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Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (23 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: Question 525: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will exempt the post of tenant liaison officer at Carrick-on-Suir Town Council from the public service recruitment embargo and allow the appointment of such an officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19364/06]

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: That environment has not come about overnight but has developed over many years. We have become more conscious of the challenge because oil and gas prices have increased significantly in recent times and have put huge pressures on commerce and economies throughout the world. Oil now costs $70 per barrel and will probably remain at that price or even increase, a prospect which will not be easy...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (18 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: Speaking on this Bill, the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources stated: "This is a key statutory initiative driving forward a progressive energy agenda against a backdrop of a new global energy landscape with increasing demands on fuel resources." According to an explanatory note from the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, the intentions of the...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (18 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for the Government to resource adequately and increase the number of workers delivering youth programmes in Clonmel; the need to grant young people's facilities and services fund status to the town; the need to approve funding for a springboard project for the town and the need to...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (17 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to meet a deputation from Clonmel Borough Council regarding the need for additional gardaí for Clonmel and to discuss action needed to tackle crime, including drug related crime and anti-social behaviour.

National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006 which was published in February. It provides for the establishment, on a statutory basis, of the National Sports Campus Development Authority, and succeeds Campus and Stadium Ireland Development Limited. It will oversee the planning and development of a sports campus at Abbotstown. The Bill sets...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: There has been a surplus of €39 billion since the current Government came into office.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: A surplus of €39 billion.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: However, it is going to the wrong people.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: Big business receives it, not the ordinary man in the street.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: The Deputy is only interested in big corporate billionaires.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (4 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources to withdraw the staff cutbacks imposed by him on regional fisheries boards, including the reduction of 1.5 whole-time equivalents from the Southern Regional Fisheries Board. As these boards already operate on a...

Energy Resources: Motion. (3 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: I support the motion by the Independent Deputies calling on the House and the Government to recognise the fundamental principle that oil and gas reserves within the control of the State belong to the Irish people and that these must be recovered and used in a way that benefits the majority of the people and not just powerful corporate interests, and calling for the immediate scrapping of the...

Energy Resources: Motion. (3 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: The Minister is defending the indefensible.

Energy Resources: Motion. (3 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: For the benefit of corporate interests.

Energy Resources: Motion. (3 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: We are not wrong.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (3 May 2006)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, in view of the fact that this is national pensions week, the need for the Government to stop foreign multinationals, who now own all but ten local newspapers, from undermining the existing defined benefit staff pension schemes and replacing them with defined contribution schemes,...

Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (27 Apr 2006)

Séamus Healy: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on the Bill. This problem has existed since the early 1970s and it has been a shambles since then. Almost every political party in this House has been in power and had responsibility for the Department of Health and Children in that time. Since the late 1980s, the political establishment and the Department were aware that the system for charging...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (27 Apr 2006)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the need to stop the cutbacks in the home help services; the need to extend these services; the need to significantly increase the nursing home subvention payment; the need to provide additional public funds for the elderly and in this regard to provide funding to renovate St....

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed). (26 Apr 2006)

Séamus Healy: I thank Deputy Deenihan for sharing his time with me. As somebody who has worked at the coalface of the health services for 20 years I was angered by some of today's contributions, particularly that of the Minister of State, Deputy Tim O'Malley, who blamed everybody — doctors, nurses, support staff, paramedics, clerical staff — for the mess the health service is in. The majority, if not...