Results 81-100 of 2,839 for speaker:Séamus Healy

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Séamus Healy: Has the Minister for Health and Children sought and received legal advice on the eligibility of elderly medical card holders who have been forced into private nursing homes due to the unavailability of beds in public hospitals or nursing homes or because they have been refused such beds? Is there another time-bomb ticking in the Department regarding this issue? Are the Minister and the...

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Séamus Healy: Has specific advice been obtained on private beds in private nursing homes?

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Séamus Healy: I am making the point that quite a substantial number——

Report on Long-Stay Care Charges: Motion. (10 Mar 2005)

Séamus Healy: ——of elderly patients with medical cards are not well-off. They are forced into private nursing homes because there are no beds available or because they have not been available in public hospitals and homes. They are in severe financial difficulty as a result.

Job Creation. (10 Mar 2005)

Séamus Healy: Carrick-on-Suir is a lovely and progressive town with a population of approximately 5,000. Carrick-on-Suir Town Council has been involved in upgrading certain facilities in the town in recent years. It has improved the town's quality of life by pursuing a host of developments, such as the installation of quality public lighting, the provision of additional car parking facilities, the...

Job Creation. (10 Mar 2005)

Séamus Healy: Some 20% of the population is on the dole.

Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (22 Mar 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of national importance, namely, the urgent need for the Government to introduce maximum class size guidelines, which will ensure that average class sizes for children under nine years of age will be below the international best practice guidelines of 1:20, as promised in the programme for Government, and to ask...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (22 Mar 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 562: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when her Department will commence the urgent upgrading of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary with a modern building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8881/05]

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

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of urgent national importance, namely, in view of the recent inhumane deportations, the need for the Government to reverse these decisions and to declare an amnesty for all asylum seekers already resident in the State, and to ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to make a statement on the matter.

Leaders' Questions. (12 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: Hear, hear.

Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (12 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter of national importance: the ongoing cutbacks in FÁS community employment schemes, involving the loss of jobs, the closure of schemes and damage to the fabric of community life. I urge the Minister to remove immediately the three-year cap on these schemes and to make a statement on the matter.

Community Employment Schemes. (14 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me an opportunity to raise this issue on the Adjournment. On 5 April, I received a letter from FÁS, the training and employment authority, in response to a representation I made to the authority regarding employment for a worker as a book-keeper. Part of the reply read as follows: Furthermore, the FÁS budget for Community Employment has been reduced by...

Leaders' Questions. (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: They are non-existent.

Leaders' Questions. (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: There are fewer gardaí in Clonmel now than ten years ago.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of importance, namely, the urgent need for the Minister for Health and Children and the Health Service Executive to implement the High Court agreement for the provision of general hospital services for south Tipperary, including the transfer of general surgical services to the South Tipperary General...

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: There are 70,000 families on local authority housing lists. Is that demand?

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: Government policy was to build 5,000 local authority houses while 70,000 families are on the waiting lists.

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: What about the local authority lists?

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: What about the housing waiting lists?

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: The most important thing the Government could do in response to this motion is to accept that a housing crisis exists. The housing crisis is a damning indictment of the abject failure of the Government to deal with the housing situation. It is a crisis when 70,000 families are on local authority housing waiting lists. It is a crisis when one has, as is the case in south Tipperary, a 40%...