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Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 37: In page 11, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: "(c) charges or impositions on any scheme or financial instrument or private pension plan proposed in this Bill may not be passed down to contributors to such schemes, private pension plan or instruments.",".

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: Yes.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: I want to make a few brief points in the two minutes I have left. This Bill does not provide for the additional staffing that is needed so that a proper social welfare service can be made available to the public. I am sure the Minister is aware that it is taking an average of 20 weeks to process social welfare applications. It takes 20 weeks for an application for carer's allowance to be...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: I am delighted to have an opportunity to say a few words on this Bill. I want to record my opposition to its guillotining today at 7 p.m. We have been told this is because of the diktat from the EU and the IMF but it is much more in line with the current Government's takeover, hook, line and sinker, of the policies and methods of operation of the previous Government. I remind the...

Tax Code (7 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the recovery in net financial asset values by €27.3 billion in 2009 (details supplied), if he will propose that the net financial assets of households with net financial assets above €2.3 million having incomes above €100,000 per annum be taxed in budget 2012 to avoid further impositions on low and middle income households and...

Tax Code (7 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: The net financial assets of wealthy people increased by 27.3% between 2008 and 2009 and are likely to increase again in 2010 and 2011. These are personal rather than business, commercial, building or housing assets and are net. I believe people with such assets who are on significant incomes should pay their fair share of taxation. They are not doing so now. I believe it is time super...

Tax Code (7 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: The Minister referred to those domiciled elsewhere. Surely it is time Irish taxation should be on the basis of citizenship, as it is in the United States, which is where United States citizens in Ireland are paying tax. The Minister's former colleague and former Minister, Mr. Richie Ryan, introduced an asset tax in this country. Does the Minister not believe very wealthy people should show...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dail under Standing Order 32 (2 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: A Cheann Comhairle, I understood it was I, not Deputy Healy-Rae, who was tabled to request an adjournment under Standing Order 32. I submitted my request last night.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dail under Standing Order 32 (2 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: It concerns the closure of 400 post offices by An Post.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dail under Standing Order 32 (2 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: I have a copy of the notification.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dail under Standing Order 32 (2 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the policy of An Post to close 400 post offices, including the announcement yesterday of the impending closure of Bansha post office, County Tipperary, thus withdrawing a vital public service from the local community, especially the elderly who are dependent on the post office for...

Order of Business (2 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: When does the Government expect to bring before the House amendments to the Freedom of Information Act to ensure that the secret operations of NAMA will be made more transparent?

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: I wish to share time with Deputies Catherine Murphy and Maureen O'Sullivan.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill. I believe the purpose of this Bill and this Department is to fundamentally undermine the public service, destroy jobs and undermine the availability and the provision of public services to the general public. That process started under the previous Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government and is now being...

Government and Oireachtas Reform: Motion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: He is blamed for everything.

Government and Oireachtas Reform: Motion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: We beat him in Clonmel in 1650.

Government and Oireachtas Reform: Motion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: The fundamental issue in regard to reform is the accountability of politicians and the political system to the electorate. We need to put an end to the tactics pursued in the last election. Two parties, Fine Gael and the Labour Party, were elected to Government on a platform which asserted the bailout was not acceptable and would have to be renegotiated. One of the words used was...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (1 Jun 2011)

Séamus Healy: I wish to request the adjournment of the Dail under Standing Order 32 to debate a specific matter of public importance requiring urgent consideration, namely, the need for the Minister for Education and Skills to reverse the adjacent and non-adjacent mileage requirements for higher education grants introduced in the budget for 2011 by Fianna Fáil and the Green Party as the serious reductions...

Criminal Justice Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2011)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. There is one law for the rich and another for the poor. For as long as I can remember that has been a fact as well as a perception. A poor person will be put behind bars for shoplifting to feed his or her family, whereas someone who does away with €1 million or €1 billion can look forward to escaping justice and enjoying a...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (resumed) (25 May 2011)

Séamus Healy: With the permission of the House I will share time with Deputies Tom Fleming, Stephen Donnelly and Clare Daly. The performance of our colleague, Deputy Buttimer, is more reminiscent of the stage of the Abbey Theatre than of this House. He told us this was a brave and courageous initiative. I am sure he knows, because his Minister has already said it, that this is a very modest proposal. In...