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Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

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

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: Young people are going to lose hundreds of thousands of euro across their years of service. Can we have clarification that the Government is prepared to defer the renewal of the legislation until after the debate?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: We are entitled to debate and vote on this legislation today.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: We are entitled to one on the issue.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: Surely the Minister is not telling us that the Government will extend this emergency legislation - this draconian, anti-trade union legislation - that introduced swingeing cuts to pay, pensions and conditions of employment of public servants without a debate in this House. I thought we were supposed to have new politics in this Chamber. This is old politics. This is the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Deposit Guarantee Scheme (23 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will recommend that small shareholders be compensated by the State, at least to the extent of the entitlement of depositors under the bank deposit guarantee scheme, given the conviction of two former executives of Anglo-Irish Bank on a charge of conspiring to defraud investors, that Government and his Department, the office of the regulator and the...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: I welcome any increase in the justice budget, particularly an increase that goes to the Garda Síochána. However, there is serious discontent on a number of fronts within the force, not least within the area of pay and conditions of employment for members of the gardaí and for industrial relations generally. The swingeing cuts of the past number of years to pay and conditions...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Private Members' motion. I support the motion tabled by the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit and also support the amendment in the name of the Independents 4 Change which calls for a commission of investigation to examine the waste industry and to explore the potential for local authorities to re-enter the waste collection services. ...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: -----will simply not be able to bear and are not able to bear now. These waste collection firms have used this pay-by-weight system and the privatisation of the services to ensure they have gouged the public and ordinary families. Families with young children, who by necessity produce a lot of waste, are particularly disadvantaged by the whole pay-by-weight system and so too are elderly...

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (16 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: I thank Deputy Connolly for sharing her time with me. I want to specifically address the situation at South Tipperary General Hospital and I appeal to the Minister to give it the urgent and immediate support that it needs. I invite him to visit it to see the excellent work that is going on there. I have raised this issue repeatedly since this Thirty-second Dáil was convened a short...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (16 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: 108. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will recommend that small shareholders be compensated at least to the extent of the entitlement of depositors under the bank deposit guarantee scheme given the conviction of two former executives of Anglo Irish Bank on a charge of conspiring to defraud investors, the fact that the office of the financial regulator was aware of the relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (14 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: 175. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will insist that a bank and its subsidiary (details supplied) which are in majority State ownership desist from seeking repossession of family homes through the courts and withdraw all such existing applications before the courts; and in the event of the bank and its subsidiary refusing to comply, if he will call a special general meeting of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Disciplinary Proceedings (8 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: 86. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding an eviction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14291/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Home Repossessions (8 Jun 2016)

Séamus Healy: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a repossession. [14295/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (26 May 2016)

Séamus Healy: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for an extension by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12336/16]

Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Séamus Healy: First, I am delighted to support this motion. It is a subject on which Members have been campaigning for a number of years and the Right2Water campaign and the Right2Change movement have created the biggest change ever in this Chamber as a result of the last general election. The issue relating to water and water charges was a lightning rod for austerity of all kinds. It was the straw that...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion (Resumed) (25 May 2016)

Séamus Healy: The final point I wish to make is that after 42 years, three all-party Dáil motions and the Barron and McEntee reports, the British Government still refuses to make files and papers available. It has also refused to allow an independent international judicial figure to consider the files. At this stage, the families are entitled to know the truth and have answers and justice. The...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion (25 May 2016)

Séamus Healy: I welcome Justice for the Forgotten and representatives of bereaved families to the Gallery and thank them for keeping this issue to the fore and being so tenacious in raising it over recent years. As other speakers have said, it is now 42 years since the horrendous bombings of Dublin and Monaghan in which 34 people died and 300 were injured. There were three bombs in Dublin and one in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance Funding (24 May 2016)

Séamus Healy: 604. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the necessity for urgent repairs to the bridge at Ardfinnan in Clonmel, County Tipperary; if he will provide funds to carry out the work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11605/16]