Results 161-180 of 2,967 for speaker:Séamus Healy

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: -----and Ennis hospital and to reopen Our Lady's Hospital Cashel, a state-of-the-art hospital which has been vacant for the past ten years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach has the responsibility to solve this problem. He can do it. The question is whether he has the political will to do it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: This situation is normal, is it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: The Government will not tax the rich then.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: I referred to higher taxes on billionaires, who own 27.3% of all the wealth in this country. They are the 1%.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: From 2002 on, successive Governments have espoused and implemented the downgrading of hospitals and the transfer of acute hospital services to so-called centres of excellence. We all know that that policy has created chaos. It was wrong then and it is wrong now, and it should never have happened. We in south Tipperary were lucky that 15,000 people on the streets stopped the transfer of our...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: We have a moratorium on the recruitment of staff. There are 432 vacant posts for staff nurses, public health nurses and staff midwives. There are more than 500 nurse vacancies in mental health services. I know three nursing posts have been vacant for the past six months in south Tipperary mental health services, child and adolescent mental health services-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: -----and mental health services in the accident and emergency department in Clonmel. Is it now time to accept that the policy of downgrading hospitals has failed and that the policy should be reversed? Is it not time to agree to the reopening of the accident and emergency department in Ennis and Nenagh?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Oct 2019)

Séamus Healy: 157. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the shortage of the BCG vaccine here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43859/19]

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Séamus Healy: I am right. It was closed by Kathleen Lynch, a Minister of State in the previous Government.

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Séamus Healy: I am right. We took that case to the High Court and indeed to the Supreme Court. Former Deputy Kathleen Lynch, who was a Minister of State, closed it. She told me and the deputation in this House that the closure of the unit was not set in stone but in blood. The Minister of State, Deputy Kehoe, can take that for absolute fact. People who need inpatient mental health facilities in south...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Séamus Healy: That is a fair statement, but my perspective might be a little different from some of the others.

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Séamus Healy: Budget 2020 and the Finance Bill are the structure, framework or scaffolding, if one wishes, that creates, continues and supports a deeply unequal society in this country. What we have in them is socially unfair and socially divisive and deliberately increases the rich-poor divide in our society. Even the ESRI has described the budget as regressive, which is something unusual for the ESRI....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (23 Oct 2019)

Séamus Healy: 178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the urgent need for the provision of a support grant for families that face increased refuse charges due to the fact a family member uses incontinence pads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43797/19]

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion, which I support. I commend Sinn Féin on tabling it. It is appropriate that it has been tabled the week after a budget that will drive more and more families into poverty. Even the ESRI indicated that the budget hit the least well-off hardest. There is no doubt that Ireland is a low-wage economy with a significant rich-poor divide. The...

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...