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Ireland and the Eurozone: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: The richest 300 only pay 5% tax. We need to start taxing the superwealthy.

Ireland and the Eurozone: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: The European Union's austerity doctrine imposed the burden of adjustment to the post-2008 economic collapse on the labour market. It is an indefensible misuse of economics that the eurozone authorities should seek stability on the back of tens of millions of unemployed. This month's eurozone unemployment figures reached yet another record. It is equally indefensible that within an economic...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (22 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I stress the fact that there are a number of flagship industries in the area, including medical device and pharmaceutical companies. These companies are prepared to liaise and partner with incoming foreign direct investment companies at the state-of-the-art site at Cashel. I appeal to the Minister and Minister of State to make every effort to ensure that a tenant is obtained for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (22 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome that and hope it comes to fruition very quickly.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (22 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits his Department and the employment agencies have arranged to a vacant plant (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the possibilities of finding an industry for the plant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24519/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (22 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the reply from the Minister of State. I note there has been a number of visits to this site and Johnson and Johnson is helping in the search for a new tenant for this facility. Foreign direct investment has resulted in the creation of new jobs and the availability of a modern state of the art plant at Cashel, the former Cordis plant, must make the search easier. Jobs are very...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Schemes Status (22 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: 252. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the mobility allowance and motorised transport schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24566/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy White, to the final session and thank Deputy Buttimer for chairing the committee. I thank all the various witnesses who presented over the past three days. I thank each and every member of the committee and other Members of the Oireachtas who contributed. I also thank the committee secretariat for its excellent work. The process has been ongoing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I thank the witnesses for their attendance and presentations. I will be brief, as usual. In respect of Dr. Craven's presentation I take it that he has difficulties with the Bill but that he is more of the opinion that the template of the Mental Health Act would be more appropriate, operable and practical in this area. Is that is the case? What is Dr. Craven's view? Dr. Fletcher referred...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: That could be amended.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the experts and thank them for their presentations. We have received quite a number of presentations and heard a lot of information. In the process we may have forgotten the basics. Am I right that the proposed legislation will be operated on the basis of Article 40.3.3° of the Constitution, which contains a constitutional commitment to the life of the woman and the unborn,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome our guests and thank them for their presentations. Dr. Moloney made a very important statement when he said it is his belief that this legislation could be practically implemented. I took it from some of his contribution that he was effectively speaking about the mirror imaging of the legislation here reflecting the procedure of panels under the Mental Treatment Act. Am I correct...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I asked about early deliveries on the basis of suicidal ideation in Limerick.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I apologise for the duplication of questions, but in this session we are dealing specifically with how the proposed Bill will affect the smaller and more rural units such as the one in south Tipperary from where I come. I seek clarification on the appropriate locations. I take it from what the witnesses have said the locations need to be broadened because there may not be psychiatric care...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: It is important that we remember that the backdrop to the Bill we are discussing is the constitutional protection of the life of the mother and the unborn in Article 40.3.3°. It is also the background to the X case, which refers to the real and substantial risk to the life, as distinct from the health, of the mother, which can only be averted by a termination. We are talking about a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: Several contributors referred to the provisions regarding appropriate locations, which refer to public obstetric units where there is a mental health facility. The witnesses have indicated a preference that this be broadened to include public hospitals in general. Will they elaborate on this? Will they comment on the availability of medical personnel to operate the system as outlined under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: The point I was raising concerned fatal foetal abnormality.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: In respect of the reply to the question regarding appropriate facilities, the heads refer to health care facilities providing obstetric and mental health services. There are obstetric units in the country where mental health services are not provided.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: Could Dr. Holohan clarify the question of non-viable fatal foetal abnormality? My understanding is that the Government in A, B and Cv. Ireland referred to this matter and indicated that there was a belief that it was constitutional. Certainly, evidence presented to this committee in January was very strong in the belief that Article 40.3.3° covered this area. Could Dr. Holohan tell us...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: International vulture capitalists are roaming the country buying up assets for a song. The Government led the way in these fire sales when it allowed 37% of Bank of Ireland to be bought by the American financier Wilbur Ross for just over €1 billion, leaving the State with a 15% stake in the bank in which it invested €5 billion. This Bill is related to a deliberately...