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Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Tánaiste has refused to answer the question. I have asked about a specific group, comprising families, that will not qualify for the insolvency arrangements about which the Tánaiste has spoken. He may not accept it but it is accepted widely, both within this House and outside it, that thousands of families do not qualify for the insolvency arrangements. New research by Grant...

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: Will the Government exercise sovereignty by preventing reckless bailed-out banks, some owned by international vulture capitalists, from evicting 30,000 families in this country?

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: There is a particular group.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: There is a group of 30,000.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: There are.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: The group does not qualify for the arrangements, as the Tánaiste knows.

Electricity Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: There are significant concerns, anger and frustration at the GridLink 25 proposal across the Munster counties of Cork, Tipperary and Waterford and the Leinster counties of Wexford, Kilkenny, Kildare and Carlow. Thousands have turned out at public meetings across the areas in question. I congratulate all of the various action groups involved and the legendary cyclist, Sean Kelly, for his...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: Here we go again.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: There are 30,000, they are not individuals.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (10 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the fact that any option to sell the preference shares to third party investors is a decision for the State alone, if he has decided to sell any of the preference shares held by the State in Bank of Ireland to third party investors; if he has, the portion of the preference shares that will be sold to third party investors; in view of the fact...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Issues (10 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: 303. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the proposal to introduce a compulsory angler registration charge; if he has considered the damage this would do to angling tourism and the development of angling generally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53098/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (10 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: 545. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant schemes; if the interdepartmental group has reported; if not, when the report is due; the timeline for the introduction of the proposed statutory schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53100/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (10 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: I have two brief questions. At what stage are we at in being able to guarantee that these difficulties will not arise again? Are there pre-inspections and unannounced inspections of materials and the manufacturing of these implants?

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: Christmas can be a lonely and difficult time of the year for the poor and low-income families, for the elderly, for carers and for long-term social welfare recipients. The Christmas bonus made Christmas for many such families and gave them a little bit of comfort. The official State statistics agency, namely, the Central Statistics Office, has found that almost one quarter of the people do...

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: That is a mean and shameful reply. However, those are not my words. Those are the words of Deputy Eamon Gilmore, leader of the Labour Party, when he addressed a question on Leaders' Questions to a former Taoiseach who had abolished that bonus:This payment has been made to pensioners every year for 30 years, even in some of the country’s most difficult economic years ... for the first...

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: I want to ask Deputy Eamon Gilmore and the Labour Party how they can stand over not restoring the Christmas bonus in these circumstances.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: I am referring to how wealthy people were comforted by the previous Government. We know that during the course of this Government since Deputy Gilmore and the Taoiseach came to power-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: -----we know from the Sunday Independent 300 rich list that they have increased their wealth by €9 billion since 2011.

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: That is €9,000 million. A very small tax, wealth assets or income tax, on these very wealthy individuals would cover-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: I have a question.