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Order of Business (5 May 2011)

Séamus Healy: Legislation is clearly promised in the programme for Government. Will the Tánaiste not answer the question?

Order of Business (5 May 2011)

Séamus Healy: When will we have transparency?

Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)

Séamus Healy: I would like to put forward some case histories. The first relates to a self-employed man with a family living in a modest three-bedroomed house and into the second half of his mortgage. He was doing well but due to an addition to the family needed a modest four-bedroomed house. Thinking he could deal with the mortgage on the new house, he went to his bank and looked for a mortgage on the...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Séamus Healy: I am sharing my time with Deputy Mick Wallace. We have been told time and again by the Government that it received a strong mandate in the recent general election. It has such a mandate and an overwhelming majority, possibly an unhealthily large one. Surely we should tell the truth in this House, the truth being that the public was sold a pup in the general election. The document we are...

Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (4 May 2011)

Séamus Healy: I request the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss a matter of urgent importance, namely, the need for the Government to intervene with the National Asset Management Agency to save 128 jobs under threat in two viable retail businesses in Counties Tipperary and Kilkenny due to NAMA's dismissive attitude to workers, job protection and job retention. I call on the...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (3 May 2011)

Séamus Healy: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to abolish the universal social charge, introduced by the previous Government, in view of its impact on the income of low and middle income families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6051/11]

Suicide Prevention: Statements (Resumed) (3 May 2011)

Séamus Healy: I congratulate the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health services on her appointment and wish her well in her new office. I agree with previous speakers about the effects suicide has had on families throughout the country. I sympathise with the families and relatives who have been through this experience. Unfortunately, many families have had experience of suicide over the...

Commission of Inquiry into Banking Sector: Statements (20 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: The clear impression given by the Nyberg report and the media in general is that we all lost the run of ourselves and that we were all in it together, but nothing could be further from the truth. We did not all lose the run of ourselves and we were not all in it together. Unfortunately, the report is a whitewash and a cover-up for the Irish Establishment which supported the banking process...

Written Answers — Rural Transport Services: Rural Transport Services (19 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: Question 358: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding to extend the ring-a-link rural link transport service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8128/11]

Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: It appears, in effect, that the Government is supporting this Private Members' motion, part of which states Dáil Éireann "believes that education and training will be a central part in economic recovery and job creation in the months and years ahead". I am wondering how this sits with statements made by Labour Party Ministers in the past couple of days. The Minister for Education and...

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: I am disappointed but not surprised to see this legislation before the House. The legislation was introduced by the previous Government and it has been taken over hook, line and sinker by the new one. I suppose it is in line with what has happened in other areas. There is has been a seamless transition from opposition to Government. It is disappointing that the new Government has taken...

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: We need to recognise that, in this instance at least, the EU is not a good Samaritan coming to the help of a neighbour in trouble. German, French and British banks gambled recklessly and lost but they are now demanding an each way bet. They want the Irish taxpayer to pay for the losses they incurred. That has been the policy of the previous Government and, sadly, it is now being pursued by...

Written Answers — Third Level Institutions: Third Level Institutions (12 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will take immediate action to end the abuses of employment law in universities and other third level institutions, under which postdoctoral researchers are deprived of continuity of employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7587/11]

Health Service Reform (12 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: I congratulate the Minister on his appointment and wish him well. Will the Minister confirm that the hospital reconfiguration programme is parked and that an instruction to this effect has been accepted by the HSE officials? I was disappointed that the Minister did not set out in his reply the detail of the process. When does he envisage that the review process will commence? How will it...

Hospitals Building Programme (12 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: Are we not taking Question No. 54 with that?

Health Service Reform (12 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to his announcement of a review of the general hospital reconfiguration process, the nature of the proposed review; its terms of reference; the persons who will carry out the review; the involvement of all stakeholders including staff, patients, service users and the public; the timescale involved; and if he will make a...

Criminal Justice (Community Service) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: I welcome and support the Bill in particular because of the savings that will arise from the implementation of its provisions. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan has indicated some of the figures involved, with savings of between €4,000 and €27,000 and there is obviously a strong economic argument for the Bill. I wish to focus on prevention as opposed to punishment. I regard social investment as...

Water and Sewerage Schemes (6 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: I congratulate the Minister on his appointment and wish him well in future. I also thank him for responding to the matter I raise, namely, a request to commence and complete at an early date the Fethard regional water supply scheme in south Tipperary. People in the area, whose main settlements are Fethard, Strangan, Mullinahone, Killenaule and their hinterlands, have suffered for years...

Bank Bailout and EU-IMF Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: Like the organisation I represent, the Workers and Unemployed Action Group South Tipperary, I am committed to an alternative Ireland that unites working people, whether public or private sector or Irish or migrant, with the unemployed, social welfare recipients, pensioners and students in a struggle to change society. I favour an end to the bailout of banks and developers and a refusal to...

Bank Bailout and EU-IMF Arrangement: Motion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2011)

Séamus Healy: The guarantee to large investors and bondholders must be revoked and small individual investors in credit unions must be compensated. There must be a default on repayments to international finance houses. The payment of the cíos dubh - €5 billion this year and €9 billion by 2014 as a minimum - is unsustainable and will devastate families, the economy and the country if it continues....