Results 161-180 of 2,932 for speaker:Séamus Healy

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the payment of PAYE taxation by persons who reside here but have a pension from both Ireland and Germany; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24756/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (13 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school transport for children (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [24638/19]

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: The Minister of State has said a number of times tonight that no hours will be cut. I live in the real world, and what will happen is that there will be a new method of assessment of people for home help hours and, whether the Minister of State wants to call it a cut or a new method of assessment, people will end up with fewer home help hours. That is what will happen in the real world. It...

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: What is the cost per hour of the private operators as against the cost per hour of HSE staff?

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: Stopping the home help service for the next five months is genuinely shocking and it proves again, if proof were needed, that the Government is out of touch with the real world. A total of 6,310 people are waiting for a home help service and what do we do? We stop the service for five months. It is unbelievable. One would wonder if this is a Third World country. Of course, we are far...

Defence Forces: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: I will be sharing time with Deputy Naughten.I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion and to support it and the Sinn Féin and Labour Party amendments. I am shocked by the Government's amendment. It betrays an unbelievable arrogance and shows that the Government is out of touch with the situation that has developed within the Permanent Defence Force. During the course of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: The Government has done it twice already.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: It was done for two groups already.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: The Defence Forces are entitled to the same treatment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach is the Minister for Defence and is responsible to the Dáil and the public for the state of the Defence Forces. During the recent local election campaign, the undermining of our Defence Forces was one of the most frequently raised issues on the doorstep. It is clear that the policy being pursued by the Taoiseach and his Government, which that commenced with the so-called...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: Time and again, we have heard the mantra of the public service pay agreement. It has been repeated ad nauseamthis afternoon. I remind the Taoiseach that, in November 2018, the Government gave the average garda an extra €4,000 per annum through an increase in rent allowance and other concessions under a €50 million deal. I remind the Taoiseach that when he and his Government...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (12 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a new school building by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24407/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (12 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: 147. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an assessment of needs for a child (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24355/19]

National Development Plan: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak to this Private Members' motion and confirm my support for it. There is no doubt that the launch of this plan was a mix of ballyhoo, spin and marketing, as was referred to by other Members. The whole situation was bizarre. We have been talking about balanced regional development for decades, but this plan has nothing to do with it. If anything, it has to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (29 May 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the Minister of State's reply and thank him for the detail of it. I particularly welcome the fact that he believes this project is a priority issue for mental health services in Tipperary. The existing crisis house is not fit for purpose. It is an old building. It is particularly not fit for purpose having regard to modern psychiatry and modern standards. The construction of a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (29 May 2019)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle’s office for giving me the opportunity to raise this issue. Mental health services in Tipperary were devastated in 2012 following the closure by the then Minister of State, Kathleen Lynch, of St. Michael's inpatient unit at South Tipperary General Hospital in Clonmel. That decision left north and south Tipperary with a mental health service which was...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (14 May 2019)

Séamus Healy: 98. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if tenders for building the multi-role vessel, MRV, have been received (details supplied) in view of the fact that the 2019 budget is now in place; if so, if a tender for the building of same has been accepted; the full expected cost of same when delivered; the delivery date for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20568/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (14 May 2019)

Séamus Healy: 105. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 47 of 3 October 2018, if tenders for building the multi-role vessel have been received in view of the fact that the 2019 budget is now in place; if so, if a tender for building of the vessel has been accepted; the full cost of the vessel when delivered; the delivery date for the ship which has been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (8 May 2019)

Séamus Healy: 609. To ask the Minister for Health if pharmacy qualified assistants will be entitled to continue to provide cover for pharmacists as heretofore in view of legislative proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18408/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Apr 2019)

Séamus Healy: 301. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the shortage of the BCG vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17365/19]