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Unemployment Levels. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: Eight years later the town still has the same number unemployed.

Unemployment Levels. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: Is the Minister not aware that Carrick-on-Suir already has strengths? It is on the N24 and is within 15 miles of Waterford city and its airport. It is a fine town. It is tenable to demand that jobs be created in Carrick-on-Suir for at least some of the 960 people who have been unemployed there for the past ten years. There are more people unemployed in the town today than there were when this...

Unemployment Levels. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: We want Government action.

Unemployment Levels. (28 Sep 2005)

Séamus Healy: There are 960 people out of work.

Written Answers — Liquor Licensing Laws: Liquor Licensing Laws (21 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 505: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the controls he intends to introduce to control the proliferation of off-licences; the further controls he intends to introduce to prohibit access by underage young persons to alcohol from off-licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21130/05]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (21 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 506: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will consider grant aiding an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21131/05]

Written Answers — Closed Circuit Television Systems: Closed Circuit Television Systems (21 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 507: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the installation of closed circuit television cameras for the towns of Clonmel, Carrick-on-Suir and Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21137/05]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (21 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 531: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the appointment of a special needs teacher to schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20728/05]

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion (Resumed). (15 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: The last paragraph of this motion calls on the Government to provide the necessary resources and direction to the Garda to ensure that existing legislation is enforced and public disorder related to so-called superpubs is tackled consistently. At 2 a.m. in every village, town and city during weekends thousands of young people with nowhere to go spill on to the streets from these pubs and...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (15 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of urgent importance, namely the fact the south-east region has consistently lagged behind, and continues to do so, in regard to investment and job creation with the result that Carrick-on-Suir has over 20% unemployment, to allow the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to make a statement on the matter and...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (14 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 696: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be approved for the operation of a school (details supplied) attached to the Central Technical Institute, Clonmel; when the necessary additional teaching staff will be approved to allow the coláiste to progress to its second year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19165/05]

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (14 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 697: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the application by south Tipperary VEC for a person to be based in Fethard, County Tipperary, under the grant scheme for special projects for youth 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19166/05]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (14 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 698: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will restore the supernumerary allocation of 2.5 posts to south Tipperary VEC to alleviate the difficulty arising from the closure of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19167/05]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (14 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of urgent national importance, namely, the rip-off of PAYE taxpayers by the cynical reduction of the amount of refuse charge payment allowable against income tax to €195 per annum when refuse charges now run at an average of €350 per annum and to allow the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the urgent need to suspend the process of ratification of the EU constitution given its rejection by French and Dutch voters in recent referenda and the stated objections to the process by Britain and the Czech Republic.

Driver Testing and Standards Authority Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: I am looking at the notice taken from the relevant website indicating the pass rates and waiting times at the various driver testing centres. There is a huge variation among the 48 centres. In my own county of Tipperary there is a pass rate of 51% and a waiting time of 53 weeks in Clonmel. There is a pass rate of 53% and a waiting time of 59 weeks in Nenagh. If I cross the border to the...

Requests to Move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (1 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely the urgent need for the Government to implement the Carers Association's national strategy for carers. Some 150,000 carers currently work more than 3 million hours each week, resulting in savings to the Exchequer of up to €2 billion annually.

Job Creation. (31 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and intends to take to address the serious unemployment levels in Carrick-on-Suir; the steps which have been taken by the industrial agencies to bring industry to the town, including the number of site visits to the town by these agencies for prospective industrialists; and if he will establish a jobs...

Job Creation. (31 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: It appears from the Minister's reply that he can tell us what is happening everywhere except in Carrick-on-Suir. He has told us the position in south Tipperary and in the south east generally. It seems the Minister will not accept that a persistently high level of unemployment in the town of Carrick-on-Suir is serious or indicates a crisis. Since the Government came to power in 1997, an...

Job Creation. (31 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: It has not had an impact.