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Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: South Tipperary needs two additional driver testing centres, one at Carrick-on-Suir and one at Cashel. South Tipperary is particularly badly affected by the huge current backlog. The centres at Clonmel and Tipperary town have delays of 28 weeks, or seven months, which is simply not good enough. We have very poor public transport and there is no adequate transport serving major employers,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I believe this country must take action that is within our control, like stopping the Central Bank from facilitating the sale of Israeli state bonds, stopping all military flights through Shannon, even if that is a temporary measure-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: -----prosecuting airlines that are bringing armaments through our airspace and immediately reintroducing the occupied territories Bill in this House.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I am sorry but that is not good enough. We have to do more. Gaza is absolutely shocking. We have genocide and war crimes every hour of every day. The Palestinian people are being starved and bombed every hour of every day. Time is not on their side. Half a million are in a catastrophic state of hunger and starvation. Surely some country, or some leader, must stand up and take dramatic...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: We can do things without them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: We can do things ourselves.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I acknowledge what you have done but there are things you can do, and there are things this country can do, and they can do it now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Something dramatic needs to be done to stop this situation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Big things start small.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: It is a desperate situation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: One million Irish people, the Taoiseach's ancestors and mine, starved to death during the Great Famine in the 1840 and 1850s. Two million of us were driven to cross the Atlantic in coffin ships in search of mere survival. Thousands of us died on those ships. At home, our people died in cabins, in ditches, on the roads and in workhouses. There is hardly a parish in the country that has not...

Trade Union Recognition Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I welcome and strongly support the Trade Union Recognition Bill 2021. I compliment my colleagues in People Before Profit on bringing it forward. Not only do I believe in the right of workers to join a trade union, but I also believe that employers should be obliged to recognise the union and negotiate with it on the pay and conditions of its members. I have been a proud trade unionist...

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Like the previous speaker, I support this Sinn Féin motion. The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, in its report last October, stated that there are obvious areas where Ireland's infrastructure is much underdeveloped. The key areas to which it referred were housing, health, transport and electricity. It stated that when one compares Ireland's infrastructure with that of other high-income...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: The Courts Service recently announced that with effect from 1 November, the court sittings will be transferred from Carrick-on-Suir and Cashel to Clonmel. The decision came completely out of the blue and without any local consultation whatsoever. There appears to be a policy of stripping towns and local communities of locally based services. Youghal is also to lose its court service and,...

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Forty years ago, when I was first elected to Clonmel corporation, one of the first issues I dealt with was childcare. I said at the time that a public childcare service was the solution to what was even then a difficult issue. After more than 25 years involvement in community childcare services in Elm Park in Clonmel, I am more convinced than ever that the public system is the only...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (1 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA-sponsored client visits to the IDA land at Ballingarrane, Clonmel in 2023 and 2024; the steps the IDA will take to find an enterprise for the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21941/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (1 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: This question relates to the IDA-owned site at Ballingarrane in Clonmel. Will the Minister outline the number of IDA-sponsored client visits to that site at Clonmel in 2023 and 2024? What steps will the IDA take to find an enterprise for the site?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (1 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Ballingarrane estate was purchased in 2001 by South Tipperary County Council, in what was a far-seeing decision, to provide a vital piece of infrastructure for industrial development, not just for Clonmel and south Tipperary, but also for the surrounding areas of west Waterford, east Limerick and west Kilkenny. It comprises 270 acres, 50 acres of which are owned by the IDA, as the Minister...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (1 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I remind the Minister that south Tipperary is not in the mid-west region. The IDA must ramp up its marketing of the Ballingarrane site. I am not satisfied that it has done enough. It must do more. I ask the Minister to intervene with the IDA to ramp up that marketing. There are some very successful industries in the area, including flagship industries, such as Abbott Vascular and Boston...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: Any national planning framework will be a failure unless it is underpinned by real and serious consultation with communities and community representatives at local level in a bottom-up approach. Communities must have the opportunity to make representations to statutory, elected democratic bodies to ensure their voices are heard. The only way this will be achieved is by re-establishing local...