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Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

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

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: No privacy and totally inadequate toilet facilities.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: That is not what I asked. The Taoiseach can read his notes forever but he should come to see the situation for himself.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: A Cheann Comhairle, will he answer the question?

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach is creating those conditions and the Government has no excuse because it has the money.

Restorative Justice (Reparation of Victims) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: Other speakers have referred to the fact that many countries have had a system of restorative justice in place for some time. The Bill raises various issues and principles of restorative justice – community restorative justice, the rights of victims and support services for them. I am sure Deputy John Halligan would agree that the Bill would benefit from the legislative process in...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: Thousands of Irish families are facing eviction. Ulster Bank alone has 4,700 repossession cases before the courts.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: At Clonmel court last Thursday, there were 30 such repossession cases and the same is happening in every courthouse right across this country. At the same time, thousands of Irish homes have been sold to foreign landlords. The Irish Nationwide Building Society non-performing loan book is being sold at knock down prices to American vulture capitalists Loan Star and Oakland Capital. What...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: They are not solvable.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: As the leader of this country, the Taoiseach is responsible for what is happening in relation to repossessions and evictions. As he well knows, thousands of families are unable to meet the insolvency criteria set down by this Government. Up to 30,000 families are facing eviction. This is happening every day throughout this country. At the same time, tax exiles and the Irish elite are...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: -----will have a property repossessed on foot of a debt of €50,000 while a friend of the bankers has €500,000, €1 million or €5 million written off.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: Can senior bankers give write-downs to each other? Will a banker be able to give a write-down to his political buddies in the local branch or cumann? During the boom years, these bankers gave huge loans to the Irish elite. The same people are now benefitting from these write-downs. The International Monetary Fund said in a recent report that the current situation here endangers social...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: Every day.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: Every day.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: What about the 30,000 cases that will not get written down?

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: We are concerned about the write-downs being given to bankers' buddies.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: The elite were given huge loans during the boom and now they are getting huge write-downs.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (8 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance the fraction of the book value that was paid recently by Lone Star and Oakland Capital for the non-performing loans which had been originally drawn down from Irish Nationwide Building Society; the status of the assurance by Lone Star and Oakland Capital that they will comply with Central Bank of Ireland guidelines in dealing with mortgage debt; the entity...

Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Minister has been inviting us to consider outcomes. Maybe we should examine some of the outcomes of the social and economic policy of this Government. The gap between rich and poor in Ireland is now four times the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, average. Incomes in the average Irish household have fallen by 50% and low income households lost a greater...

Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: Labour Party candidates asked the public to vote for them in order to stop child benefit cuts. The public put its trust in the Labour Party and what happened? The party has supported cuts in child benefit every year since it entered government.