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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Income Statistics (28 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: The marginal rate is quite different from the effective rate, which is in the region of 39% for these individuals. I suggest that, at a time when we are abolishing mobility payments, taking €350 million per year from low paid public sector workers, abolishing exceptional needs payments for needy families and imposing a property tax on households in negative equity or mortgage arrears,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child and Family Support Agency: Discussion (28 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: I will be brief, as most of the issues have been raised. I support the agency's establishment, there is widespread support for it and goodwill towards Mr. Jeyes and the entire concept. However, it is a significant undertaking. Although it cannot be compared with the change from the health boards to the HSE, that kind of change comes to mind. I am not satisfied that the change to the HSE...

State Forestry: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: This proposal or any proposal to sell the Coillte harvesting rights is madness on a number of counts. It shows again that this Government has lost touch entirely with the people of Ireland because access to the forestry and woodlands, and to mountain areas through those woodlands, is part of what we are as Irish people; it is certainly part of what I am. I was born in a place called...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (26 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the details of the legislation underpinning the importation of motor homes here; the details of changes made in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10320/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Eligibility (26 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will withdraw S.W.A. Circular No 1/2013 Paragraph 4.1 which abolishes exceptional needs payments to needy families for communion and confirmation, particularly in view of the fact that child benefit payments have again been reduced in 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10314/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility (26 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm the details of the recently announced local authority tenant purchase scheme; the date of publication ; the date of commencement of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10315/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Support Agency (26 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will review her decision to move psychology services out of the Health Service Executive and into the new Child and Family Support Agency and consider an alternative proposal where psychology services remain in primary care with contractual arrangements with the Child and Family Support Agency; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Information and Quality Authority Investigations (26 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to introduce legislation to enable the Health Information and Quality Authority to inspect and investigate any problems, should they exist, in sheltered homes for the elderly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10318/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits by industrialists to south Tipperary in 2012, facilitated by his Department and the various job development agencies; the number of visits specifically targeted at vacant advance factories and vacant private facilities in 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9406/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: Our first thoughts this evening are with the 245 staff in Abbott in Clonmel who have just heard the devastating news of job losses this afternoon. I ask the Minister to intervene personally to ensure the staff affected get a good financial package, the required training and upskilling to enable them to take up future employment, to intervene with the company - which is a large one that has a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: I reiterate the need for a task force for south Tipperary. Unemployment figures for the county are significant and have almost trebled in recent years. The number unemployed in Clonmel has increased from 1,068 to 2,907. In Carrick-on-Suir, which has a population of approximately 6,000, there are 2,007 unemployed. The number unemployed in Tipperary Town, which is a similar size, has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: -----and the number unemployed in Cashel is 1,196. In view of those figures, today's job losses in Abbott, the closure of Kickham Barracks and other closures, I ask the Minister to consider establishing a task force for the area.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: He will not take it off the rich anyway.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: Unfortunately reviews always mean reductions.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: I am not. Medical cards and SUSI were complete disasters.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: Absolutely, or in the opposite direction.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister could close the road from Clonmel to Kilkenny if he wishes. Too many things have gone in that direction recently.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To Kilkenny from Clonmel, such as the barracks and our acute psychiatric unit.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister is not doing it.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: No, the 595,000-----