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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (5 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: Since 2011, up to 200 high net worth individuals, in other words wealthy and powerful people in society, including many household names, have been involved in a tax scam allowing them to avoid paying up to €500 million in tax. This involves the transfer of valuable rights attaching to shares in a company to shares owned by its members. I ask the Minister to put a stop to this once...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (5 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: I am simply not happy with the Minister's reply. My question relates to the future. We understand that this matter has been before the courts. The Circuit Court has found in favour of the Revenue Commissioners but we are aware that there is an appeal pending. We obviously cannot interfere with what happens in the courts but what happens in the future is not a matter for the courts; it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (5 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: Again, what I am referring to is the future. It is a matter for the Government to ensure that the activity in question is precluded in the future. The Minister referred to budgets in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Issues arose in those budgets since the profits of banks are now not taxable until 2047. The question of the taxing of vulture funds was addressed in those budgets. This matter needs to...

Waste Disposal: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: I was a member of Clonmel Corporation when the authority introduced domestic waste charges at £5 per year. I opposed the charge on the basis that it was the thin end of the wedge and it would lead to charges of £300 or £400 per family. I also argued the waiver scheme for low-income families and those with health problems would be abolished over time. I stated that as sure as...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (4 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: 310. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the names and positions of those who attended a meeting between the National Monuments Service and officials of Tipperary County Council on 13 June 2017; the location in which the meeting was held; the duration of the meeting; the items on the agenda; the correspondence and documents that were provided to attendees; if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Jul 2017)

Séamus Healy: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the shortage of the BCG vaccine here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30977/17]

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the publication of this Bill and the opportunity to speak on it because it is an important issue of significant public interest and should not and must not be rushed or railroaded through the Oireachtas. As we all know, rushed law is frequently bad law. Adequate time must be given to proper scrutiny and examination of the proposed legislation at each stage of the process. While I...

Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2017)

Séamus Healy: I support the Bill and commend Deputy Cassells for bringing it forward. There is no doubt that the abolition of borough and town councils in 2014 by the then Minister, Phil Hogan, and the Labour Party was a black day for democracy. Eighty borough and town councils were abolished in that year. In my own county of Tipperary, seven councils were abolished at the stroke of a pen with the...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 Jun 2017)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Tánaiste.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 Jun 2017)

Séamus Healy: I was there as well.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 Jun 2017)

Séamus Healy: Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Accommodation Provision (20 Jun 2017)

Séamus Healy: 6 o’clock This reply is desperately disappointing and unacceptable. It is effectively kicking the can down the road to the Estimates of 2018, which means there will be no movement on this until 2018 at the very earliest. It is condemning patients to life on trolleys in huge numbers over the next autumn-winter period. A trolley bay of 11 has been provided and while it is helpful...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Accommodation Provision (20 Jun 2017)

Séamus Healy: There is a huge bed capacity deficiency at South Tipperary General Hospital. Put very simply, there are not enough beds to cater for the demand for services at the hospital. This has been accepted in recent years by local hospital management, HSE regional management and the management of the south-south west hospital group of which South Tipperary General Hospital is part. The preferred...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Services Infrastructure (20 Jun 2017)

Séamus Healy: 2210. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will expedite the making of an agreement in view of the fact that there is no national agreement between Irish Water and local authorities for the taking in charge of water services infrastructure and that the lack of such a national agreement is delaying the taking in charge process of numerous housing...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Séamus Healy: The cruel capitalist extremist policies of recent governments have devastated Irish society, have devastated low and middle-income families, have created poverty for families and children and have facilitated evictions from family homes. Of course, they have left the country with a chaotic health service and a housing and homeless crisis. In the very short time available to me I want to...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Séamus Healy: Recent Governments drawn from Fianna Fáil, the Green Party, Fine Gael, the Labour Party and now Fine Gael and the Independent Alliance are often rightly described as neo-liberal. While it is correct, it can sometimes be confused by the general public as meaning they are tolerant of different views. The truth is that neo-liberalism is a deliberate policy of supporting the rich and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (30 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding the review of the new tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25522/17]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: I welcome this debate and confirm my support for the motion. I thank Independents 4 Change, and Deputy Connolly in particular, for bringing forward the motion and I commend them on it. I fully support the motion, in particular the call for a root-and-branch review not just of the criteria and policies of Caranua but also its operation. Based on what we know of the conduct of Caranua and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (24 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 188. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when disability allowance payment will commence for a person (details supplied) who has been approved on appeal from April 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24911/17]

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach has not answered the question. The HSE, which is a State agency, is breaking the law. I asked the Taoiseach if he condones that and if he will ensure that does not happen in the future. Unfortunately, since this Government has come to power and Deputy Finian McGrath has taken responsibility for the issue, the position has disimproved. We have gone from a situation where...