Results 161-180 of 2,839 for speaker:Séamus Healy

Unemployment Levels. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: There are 960 people out of work.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: I wish to request the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of urgent national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to expand the terms of reference of the Hartnett-Rossiter inquiry and to establish the inquiry under recent public inquiry legislation introduced by the Minister instead of the out of date Dublin Police...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (29 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: I wish to request the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of urgent national importance, namely the need for the Government to honour its election promise and programme for Government by introducing maximum class guidelines to ensure the pupil-teacher ratio for children under nine years of age is below international best practice of 1:20. Government inaction...

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed). (29 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: I support the motion, which asks the Comptroller and Auditor General to review and report to the Oireachtas on the procedure concerning the purchase of the land in question. I listened to Deputy Hoctor commend the Minister for his work in the area of justice. I would remind her of the 2,000 gardaí we were to have under the programme for Government, the absence of community gardaí in many...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (4 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need to remove the funding cap imposed in 2002 on Rape Crisis centres and services for support of women who have experienced domestic violence and that these services be adequately funded in the forthcoming budget to ensure that a full and effective service is provided by these organisations.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise the following matter of urgent national importance: the need for the Minister for Social and Family Affairs to double the winter fuel allowance payable to social welfare recipients in view of the recent 25% increase in the price of gas from 1 October and the fact that the €9 fuel allowance will not now even buy a...

Public Finances. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of current budget surplus on revenue accounts for each year from 1998 to 2004 in accordance with Irish and European accounting procedures; and the use to which these surpluses were put. [26931/05]

Public Finances. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: What the Minister has told us is that in the eight years since the Government is in office there is something like €34 billion of a surplus on day-to-day spending. From what he said it is clear the vast majority of that is being spent on capital projects. Should we not prioritise human need over physical infrastructure? What is, in fact, happening with those large surpluses is that they are...

Public Finances. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: It is a question of how that is done and of where the money comes from.

Public Finances. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Is it not true that every other European country borrows for capital projects and that those projects serve generations of people, not just a single generation? Therefore, capital projects should be paid for over a number of generations through capital borrowing. Is the Minister saying he is successful in spite of the trolleys and MRSA in hospital wards, the 50,000 families on the waiting...

Public Finances. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Almost 1,000 people are unemployed in Carrick-on-Suir. The Minister could have done something about it by decentralising a State body to the region. Why did he not do so?

Public Finances. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: He could have done so two years ago. Why did he not do it?

Public Finances. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Some 20% are unemployed in Carrick-an-Suir.

Report of Comptroller and Auditor General: Motion (Resumed). (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: I strongly support this motion. Waste has to be confronted, cannot be condoned and must be eliminated. As someone who has worked at the coalface of general hospital services for more than 20 years, I am keenly aware of the absolute need to efficiently use scarce resources. Were waste confronted, the additional monies made available could be used for hospital, educational and housing services....

Hospital Services. (5 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: This night three weeks ago a large public meeting was held in Clonmel on hospital services for the county. As the Minister of State, Deputy Tim O'Malley knows, the issue has been outstanding for quite some time. As far back as 1996 there was a High Court agreement for the provision of services on the Cashel and Clonmel sites. The Minister and the Department have not implemented that...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the transport sub-committee established as a result of the report on radiotherapy services; if the report has been completed three years on; the recommendations of the report; when she will publish the report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27638/05]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (11 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will include an amendment in legislation to allow appropriate tax incentives to apply to any proposed park and ride facilities to be provided by South Tipperary County Council on the same basis as the scheme applies in other locations throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27641/05]

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (11 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the Clonmel flood alleviation scheme; the outcome of the public consultation process; the timescale for the scheme; if the scheme will be fast-tracked as it is outstanding for a considerable number of years with consequent hardship to homeowners and the business community due to severe flooding. [27643/05]

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (11 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 255: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding funding the outstanding capital debt of a centre (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [27637/05]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (11 Oct 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 262: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will abolish the three-year lifetime capping of community employment scheme participants introduced. [27636/05]