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Report of Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform: Motion (Resumed) (19 May 2016)

Séamus Healy: I thank Deputy Pringle for sharing time with me. This Dáil reform document is effectively a product of the changed landscape resulting from the general election and particularly of what I would call the "people power" we witnessed over recent years, primarily the Right2Water protests that have taken place. The protests have changed the landscape of politics. In mentioning that, it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 May 2016)

Séamus Healy: 897. To ask the Minister for Health the current position regarding the shortage of the BCG vaccine in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10452/16]

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Séamus Healy: From what we have seen of it, the programme for Government makes it quite clear that what we have here is more of the same - more of what has gone on for the last eight or nine years. It was started by the Fianna Fáil-Green Government and continued by the Fine Gael-Labour Government, which was effectively the same. The document itself is vague, aspirational and uncosted. It is quite...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)

Séamus Healy: I am sharing time with Deputy Catherine Connolly. This Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and possibly Independent programme for Government is framed in the context of and is based on "our commitment to meeting in full the domestic and EU Fiscal rules".

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)

Séamus Healy: I will say that again. This programme is based, as it says in the document, "on our commitment to meeting in full the domestic and EU Fiscal rules". The programme for Government is, therefore, based on the fiscal treaty, which totally concedes Irish sovereignty over vital national affairs and flies in the face of the 1916 Proclamation in its centenary year. This programme for Government...

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Séamus Healy: I stood in the recent general election as a Right2Water and Right2Change candidate and have been involved in the movement since the initial stages. I congratulate all water campaigners around the country who in the past two and a half or three years stood up to be counted. Hundreds of thousands of people went out onto the streets. Community campaigners, anti-metering protestors and those...

Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Séamus Healy: What about the game changer? The Taoiseach promised a game changer, but we did not have any.

Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Séamus Healy: The Minister owes us fairness and the Taoiseach owes us a game changer, as he promised.

Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Séamus Healy: One hundred years ago this week, the men and women of the Rising declared a Republic and read the Proclamation from the steps of the GPO. The Proclamation includes the following statement: "We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible". Sadly, successive Governments, in...

Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Apr 2016)

Séamus Healy: The policy, A Vision for Change, published in 2006, was an excellent roadmap for the development of mental health services throughout the country. It set out a whole community response and it rebalanced the service from what was primarily an inpatient service to a community-based service. It detailed a well-funded, well-resourced and appropriately staffed service and there was and continues...

Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)

Séamus Healy: There is a motion on the Order Paper signed by 39 Deputies regarding domestic water charges. Deputy Martin spoke about Deputy Moynihan's choreographic abilities or otherwise. I am not sure about that but I do know that on two occasions Fianna Fáil joined with the Government to stop-----

Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)

Séamus Healy: -----a debate in this Chamber on domestic water charges.

Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)

Séamus Healy: I ask Deputy Martin if he intends to do that again today.

Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)

Séamus Healy: This is a party which had a pledge to end water charges in its manifesto. It is not good enough that this party should stop 158 elected Deputies to this House discussing this issue.

Business of Dáil (26 Apr 2016)

Séamus Healy: It has done it twice and I appeal to Deputy Martin not to do it today and join with those other 39 whose names are on the motion on the Order Paper and ensure a debate on domestic water charges takes place in this Chamber today or tomorrow.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (26 Apr 2016)

Séamus Healy: 250. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his plans to open the new vacant 40-bed unit at Our Lady's County and Surgical Hospital in Cashel, County Tipperary, given the ongoing crisis at South Tipperary General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8051/16]

Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Séamus Healy: I thank Deputy Finian McGrath for sharing time with me. Over the past eight years, something like €4 billion, 2,000 beds and two million home help hours have been taken out of the public health system. That simply must stop. Reinvestment in the system is urgently required. We need a public health system that is based on medical need, that does away with the two-tier system and that...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Séamus Healy: I will conclude by saying over the past two Governments there has been huge and gross inequality. Recent CSO figures show that the 20% wealthiest people in this country own 73% of the wealth, while the bottom 20% own 0.2% of the wealth. The Government must renegotiate the fiscal treaty and tackle the inequality in our society. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael support the fiscal treaty,...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Séamus Healy: As I said earlier, there is a crisis at South Tipperary General Hospital as we speak. Trolley figures have increased by over 100% and figures released show that the March 2016 figure is 552, up 319 on the figure for March 2015. Hospital attendance has also increased substantially and occupancy of medical beds is running at 150%. When we last voted for Taoiseach here on 10 March 2016, there...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Séamus Healy: On a point of order-----