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Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: There is no doubt in my mind but that this so-called local property tax is no such thing. It is solely a family home tax. I remind the Minister that, while in opposition, the Taoiseach told us that any attempt to tax the family home would be unfair. He may also have called it immoral. If I am not mistaken, the Minister made a similar comment while in opposition. This family home tax...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: I most certainly did.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: I said the Bill was guillotined which did not give public representatives any opportunity to debate ---

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Exemptions (5 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding homes purchased under the local authority shared ownership schemes; if these homes are subject to the local property tax; if so, the person responsible for the payment of this tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11272/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Savings Scheme (5 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Finance if returns arising from the investments in the Ten Year National Solidarity Bond issued under the National Instalment Savings Scheme will be subject to deductions for PRSI and/or universal social charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11275/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: I will be brief. I apologise for being late; I was speaking in the Dáil. I welcome the doctors. My last direct involvement in the hospital service was approximately 15 years ago. It was an issue then and clearly it remains an issue. It is a more serious issue now because as the doctors have said the complexity of the work and the workload is entirely different today from what it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the HSE staff to this meeting. Mr. O'Brien has outlined the figures fairly clearly and we see there has been a reduction of €3.3 billion or 22% in the health budget in recent years. Approximately 10,000 staff have left the health service already. This year there will be a further cut of €721 million to the budget and a net reduction, if I am correct, of around 3,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: Have all the orthopaedic consultant posts at Waterford Regional Hospital been filled?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: Are occupational therapists or physiotherapists in place in Waterford?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: My concern is the same as the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: I ask Mr. O'Brien to address my question on consultations with stakeholders.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: I asked about consultations generally, not just the generalisation of it.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: Lack of heating kills 1,200 people in this country every year. That shocking fact was disclosed yesterday at a fuel poverty conference in Dublin. On top of that and despite the trebling of grant aid from St. Vincent de Paul-----

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: I am going there, a Cheann Comhairle. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has trebled its support to elderly people who are in need of heating from €3.8 million in 2008 to €10.4 million last year. I ask the Taoiseach to take the opportunity presented by the fact that the Finance Bill is before the House this week-----

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: -----to reverse the cuts to the free fuels------

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: -----and electricity scheme.

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion [Private Members] (12 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: I wish to share time with Deputy Mattie McGrath.

Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion [Private Members] (12 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on this Private Members' motion. I make no excuse to Deputy Lyons or anybody else for saying this Government does not care. The fact is that if this Government cared, it would stop destroying jobs and creating unemployment in this country. The first thing it would do is to stop the destruction of jobs in the public service, where 30,000 jobs...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (12 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement without delay the provision of an Anomaly Scan at 20 weeks duration of pregnancy for all pregnant women in Ireland as part of the routine ante-natal screening process in accordance with best international practice; if he will make this provision available in public maternity hospitals throughout the State; and if he will make a statement on...

European Council: Statements (13 Mar 2013)

Séamus Healy: Debt is a huge millstone around the necks of the Irish people and taxpayers. The payment of billions of euro in debt every year by taxpayers is crucifying families in this country, particularly low- and middle-income families. This debt is not the debt of the people. We are not and were not responsible for it and we should not be asked to pay it. It is the responsibility of the banks,...