Results 2,761-2,780 of 23,649 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive cut 3,200 full time equivalent posts in the health service in 2013, where will the majority of these persons be drawn from; if they will be from frontline services or from management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56497/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (18 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the Health Service Executive not to inflate the 0.3% cut already announced with regard to organisations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57000/12]
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: I will certainly be brief.
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Information has come to light over the past couple of days from the Office of Public Works that proves it will cost more to close Garda stations than keep them open.
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: It is a criminal justice Bill. Will the Taoiseach ask the Minister for Justice and Equality on his left if he will reverse from what he is now doing, which will end up costing the State more money-----
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: -----than if he kept the stations open?
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: He is putting them into community centres. The man does not know what he is doing.
- Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (19 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: I also indicated.
- Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (19 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: I raised my issue with the Minister previously. I appreciate from where he is coming when he refers to creditors, as I know what it is to be a creditor. Perhaps unlike him, my other work often entails my being owed money by people who find themselves in a position of being unable to pay. I can view the issue from both sides of the coin. The figure is set too low. I appreciate the...
- Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (19 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: I genuinely believe the figure the Minister has set is too low. There is a groundswell of opposition. People outside the Houses know which figure is being chosen and are unhappy with it. Anyone can run into financial difficulty in the current economic climate. Regarding the point on which Deputy Niall Collins sought clarification, it is good the figure can be raised at a future date, but...
- Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (19 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Only somebody like the Minister.
- Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (19 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: It was the Minister who got personal.
- Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (19 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister started it and he knows he started it. If he cannot take it, he should not give it out.
- Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (19 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister is wrong again.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding (19 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding in respect of a community centre (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57330/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (19 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57127/12]
- Order of Business (20 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister of State, Deputy Alan Kelly, has been working diligently on the taxi regulation Bill. What will be done for taxi drivers who want to transfer their taxi licence? Will that matter be addressed in the Bill?
- Order of Business (20 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Is Deputy Howlin the new Ceann Comhairle?
- Order of Business (20 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: I would like the Tánaiste to answer, in the spirit of the season.
- Order of Business (20 Dec 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle.