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Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)

Séamus Healy: Fianna Fáil is responsible for it as well. Its hand prints are all over it.

Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)

Séamus Healy: In the very short time available to me, I will concentrate on primary education. Young people get one chance at primary education. They can re-sit their leaving certificate and do secondary education as part of a second chance programme or as a mature student. Third level is similar but they get only one chance at primary education. That is why it is vitally important that students get a...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Séamus Healy: In his Budget Statement, the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, told us the budget will create a fairer society. This is dishonest claptrap. The budget maintains and widens the rich-poor gap in our society. Under the tax and the universal social charge changes alone, the wealthiest 5% of people in our society, those on average incomes of €186,000 a year, will get a €15 per week...

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion and to indicate my support for it. A Vision for Change, launched in 2006, was a template for a community-based, progressive and modern mental health care system. Today, ten years later, there is a crisis in our mental health services arising from, and compounded by, the failure to implement the policy set out in A Vision for Change. The...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Séamus Healy: I will be supporting this motion, indeed, I have signed it. People power strikes fear into the heart of the establishment. That is what has been happening over recent years through the Right2Water and Right2Change protests. Hundreds of thousands of people have protested locally and nationally over two years. They have brought about circumstances in which three out of every four people are...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2016)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Road Traffic Bill 2016 and I welcome most of its provisions. The purpose of the legislation is to improve safety on our roads and reduce fatalities and injuries to road users by introducing several measures. They are the detection of drug driving via mandatory testing; the creation of new offences for driving or being in charge of a vehicle under...

Pharmacy Fees: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2016)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the Private Members' motion and the debate on the issue of overcharging of pharmacy fees by a large pharmacy chain. It is a very disturbing development and it would appear very senior people in this large pharmacy chain set out to overcharge the taxpayer. I want to ask the Minister a number of questions. First, has this matter been referred to An Garda Síochána for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (27 Sep 2016)

Séamus Healy: 319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when funding for a demountable will be made available in respect of persons (details supplied). [26482/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Sep 2016)

Séamus Healy: 1403. 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. [25963/16]

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Séamus Healy: I will vote against the Government's proposals on this issue. Mr. Martin Shanahan, the chief executive officer of IDA Ireland, stated in a recent radio interview that the ruling "does not call into question Ireland's tax regime and does not call into question Ireland's 12.5% tax rate". The European Commissioner, Mr. Phil Hogan, subsequently agreed with Mr. Shanahan. Both Mr. Hogan and Mr....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Relief Availability (21 Jul 2016)

Séamus Healy: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax breaks and or incentives, if any, available to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23742/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Closures (21 Jul 2016)

Séamus Healy: 857. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the grants, if any, that were paid to a company (details supplied); if any grants have been repaid; the grants that remain unpaid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23743/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Closures (21 Jul 2016)

Séamus Healy: 858. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost of the liquidation process at a company (details supplied) and the details of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23744/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (19 Jul 2016)

Séamus Healy: 452. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a company (details supplied) regarding redundancy repayments; when redundancy payments will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22595/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (19 Jul 2016)

Séamus Healy: 662. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed development of the Jigsaw programme in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22598/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Closures (19 Jul 2016)

Séamus Healy: 888. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to clarify the status of the closure of a company (details supplied) and in particular the reason the parent company appears to absolve itself from its responsibility to make redundancy payments to the workforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22596/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: Even the Irish Congress of Trade Unions-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: To clarify, is the Ceann Comhairle telling us that the Government is prepared to defer the renewal of this legislation until after the debate in the House?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: Then what are you telling us? A debate in a week's time or a fortnight's time is of very little value if the legislation is already extended, if young teachers, gardaí and nurses cannot even pay for their rental accommodation-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: -----and if we still have a two-tier pay structure in those professions.