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Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: I refer the Minister to previous Ministers for Finance and to a former Minister, Richie Ryan. He was a Fine Gael Minister for Finance and he introduced a wealth tax which was abolished afterwards by Fianna Fáil. If that wealth tax was in place now at the rate of 2% as at the time, it would be bringing in €5 billion per year. It is not unrealistic and it is most reasonable to suggest to...

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: -----would fund real job creation. It would also take the weight of austerity and the recession off the backs of ordinary people.

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: It is outrageous that ten minutes into this debate there is still no Minister present in the Chamber. While I accept someone could be delayed for a few minutes, ten minutes into a debate appears to be a deliberate affront to the Opposition and community and voluntary sector, the subject of this Private Members' motion. I compliment Sinn Féin's extensive motion that goes to the heart of the...

EU Summits: Statements (12 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: There are a number of things we know. The first is that there is now, if we did not know previously, a national and Europe-wide economic and social emergency. We know that the behaviour and treachery of the previous Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government has led to huge attacks on lower-income families and poor people generally in this State, and we know now that through the EU-IMF deal we...

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (11 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: Question 466: To ask the Minister for Health if the special delivery unit has presented its report into the Mid West Regional Hospital, Limerick, to him; and if he will put this report into the public domain. [28316/11]

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (11 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: Question 475: To ask the Minister for Health if the special delivery unit has presented its report on the Mid Western Regional Hospital, Limerick; and if he will place that report into the public domain. [28357/11]

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: The programme for Government promised to prioritise legislation to deal with the issue of transparency in that highly secretive organisation, the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, which is now apparently paying huge amounts of money to the developers who got this country into huge trouble. Is there no priority for that legislation? When will it be introduced?

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: The legislation to introduce transparency in NAMA.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: Absolutely. It is a highly secretive organisation, as you know well.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: I asked him about this on a number of occasions in the last session.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: It is listed.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: It is No. 116 in section C. The Tánaiste told me a number of times previously that the Freedom of Information Act would be extended to cover NAMA. Is it not now a priority?

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: Will it deal with the promise made in the programme for Government?

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: Will it deal with it? It is included in the programme for Government.

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: It is included in the programme for Government and the Tánaiste spoke about it previously. Is it now not the position of the Government to introduce transparency in NAMA?

Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: When will it be introduced?

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: More than 30,000 jobs have been lost since the Government came to power.

Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: What about the Minister of State who said it was crass stupidity to close the barracks in Mullingar?

Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: We will stop Fine Gael as well.

Closure of Army Barracks: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Séamus Healy: No. We stopped Fianna Fáil in 1998 and we will stop Fine Gael in 2011.