Results 221-240 of 2,839 for speaker:Séamus Healy

Housing Policy: Statements (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: We should build at least 20,000 social and affordable units, not the 6,000 being provided.

Housing Policy: Statements (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: What is the Minister doing if that is the case?

Housing Policy: Statements (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: There are 60,000 families on waiting lists.

Housing Policy: Statements (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. I was here earlier to hear Deputy Fleming tell us that there was no housing crisis and everything was hunky-dory. As we speak, there are 50,000 families on local authority house waiting lists. That is 10,000 more than when the Government parties took office in 1997. If that is not a crisis, I do not know what is. The reason there is a crisis...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (17 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of urgent importance, namely, the need for the Government to deliver designated transport for cancer patients attending centres in Cork and Dublin for radiotherapy treatments. Critically ill patients are under severe financial pressure trying to find their own transport, with local charities being forced to help out.

Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (17 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on the Bill. As Deputies have noted, its purpose is to transpose an EU directive into Irish law and, as usual, we are late in doing so. Having read the text of the legislation and followed its passage through the Seanad, it is clear the Government has opted to do the bare minimum in fulfilling its obligation to transpose the directive. It is a pity...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (23 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of local and national importance, namely, the need for the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to stop the wholesale and disgraceful withdrawal of medical cards, including from cancer patients, now under way, under the guise of the introduction of the GP-only card; and to ask the Minister to make a...

Garda Recruitment. (23 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the appointment of designated community gardaí in every Garda district will be approved with a view to combating the scourge of anti-social behaviour (details supplied). [35867/05]

Garda Recruitment. (23 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: The Minister stated that some 500 community gardaí were in place as of 21 June 2005. In view of anti-social behaviour in urban and rural areas, is the Minister serious in stating the Department and the Garda Síochána are taking this matter seriously? What does the all-time high, to which he refers, mean? There is not one dedicated community garda in the town of Clonmel or County Tipperary....

Garda Recruitment. (23 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: The Minister is clearly in need of information. Is it acceptable that in a town the size of Clonmel, there is no dedicated community garda and no increase in garda numbers over the past ten years? In the case of Fethard is he satisfied Garda authorities have refused to replace one of three gardaí who served the town in past years?

Garda Recruitment. (23 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: I asked that before.

Garda Recruitment. (23 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: We are discussing community policing, a matter the Minister has refused to address.

Garda Recruitment. (23 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: That is what we seek and the Minister is refusing to provide it.

Garda Recruitment. (23 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: I said nothing on public order offences.

Garda Recruitment. (23 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: When will this happen?

Garda Recruitment. (23 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: Does the Minister accept that anti-social behaviour of the order we see is the forerunner of gangsterism and of the type of murders seen over the past two or three weeks? Will the Minister do anything about this? Will he increase the mealy-mouthed number of community gardaí, namely, 500 gardaí as of 21 June 2005, to deal with this situation across the country?

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 154: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the free schemes will be amended to allow pensioners at 65 years and over qualify for these schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35792/05]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (24 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for the Minister for Education and Science and the Government to provide the €50 million in the upcoming budget that is necessary to implement the McIver report that was commissioned under the terms of Sustaining Progress to provide appropriate resourcing, staffing, structuring and...

Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: What does the Government propose to do about the long delays in the connection of electricity to housing estates, particularly local authority housing estates? There was a three month delay in one case in my constituency.

Order of Business. (24 Nov 2005)

Séamus Healy: When will we see the Electricity Bill?