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Protection of Residential Mortgage Account Holders Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: Tá mé ag iarraidh a fháil amach ón Aire cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ó thaobh na cártaí seirbhísí poiblí, an méid daoine atá á n-úsáid agus na háiteanna ina bhfuil siad ar fáil. Iarraim ar an Aire ráiteas a dhéanamh. I support this Bill. Last year was the hundredth anniversary of...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: This Government is selling off Ireland to foreign vulture capitalists. The Tánaiste, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, accused the former Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government of economic treason, but that economic treason continues under the Labour Party-Fine Gael Government as the country is sold off to foreign vulture capitalists with Deputy Eamon Gilmore as Tánaiste. Mortgages on homes,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Report on Perinatal Deaths at Midland Regional Hospital: Discussion (6 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: It is important to thank the families who have persisted in raising these issues. It is also important to thank the Minister for the manner in which he has dealt with the situation and to welcome the report of Dr. Tony Holohan, the chief medical officer, in relation to this matter. There appears to be unprecedented failures here. It is truly shocking to learn of the lack of respect and...

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: Tá a fhios againn go léir go bhfuil 121,000 morgáiste in iarmharach. Tá 60,000 dóibh sin in iarmharach ar feadh bliain agus tá 33,500 in iarmharach ar feadh níos mó ná dhá bhliain. Tá 30,000 clann ar a laghad i mbaol a bheith curtha amach ach as a tithe cónaithe. Tá imní orm gur tugadh 1,500 cás nua chun tithe...

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: Of course it is possible.

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: Tá 30,000 clann ar a laghad i mbaol a bheith díbeartha as a teach cónaithe. Tá sé soiléir go bhfuil feall mór á imirt ag an Rialtas ar mhuintir na tíre agus go bhfuil an Rialtas chun dul ar aghaidh leis sin gan stad gan staonadh. Thug an tAire Shatter tuarascáil an ghrúpa saineolaithe os comhair an Cabinet ag moladh gur chóir an...

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: Has the Government agreed to the Minister, Deputy Shatter's proposal?

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: Before I start my question I wish to tell the Taoiseach he has espoused and stated his Government is leading a democratic revolution, but I regard it as absolutely undemocratic he should have excluded representatives of the Technical Group-----

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: -----from the briefing he gave to other Members of the House earlier this afternoon. He chose to exclude one third of the Opposition and I certainly hope it will never happen again. My question is on the crisis in the health service. The Government has cut more than €3 billion and 12,500 staff from the health services in recent years. In 2014 a minimum of €619 million and...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: This is an ongoing situation and the conditions are Third World. The staff simply cannot deal with the number of patients and are struggling to provide a decent and safe service. Will the Taoiseach apologise to patients and their families for the conditions they are being forced to endure in the emergency department? Will he immediately instruct the HSE to implement the proposal from the...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: I am asking the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach is the leader of the Government and is responsible.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: I asked about a single issue which is underfunding and overcrowding in the emergency department.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: No; the Government is forcing them to operate like that.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: The number of trolleys has quadrupled.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: The policies of the Government and the cuts it has introduced in the health services have quadrupled the number of trolleys and chairs in the emergency department at South Tipperary General Hospital, from 750 in the year the Taoiseach came into office to 3,100 at the end of 2013.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: I invite the Taoiseach to visit South Tipperary General Hospital to see that absolutely excellent hospital and its excellent staff who are at their wits' end because of the cuts the Government has introduced. If only from the point of view of human decency, the Taoiseach should take action to solve this problem. There is no excuse not to deal with this problem, because the money is...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: It is the Taoiseach's duty to make sure people have a decent health service of quality. I again ask him to visit the aforementioned hospital and, by instructing the Health Service Executive, to ensure the putting in place of additional beds at Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel, and South Tipperary General Hospital, as well as additional consultant, nursing, medical and support staff in the...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: It absolutely is.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: They are being blackguarded by the Taoiseach and the Government.