Results 501-520 of 2,918 for speaker:Séamus Healy

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: I am concerned with assessments that have not been commenced. People have been waiting two years.

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: They are being left in limbo.

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: The HSE is deliberately and flagrantly breaking the law by denying children with disabilities their statutory entitlements to assessments of needs. The Disability Act 2005 provides for an assessment of the health and education needs of person with disabilities and provides for services to meet those needs. Section 9(5) provides that the executive shall cause an assessment of applicants to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Eligibility (18 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 166. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when self-employed persons can claim invalidity pensions as announced in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23811/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (10 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 223. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 535 of 7 February 2017, when a reply will issue. [22304/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (9 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 461. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide additional resources to the national bowel screening service to enable it to take the necessary measures to improve the uptake rate; if he will extend the upper age category to 70 to 74 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21905/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (9 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 621. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the review of the roads capital programme; when he will be in a position to confirm the inclusion in the programme of the upgrading of the N24 through County Tipperary, including the Tipperary Town and Carrick on Suir bypasses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21903/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (3 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 259. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an assessment of needs for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21074/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (2 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 94. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the proposed introduction of a new community CCTV scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19556/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Banking Sector Investigations (2 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 214. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will instruct An Garda Síochána to investigate alleged systemic fraud and to question all current and former chief executives of the 15 banks (details supplied); if no consideration of possible damage to the sale value of State-owned banks will deter the Government from insisting on a thorough criminal investigation of this...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (2 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 290. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will recommend that an urgent amendment to the 2013 Act mentioned by a person (details supplied) be undertaken to give the Central Bank all necessary retrospective powers to compel lenders to implement redress and compensation in respect of failures that occurred prior to the 2013 Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20866/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 May 2017)

Séamus Healy: 893. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a referral for a person (details supplied) for ophthalmic surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19571/17]

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Séamus Healy: In the general election of 2016 the electorate democratically decided to abolish water charges and Irish Water in electing 90 Deputies committed to abolition. However, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, the Labour Party, the Green Party and the Endapendents have shamefully rejected the democratically expressed wish of the people. Yesterday Fianna Fáil caved in on water charges, ably assisted...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Séamus Healy: He got a letter from Fine Gael.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Séamus Healy: 231. 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. [17191/17]

Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2017)

Séamus Healy: We are not talking about mortgage distress, as such. We are talking about illegality on the part of the banks leading to mortgage distress and, in many cases, to the repossession of family homes and borrowers losing their properties. We learned from the banking inquiry that the culture permeating the banks was also endemic in the Central Bank and the Department of Finance. There is no...

Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2017)

Séamus Healy: Tracker mortgage fraud by the banks is a huge scandal which requires criminal investigation. These are the same banks that we, the public, bailed out to the tune of billions of euro. Some 17,000 mortgages have been found to be affected thus far and there are more than 2 million accounts being queried and examined. This has the potential to be a €500 million scandal. Mortgage...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (4 Apr 2017)

Séamus Healy: 455. To ask the Minister for Health when children in receipt of domiciliary care allowance will be issued with a full medical card as announced in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16053/17]

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Séamus Healy: The phrase "grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented" comes to mind in respect of this issue. In the wake of scandal after scandal and cover-up after cover-up, systemic malfunction after systemic malfunction and systemic failure after systemic failure, I ask the Tánaiste whether a root and branch reform and restructuring of An Garda Síochána is now urgently needed....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 Mar 2017)

Séamus Healy: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for additional accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13334/17]