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Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: It is an absolute disgrace that a situation where 25% of the population of a town is unemployed and a factory has just closed is not a matter for consideration in this House.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Carrick-on-Suir has been felled by the news that 53 jobs will be lost to the town as a result of the closure of SRAM Ireland. This is a bad blow, particularly as the town already has an unemployment rate of more than 20%, with 890 people on the live register. Carrick-on-Suir is one of six blackspots in the south east identified by the South East Regional Authority. The town's circumstances...

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Nothing has happened since the Minister met a deputation from Carrick-on-Suir last year.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Nearly everyone from Carrick-on-Suir with a job is employed outside the town. We need employment in the town.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Carrick-on-Suir has the same number of unemployed today as it had 12 months ago. It had no effect.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: What about Carrick-on-Suir?

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Is it true that the same number of people are unemployed in Carrick-on-Suir today as 12 months ago?

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: It is a pity he will not tell us the truth.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: That he will do nothing for Carrick-on-Suir. It is the same reply I received four months ago.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Decentralisation, Minister.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: It requires a high-level jobs taskforce because this is a specific case.

Job Creation. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: The Minister will do nothing for Carrick-on-Suir. It is the same reply I received four months ago.

Social Services Inspectorate: Motion (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: It is important to make the point, in view of some of the contributions to this debate, that everybody across the political divide is anxious to see our elderly live out their lives at home in their communities and availing of day care centres and sheltered housing. It is only in a situation where they are no longer able to avail of those services that the nursing home option is considered....

Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Does the Taoiseach accept the need for the establishment of a jobs task force for towns such as Carrick-on-Suir?

Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: It arises under No. 46 on the legislative programme, namely, the industrial development amendment Bill.

Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

Séamus Healy: Does the Taoiseach agree that a jobs task force should be established for Carrick-on-Suir, which has an ongoing unemployment rate of 20%? There is another factory closure today, resulting in 53 job losses.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (1 Feb 2006)

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 allocation of funds to provide a quality hospital system for south Tipperary by opening the units costing €40 million and lying idle for approximately three years at Cashel and Clonmel and by relocating the general surgical services at south Tipperary General...

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

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of urgent local and national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to remove the cap which is destroying community employment schemes and depriving local communities, towns and villages of necessary community services, and to ask the Minister to make a statement on the matter.

Social Welfare Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Dec 2005)

Séamus Healy: I am delighted to have a few minutes to speak on this Bill. I welcome the increases in benefit that have been announced. However, when one looks at the situation and pulls back the veil of hype, one finds that the increases are not enough even to begin the reversal of the profoundly unequal society the Government has created over the past nine years. The gap between rich and poor has widened...

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Dec 2005)

Séamus Healy: I thank Deputy Breeda Moynihan-Cronin and the Minister of State for sharing time. It is appropriate that we sympathise again with the families in the Kilmore Quay area who have suffered so grievously over recent weeks. I thank the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the Naval Service, the local community and other individuals involved in the search in recent weeks. The tragedy demonstrates...