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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: He has no income of his own, and there has been no change in family circumstances.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: Absolutely. This individual is in a wheelchair and has no access to repairs.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: When will the regional service plans be available?

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: Serious and significant damage has been done to the health service over the last five to six years, with huge cuts of €3 billion and 11,000 staff. Again this year we have €619 million of cuts and 2,600 staff lost. I pay tribute to health staff all over the country who work above and beyond the call of duty, every hour of every day. I especially wish to pay tribute to the...

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: The policies of successive Governments have allowed an elite golden circle of the rich and powerful in this country to obtain obscene levels of wealth at a time when the vast majority of people have seen their incomes reduced and have been struggling day in, day out to make ends meet. The message from last week's meeting in Davos and from the Paris School of Economics is that Irish society...

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Economic and Social Research Institute has independently studied the last three budgets and found them to be regressive, which means the budgets have taken the most from those who have the least. Low and middle income families-----

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: I am putting the question now. Low and middle income families have had their incomes undermined. They have been fleeced by increased taxes, such as the unfair household tax. They are struggling to make ends meet.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: In those circumstances, how can the Government justify the introduction of a new regressive water tax to be paid by families that are already at their wits' end?

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: Which ones?

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: We have heard the usual spin and untruths from the Tánaiste. Of course I have made proposals regarding wealth and asset taxes in this Chamber on numerous occasions.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: I have also done so in my budget submissions. The top 1% in this country, and indeed the top 10% in this country, have a completely disproportionate share of national income. The Government has refused to implement a wealth tax or an assets tax.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Tánaiste is on record as opposing water charges. I would like to quote something he once said.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: He said "the PAYE taxpayer has already paid enough for local services and should not have to pay again".

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: In 1994, he said that the Fianna Fáil-Labour Party Government had "imposed Residential Property Tax and now they are making us pay for water".

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: When water charges were abolished in 1997, he said the Government of the time was right to do that because they were "a form of double taxation".

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: The vast majority of people in this country have been fleeced and crucified over recent years. In those circumstances-----

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: -----and in light of the possibility of imposing wealth and assets taxes on very rich people in this country, will the Government withdraw the water charges that are proposed to commence in November of this year?

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: Is the Tánaiste accepting that I made a proposal in that regard?

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: I am making sure he tells the truth.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Government has decided to fleece families.