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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: When is this Government going to stop failing children with disabilities? Next Tuesday, Cara Darmody, a teenage disability rights campaigner from Ardfinnan in my constituency, will start a 50-hour sleep-out in pursuit of urgent and immediate action to secure assessments of need for children with additional needs within the six-month legal limit. There are over 14,000 children on the waiting...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Government Reform (15 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will immediately establish the local democracy task force promised in the programme for Government 2025 with a view to the early re-establishment of borough and town councils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24258/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Government Reform (15 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Local government is the beating heart of democracy. It was abolished in 2014 by the Fine Gael and Labour Government. When will the Minister establish the local democracy task force promised in the programme for Government 2025 to re-establish local government?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Government Reform (15 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Minister. The town and borough councils were abolished in 2014. They were replaced by committees with no powers, functions or funding. This abolition of town and borough councils has seriously damaged towns throughout the country, including in Clonmel where we had a form of local government going back to the 1400s. This is a very serious issue. I had hoped the Minister of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (15 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the income limits to qualify for social housing as the current limits exclude a large cohort of individuals and families from both social housing and mortgage approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24261/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will amend the local authority differential rent scheme to exclude carer's allowance and carer's benefit from rent assessment under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24262/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will establish a State-sponsored housing infrastructure investment fund to provide finance for a major construction of social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24260/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will amend the local authority house purchase scheme to enable tenants to purchase "section 5" houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24259/25]

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...