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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (1 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA-sponsored client visits to the IDA land at Ballingarrane, Clonmel in 2023 and 2024; the steps the IDA will take to find an enterprise for the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21941/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (1 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: This question relates to the IDA-owned site at Ballingarrane in Clonmel. Will the Minister outline the number of IDA-sponsored client visits to that site at Clonmel in 2023 and 2024? What steps will the IDA take to find an enterprise for the site?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (1 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Ballingarrane estate was purchased in 2001 by South Tipperary County Council, in what was a far-seeing decision, to provide a vital piece of infrastructure for industrial development, not just for Clonmel and south Tipperary, but also for the surrounding areas of west Waterford, east Limerick and west Kilkenny. It comprises 270 acres, 50 acres of which are owned by the IDA, as the Minister...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (1 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I remind the Minister that south Tipperary is not in the mid-west region. The IDA must ramp up its marketing of the Ballingarrane site. I am not satisfied that it has done enough. It must do more. I ask the Minister to intervene with the IDA to ramp up that marketing. There are some very successful industries in the area, including flagship industries, such as Abbott Vascular and Boston...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: Any national planning framework will be a failure unless it is underpinned by real and serious consultation with communities and community representatives at local level in a bottom-up approach. Communities must have the opportunity to make representations to statutory, elected democratic bodies to ensure their voices are heard. The only way this will be achieved is by re-establishing local...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: The question of disability services for children with additional needs is now a very significant national issue. It is second only to the housing emergency. The State is failing these children every day. Over 14,000 are waiting for an assessment of need, which is in breach of the law. Some 41,000 are waiting for therapy services and well over 100 are waiting for school places. If we are...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this very important debate on Children's Health Ireland. First, I want to acknowledge the 4,000 staff in the group who do outstanding work on a daily basis. However, the organisation itself is dysfunctional, it is in crisis, and it has experienced a litany of failures. This has led to a series of reviews and reports. The most recent HIQA...

Uisce Éireann: Statements (10 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: Irish Water should be abolished. Of course, it should never have been established. It is not fit for purpose and it is hiding from the public. It has no public offices. It refuses to meet elected representatives in open, democratic forums like county council meetings. Consumers cannot meet any Irish Water official face to face. People can report a problem to a call centre. They may get...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: Before I start, a Cheann Comhairle, you might allow me to congratulate Tina Marie Barrett on securing a school place for her child, Michael Joseph, for this coming September. Following 16 rejection letters and the matter being raised here a number of times, he has secured a place.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: Thank you. There is a serious shortage of bus drivers in this country, yet we continue to insist on an ageist policy on this issue. Drivers over 70 years of age are not allowed to drive school buses, yet these same drivers can drive a bus to the school, pick up students and take them to a football match, a swimming lesson or a school tour. The policy makes no sense. Age is no barrier...

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: As a founding member of the Right2Water campaign, I strongly support this Bill, the aim of which is to scrap any prospect of the reintroduction of water charges. I am proud of all those who protested against water charges in every town and city across the country in a magnificent display of people power. Residents who stood against the installation of water meters and in front of diggers...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: I am sure the Tánaiste will agree it is essential that the ambulance service should be staffed, funded and equipped properly and operate from bases that are fit for purpose. A new base is urgently required at Tipperary University Hospital in Clonmel. The existing base is a 25-year-old prefabricated building built to cater for ten all-male staff. There are now 22 staff using the base...

Diverting Young People from Criminal Activity: Statements (2 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: The key to addressing the diversion of young people from criminality is the provision of services right across the whole spectrum including education, health, community, and recreation services and, of course, employment. Those services must be properly funded and staffed. As others have said, this is not cheap but society gets back in spades what it gives in funding for these services....

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: The Government's response and amendment, while not unexpected, are nonetheless hugely disappointing, and even shocking, because there is absolutely no acceptance of the depth and breadth of what is an intolerable housing emergency. This emergency started with the privatisation of the local authority house building programme by a Fianna Fáil Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, back in the early...

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — a housing emergency exists in the State; and — housing is a human right as enshrined in Article 25 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights; further notes that: — 15,286 homeless people, including 4,603 children, were in emergency accommodation in January 2025; — the typical listed...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Séamus Healy: The role of the Ceann Comhairle is to be the impartial Chairperson of the Dáil and to carry out that role with the confidence and trust of both Government and Opposition Deputies. The independence of the office was further emphasised in 2016 when a decision was made that the post would be filled by a secret ballot of TDs. However, in 2024, the independence and impartiality of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: When is the Government going to stop failing children with additional needs? Over 14,000 children are waiting for a needs assessment and 41,000 children are waiting for therapies, including speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy. Hundreds of children have no school place for next September. Day and residential services for children transitioning to adulthood...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: That is a live horse and you will get grass answer. It is an all talk and not enough action answer. The Minister has not answered the two questions I asked. When will these children get school places? When will the Government stop breaking the law? On Monday last the Minister for Education said she would use legislation to force schools to open special classes, which gave the clear...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: The Minister did not answer the questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2025)

Séamus Healy: No, he did not answer the questions and he is being glib.