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Ambulance Service. (8 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for this opportunity to raise this issue once again. I am calling for the putting in place of an emergency ambulance service for Carrick-on-Suir. I have lost count of the number of times I have raised this issue during the course of this Dáil with the current Minister and her predecessors. I appeal to the Minister to at last approve what would be a life-saving...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (8 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill because I am not happy with it. It arises from the November 2006 Supreme Court judgment which struck down the necessity for an Independent candidate to present 30 assentors to his or her nomination at a central location. That system replaced the deposit system which was a deliberate attempt by the Government to make it more difficult for...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (8 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: Many who did not return their form owing to reasons of sickness or illiteracy will find that their names are no longer on the register and that they cannot vote. The matter of the supplementary register was raised with the Minister. It is difficult to have one's name included in the supplementary register, as this can only be done by having one's application certified at a Garda station. In...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (8 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: It would not.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (8 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of urgent national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Education and Science to implement the commitment in the programme for Government to radically reduce primary school class sizes and to ensure that no child of eight years of age or younger will be in a class of more than 20, having regard to the...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (7 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: I wish to request the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a specific matter requiring urgent attention, namely, the need for the immediate location of an emergency ambulance service for the town of Carrick-on-Suir, as the existing service being provided from Waterford and Clonmel is unable to meet acceptable response times, thereby placing the lives of heart attack...

Written Answers — Heritage Sites: Heritage Sites (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: Question 229: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that the Swiss Cottage, Cahir, County Tipperary opens as scheduled on 8 March 2007 and continues to remain open as usual for the remainder of the season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8627/07]

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he has taken in view of the continued unprecedented unemployment levels affecting the town of Carrick-on-Suir (details supplied) since his appointment to address this unacceptable situation; the action he will take; the number of site visits to the town in 2006 organised by the various industrial promotion...

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: Is the Minister for real? Is he not aware that 890 persons in Carrick-on-Suir are signing on the live register, and this has probably been a consistent figure over the past ten years? The figure reached a maximum of approximately 950 but has hovered around the 900 mark for about ten years. This represents approximately 25% unemployment in the town. Would the Minister accept that his...

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: I asked if the Minister would accept there is a long-term and unacceptably high level of unemployment in Carrick-on-Suir, and whether a jobs task force consisting of high-profile heavy hitters is necessary to do something for employment in the town. I plead with the Minister to set up such a jobs task force because the town has done its part over the last number of years. It has become...

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: There are nearly 900 people unemployed, that is the reality.

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: It is the reality.

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: There is 25% unemployment in the town.

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: Is it not true that the Minister's comments have condemned Carrick-on-Suir to becoming a dormitory town with high levels of unemployment into the future? Is it not true that the working groups referred to by the Minister have been unsuccessful over the past number of years? Unemployment is unacceptably and stubbornly high in Carrick-on-Suir, so does this mean this Government, in office for...

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: They have not been successful.

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: There are 890 unemployed in a population of 5,000.

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: We are talking about Carrick-on-Suir, not the south east.

Unemployment Levels. (6 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: The Minister is talking about everywhere but Carrick-on-Suir.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (1 Mar 2007)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Parlon, to reverse the decision to close Swiss Cottage, Cahir, County Tipperary, to the public for the coming tourism season and to provide immediately alternative, temporary access, which is available. Swiss Cottage is a...

Domestic Violence: Motion (Resumed). (28 Feb 2007)

Séamus Healy: I support the motion and compliment Sinn Féin Deputies on tabling it. I have a particular interest in the area of domestic violence, having been associated with a service for victims of domestic violence since the early 1990s. While mayor of Clonmel, I became a patron of Cuan Saor, the main organisation providing services for victims of domestic violence in south Tipperary. I have been...