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

Séamus Healy: The Minister will not tax them.

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

Séamus Healy: The Bill provides for more taxation, pure and simple. It is additional taxation for almost every household in the country, effectively targeting lower and middle-income families once again. The AA has stated:There is no way to dress it up: the car tax increase announced today will push up the cost of living for car owners affecting almost every household in the country... However for the...

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: This Finance Bill continues the programme of austerity the Government has embraced since it came to power, having promised and committed otherwise during the general election campaign. It targets low and middle-income families, is deeply unjust and regressive and deepens the divide in Irish society. It is important to remember what this austerity means in practice. I have to hand recent...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the recent resignation of a senior official (details supplied) who was head of Shareholder Management Unit, in his Department, to take up a senior position at Bank of Ireland and his possession of vital up to date information which might be of advantage to the now privately owned Bank of Ireland and its north American investor, the fact that the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (19 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the position of Credit Union Investments in the Irish Bank Resolutions Corporation and if these investments will be repaid in full, particularly since these investment bonds offered 100% capital security through an eight year three months fixed term deposit facility due to mature in September 2013; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that there will be sufficient medical intern places for graduates of medical schools here available in hospitals from July 2013 as recommended in various reports including the Fottrell Report 2006, the NCMET Report and the Second Interim Report on the Implementation of the Reform of the Intern Year, April 2012; and if he will make a statement...

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: This is not the debt of the people but a private debt which has been placed on the shoulders of our children and grandchildren. IBRC may be gone but the debt has not. It has also been turned into a €64 billion debt rather than a €35 billion debt. The Government claims it has saved significant amounts of money on this debt. Going into the last general election, the Labour...

Magdalen Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To a large extent the report confirms what we knew already, and what we knew was that approximately 10,000 women entered these Magdalen laundries from the time of the foundation of the State up to 1996 when the last one closed. We know that the State was involved in almost every aspect of the life of these laundries. For instance, there is evidence that it was involved in the routes by...

European Council: Statements (13 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: This reduced budget is a recipe for continued and deepening recession. At a time when we need growth and stimulus we are getting further reductions and austerity. That austerity takes more money out of the economy of Europe and the Irish economy and as a result involves more closures and increased unemployment. We are in fact continuing the current situation of austerity, stagnation and...

Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: Last week the Government agreed to pay every last cent of the private debts of bankers and bondholders. Those debts amount to many billions of euro. At the same time, the Minister for Social Protection so-called, Deputy Burton, issued an instruction that needy families-----

Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: There is legislation in this area and if the Ceann Comhairle allows me to continue, I will refer to it. The Minister for Social Protection so-called, Deputy Burton, issued an instruction to local community welfare officers to stop-----

Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: I am doing so.

Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister issued an instruction to the effect that the payment of grants to needy families in respect of children making their Holy Community or confirmation should be stopped.

Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: Legislation is not required to overturn the decision to which I refer. It can be reversed-----

Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: If legislation is required, then the social welfare and pensions Bill should suffice. The Taoiseach should say that he is going to instruct the Minister to reverse-----

Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: -----this absolutely disgraceful decision which relates to needy people who have nothing left when they have paid their bills.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Standards Authority of Ireland Staff (13 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of certification officers who have retired in the past five years from the National Standards Authority of Ireland; the number who have been re-engaged on a contractual basis or on a consultancy basis to carry out certification duties from NSAI clients, for new clients and or for the authority [7664/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Health if it is order for general practitioners to charge medical card holders for Warfarin readings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7277/13]

Promissory Notes: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: In 2016, we will commemorate the 1916 Rising and the execution of James Connolly who was as opposed to the capitalist system as I am. Like him, I have no confidence in the rich and political parties they fund to resolve the current crisis in the interest of the Irish people. In Connolly's time, the rules of capitalism were relatively simple, namely, if the wealthy invested wisely they made...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the Minister's comments on the Bill which I support. Will he comment on the need to continue to charge a high price for these products? Will he comment specifically on the possibility of having an environment levy, as proposed by a number of agencies? On the question of smuggling, will he comment on the penalties for being caught in the act of smuggling tobacco products and the...