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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (27 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: 86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the detail of how and when he intends to implement the Programme for Government commitment to abolish the income limit for the carer’s allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8927/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (27 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: I congratulate the Minister on his appointment and wish him well in the Department. Both Government parties in their election manifestos committed to the abolition of the means test for the carer’s allowance. The public believed when those parties formed a Government that the means test would be abolished, if not immediately then certainly in the 2026 budget in October. There...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (27 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Minister for the reply, but we still have no clarity on when this means test will be abolished. As I said, the public believed the means test was going to be abolished either immediately on the formation of the Government or, at the very least, in budget 2026 in October of this year. From what the Minister said, there is absolutely no clarity on that. I acknowledge there have...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (27 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: In 2024, the Parliamentary Budget Office estimated the cost of abolishing the means test as €375.3 million, which is very similar to the figure Family Carers Ireland gave, of about €389 million. That is very small money in the scheme of things. The work of family carers ensures that people with disabilities can remain at home and do not have to take up expensive beds in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: The increased grants under the housing adaptation for older persons scheme that came into effect from 1 December have considerably improved that scheme. However, another change in the scheme, which went under the radar until recently, is very unhelpful. That change is the abolition, for whatever reason, of the new boiler grant for older people. This decision makes absolutely no sense and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: Proper heating also ensures savings to the State in respect of nursing home and hospital costs.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: I ask the Minister to reverse this very impractical decision.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: What about the boiler grant?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (26 Feb 2025)

Séamus Healy: 28. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current agreed establishment numbers required for the Naval Service; the current strength; the number of personnel available for sea-going duties; the steps being taken to retain and recruit personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6064/25]

Oideachas trí Mheán na Gaeilge: Tairiscint [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] (4 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: Molaim an rún seo, agus gabhaim buíochas le Sinn Féin as ucht an rún a chur faoi bhráid na Dála. Ba mhaith liom labhairt ar bhuncheist thábhachtach maidir leis an nGaeilge. Tháinig laghdú suntasach ar líon na ndaltaí atá ag freastal ar scoileanna lán-Ghaeilge le linn an Rialtais dheireanaigh. Níl iarbhunscoil...

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: The prevention of crime and antisocial behaviour requires a wide range of social, economic and community actions including education, employment, training, income, social inclusion, community facilities and community policing. I will say a few words on community policing. Over the past few years, community policing has effectively been dismantled, particularly since the introduction of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: Jigsaw is a youth mental health charity that provides free, non-judgmental and confidential therapy to young people between the ages of 12 and 15. It also gives families, educators and those who support young people's mental health ways to cope and the skills to be there for young people. Thankfully, after pressure from public representatives, this service was established successfully in...

Report of the Housing Commission: Statements (Resumed) (19 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: The right to housing is a human right, enshrined in Article 25 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The UN rapporteur on the right to housing reiterated that position, saying that although increasingly viewed as a commodity, housing is, most importantly, a human right. The Housing Commission report seeks to vindicate that human right. It says that housing must be a unique,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Men's Sheds (19 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Minister for Rural and Community Development for coming to the Chamber to respond to this issue, which concerns men's sheds. I have been contacted by 17 different men's sheds in County Tipperary, including those in Ballagh, Ballina, Borrisokane, Cahir, Carrick-on-Suir, Cashel, Clogheen, Clonmel, Fethard, Glengoole, Moycarky, Mullinahone, Nenagh, Roscrea, Silvermines, Thurles...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Men's Sheds (19 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: As the Minister has said, the continued existence and sustainability of men's sheds is vital for a number of reasons and he mentioned some of them there. They provide support for members by tackling a range of physical and mental health conditions and helping to provide inherent health benefits to a quarter of the population who are disproportionately affected by health issues. They also...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Yield (20 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the revenue generated from motor tax in County Tipperary in the years of 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [12959/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 276. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in Tipperary that applied for the Power Up grant; the number of the applications that were successful; and the total value of the grants approved. [12961/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding provided for capital projects for schools in County Tipperary from 2021 to date in 2025, in tabular form. [12958/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (20 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 348. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the capital disregard of farm assist to €34,000. [12960/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (20 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: 403. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide details of autism assessment waiting times in CHO 5. [12962/25]