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

Séamus Healy: I wish to take the opportunity provided by means of my contribution to the debate on the Bill to commend the Ballyhea Says No group on its actions and to place its proposals on the record of Dáil Éireann. The group in question has been marching in Ballyhea for the past 115 weeks. The group in Charleville has been marching for 100 weeks and the growing Ireland Says No movement has...

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

Séamus Healy: I am doing so. This is Second Stage and all the matters to which I refer are germane to the debate.

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

Séamus Healy: The promissory notes were issued in 2010 to cover a flagrant abuse of the emergency liquidity assistance fund, when €31 billion was pumped into two already insolvent institutions, namely, the former Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society. This was an abuse which the ECB approved. The group is also seeking that the EU - through the European Stability Mechanism -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (14 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse his decision to refuse to sanction the post leaving certificate programme for 2013/2014 at a college (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22637/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (14 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that all children with Down's syndrome attending mainstream primary schools have access to specifically allocated resource teaching hours with effect from the start of the coming school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22638/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (14 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: 312. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits his Department and the employment agencies have arranged to the vacant state of the art former Cordis Plant at Cahel, County Tipperary; the possibilities of finding an industry for the plant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22639/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Rights Issues (14 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: 322. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the successful European Court case taken by former Waterford Crystal workers in respect of their pension rights, if she will ensure pension payments to these workers at the same level as their British counterparts 90%; if she will ensure that future pension payments are protected for workers in similar circumstances; and if she will...

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013. Listening to Deputy Gerald Nash, I had to smile at his proposal for a local authority house building programme when the fact is the programme has already been privatised. That privatisation is being implemented and overseen by a Labour Party housing Minister, Deputy Jan O’Sullivan. If Deputy Gerald Nash and the...

Fodder Crisis: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I propose to share time with Deputies Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, Mattie McGrath, and Healy-Rae. I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Private Members' motion on the farming and fodder crisis of the past 12 months. There is no doubt the farming community has been going through a difficult time, particularly smaller and medium-sized farmers, who have been under particular pressure due to the...

Europe Week: Statements (8 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: The European Union has placed a huge millstone around the necks of the Irish people. The millstone is called "debt, debt and more debt". The bank debt of €64 billion is not the debt of the Irish people and we are not responsible for it. It is the debt of speculating European banks and finance houses and it is those institutions which must be made to shoulder it. Ireland must get a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sugar Industry (8 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the Minister's support for the project. I understand building a plant takes two and a half years. There was a suggestion sowing sugar beet could commence in the 2016 season. Can the Minister give us an indication on the finalisation of the quota system and its knock-on effects on these two items?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sugar Industry (8 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: 3. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made regarding the re-establishment of the sugar industry here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21777/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sugar Industry (8 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Minister for his reply. The closure of the sugar beet industry in 2006 was completely unnecessary and wrong, as found by the European Court of Auditors in 2010. I welcome the Minister's indication on the scrapping of sugar quotas. While we had hoped that would happen in 2015, it would be welcome if we could be absolutely sure it would happen in 2017. The re-establishment of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Crisis (8 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: 171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the continuing bad weather, stretching back to Summer 2012, the resultant fodder shortage at present and the probable knock on fodder shortage this coming winter and spring 2014, if he will apply to the EU for emergency funding to address the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21778/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Recruitment (2 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: The public is entitled to effective policing. Unfortunately, we are fast approaching, if we have not already reached, a situation whereby the effectiveness of policing is being called into question. I refer in particular to the non-replacement of gardaí, the retirement of gardaí and the fact that we have no recruits in the training college in Templemore. There is a concern...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Recruitment (2 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: There is none or very few dedicated community gardaí as they are being called here, there and everywhere to cover other areas. There is an essential need for community gardaí to talk, interact, liaise with and get to know young people in order to get them on board at an early age. The community garda system is in danger of breaking down.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Recruitment (2 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister said he has a difficulty with money but money is available. The Government has told us that the promissory note deal has saved approximately €1 billion a year, together with the restructuring of loans. Could he immediately recommence Garda recruitment and re-open the college in Templemore for the training of garda recruits as a matter of urgency?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Recruitment (2 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: 3. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he intends to recommence recruitment to An Garda Siochána; when he intends to re-open the Garda College in Templemore, County Tipperary for Garda training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20977/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Commemorative Coins (2 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: In Cashel.

Organ Donation: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this Private Member's motion. I commend my colleague, Deputy Tom Fleming, for introducing the motion and for presenting it in a simple and straightforward way. It brings the topic of organ donation to a new level and puts on the agenda a call for new legislation to ensure the future availability of organs for transplantation. I welcome the...