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Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: I will conclude on this point.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: I had only started. In respect of remedial works on septic tanks, rural dwellers have already paid towards the cost of municipal system upgrading and should not be asked to pay a second time. This work should be done by the State, which would help to create jobs and thus save money in making social welfare payments.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: I am disappointed with the Minister's response. It is obvious he is wedded to the current position and will not clarify the standards that are required. That is unacceptable. It is reasonable and common sense that before Members of this House vote on any legislation we should know exactly what it contains. It is reasonable and common sense that the members of the public who are affected...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: It bears repeating what several Members have said, that everybody agrees pollution must be tackled to ensure clean drinking water for every household in the country. There is no dispute about that. However, there is a view out there, fuelled by this legislation, that our drinking water is, if not the worst in the world, then certainly the worst in Europe. In that context, it is important to...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: The EPA stated they were only a minor source.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: On a point of order, Deputy Michelle Mulherin said Deputy Mattie McGrath was not in the Chamber. He was responding to let her know he was here. That could not be out of order-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: Yes.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: Deputy Mattie McGrath was simply correcting Deputy Michelle Mulherin.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: It would be more in Deputy Tom Hayes's line to look after the barracks in Clonmel.

Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: More and more people are coming to the view that austerity is not working. Even those who support the economic system we operate in are coming to that view and are expressing it forcefully. Before we came into the Chamber this evening the IMF - that bastion of the capitalist system - said there are very serious dangers in forcing countries to pay down debt too quickly. It also said there...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. The Bill arises from the striking down of the joint labour committee, JLC, and employment regulation order, ERO, legislation by the courts. It had been hoped that the Bill would have been introduced earlier than this but it is before the House now and I intend to oppose it. The effect of the Bill is a decision by the Government to cut the...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: They are in low paid employment.

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the debate. Agency work is a form of casualisation of employment and it has been used traditionally as a method to undermine wages and conditions of employment for full-time and permanent employees. My preference would be for agency work to be outlawed and normal employment practices and procedures to be used. However, we have what we have...

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: Will Deputy Barry vote against the Government?

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: He sounds as if he was speaking against the motion.

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: Will he vote against the Government?

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: It is all talk, is it not?

Private Members' Business. School Guidance Counsellors: Motion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Séamus Healy: In the few minutes available to me I wish to record my appreciation and thanks to the guidance counsellors and teachers, throughout the country and particularly in my own constituency, for the work they do for young people. My own children benefitted from the services of guidance teachers and many of my own family are involved in the education system. While I welcome the Minister of State,...

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2011)

Séamus Healy: From listening to some of the contributions from the Government side and this, one would believe the IMF was some kind of charitable Good Samaritan organisation helping out countries in economic trouble for the good of its health. It is very far from that. The IMF has created havoc across the world and has never acted with fairness. It is not even a democratic organisation. The claim this...

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2011)

Séamus Healy: The fiction that this amending legislation will make the IMF more democratic has no foundation. It is suggested this organisation is neutral which, again, could not be further from the truth. It is certainly not neutral in the policies which it pursues which discriminate against middle and lower income people and poor countries while supporting wealthy nations and sectors of society such as...