has cut the capital allocation for local authority and voluntary housing by over €106 million. This is in the context of huge reductions already, from €1.5 billion in 2008 to €585 million in 2013. Recent figures for waiting lists for local authority housing have reached the shocking number of approximately 100,000 or, to be precise, 98,318. The...

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: It is obvious to everybody that the Government is refusing to fund a significant local authority and voluntary house building programme. However, will it at least spare the disabled, the ill and the elderly from cuts and give them some quality of life in their remaining years? This year the Government has cut the funding for housing adaption grants for persons with disabilities and ill and...

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Séamus Healy: We now have a situation where we have ill and disabled persons who must crawl up the stairs and cannot have a shower or a bath, not because they have been refused a housing adaption grant, but because they cannot even be considered because the funding has been cut by the Government and the money has run out. Does the Government have any compassion for the people concerned? Will the...

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the provision to allow for payments of fines by instalment. I would prefer a longer period to do so - 24 months rather than 12 months. It should also allow for the payment of fines of up to €100 by instalment because for many people €100 is a significant amount of money. Credit union surveys have shown that people have very little, if any, excess income. I believe...

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2013)

Séamus Healy: I will finish with this. The banks should be forced to make reasonable agreements with the vast majority of people who having made their best effort find themselves unable to repay their mortgages.

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome this debate. Every year, a significant number of people end up in prison as a result of fines default. I understand that in 2012 more than 8,000 people, including almost 1,700 females, were committed to prison for fines default. This practice creates significant costs for the taxpayer and places considerable strain on the prison system. It also creates difficulties for families,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (26 Sep 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentations. I may get more than two minutes but I am aware that time is limited and I will not be able to cover all the areas they discussed. I particularly empathise with the presentation by the Irish Heart Foundation and the Irish Cancer Society because I have personal and family experience in both of these areas of health. I draw...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2013)

Séamus Healy: In case the Taoiseach did not understand the question, I will ask it again. Will the Government reverse the cuts to the energy units and the free-fuel scheme that have been made by the Government since 2011? What I have heard suggests the Government has lost touch with reality completely. I am sure the Taoiseach is aware of very important research directed by Professor Goodman of the...