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Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: This Spring Statement is effectively an election manifesto of sorts with the bulk of the promises made to be implemented after the next general election. It is a series of political promises but we know well what happens to political promises. They are made to be broken, according to the former Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, who said that is what...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Facilities (28 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide capital funding to Mary Immaculate College, County Limerick, for the upgrading and development of library services at the college to provide equal learning opportunities to students at the college as are available to other third level students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16710/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Job Losses (28 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 458. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will urgently address the threats to employment, of layoffs, short-term and part-time working and job losses at the Bord na Móna factory at Littleton, Thurles, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16709/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the Minister's presentation. The proposed legislation is also welcome and the feedback on it has been positive, but perhaps it does not go far enough. I will air two issues. Obviously, they have been raised previously. We must grasp the nettle of sports sponsorship as it relates to this area and at least start the process of stopping that area of sports sponsorship. The other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Alcohol Consumption: BT Young Scientist Winners (23 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: I welcome Mr. Ian O'Sullivan and Ms Eimear Murphy to the joint committee and thank them for their presentation. I congratulate them on winning the BT Young Scientist competition. I include in my congratulations their parents, school and all those who supported them in this endeavour. The research they have produced is, to say the least, disappointing from the point of view of parents. In...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Funding (23 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 89. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the State and State agency grants paid to and-or payable in the future to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16158/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Retention (23 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 90. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will intervene with a company (details supplied) to save 160 jobs at risk at the Intellicom Contact Centre in Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16159/15]

Self-Employed and the SME Sector: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue and to confirm my support for the motion. I have no doubt that sustained and focused support for small and medium-sized industry is vital for job creation and to deal with the jobs crisis. However, this alone will not solve the unemployment crisis. Private enterprise alone will not solve the unemployment crisis. A total of 350,000 people...

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: I am thankful for the opportunity to speak on the Bill. While it is welcome, it is not what the Government committed itself to in the last general election, nor is it what it promised in the programme for Government. The programme for Government in 2011 stated: "Universal primary care will remove fees for GP care and will be introduced within the Government's term of office." That...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Early Child Care Education (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: Will the Minister indicate whether he and the Minister for Finance will set out the date by which the capitation rate will be increased in the context of the famous spring statement that is supposed to issue shortly? Anybody involved in this area, particularly at community or not-for-profit level, knows that there is now a serious crisis. Many of these centres are experiencing severe...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Early Child Care Education (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: If something is not done soon, they will not be in business much longer.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Early Child Care Education (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 5. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will increase the capitation fee payable under the early childhood care and education scheme to the level required to provide the service; if he will reinstate the 2011 level of capitation as an interim measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14647/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Early Child Care Education (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: This question relates to the level of funding available to child care facilities, particularly those which are community based. The level of such funding simply not adequate to allow such facilities to provide services.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Early Child Care Education (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: Anybody currently involved with child care facilities, particularly those which are community based, knows that the funding available is simply not adequate in order to facilitate the provision of services. Many not-for-profit community child care facilities throughout the country are in serious financial difficulty and require additional funding. A nod towards the existence of this problem...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Child Care Services Provision (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: Question No. 3 relates to the one-parent family payment and the situation after 02 July next when the payment is lost once the youngest child reaches seven years of age. Prior to any such change being introduced, the Government promised that Scandinavian style child care would be available but that has not happened. Single parents will be required to be available for work after 02 July this...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Child Care Services Provision (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: The Government is putting the cart before the horse. As I said already, the Government promised child care services comparable to those available in Scandinavia prior to this change taking effect. However, from 02 July next, single parents will be required to be available for job activation measures with no child care services being made available to them. This is definitely putting the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Child Care Services Provision (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 3. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, in view of the fact that, effective from 2 July 2015, single parents of children over seven years of age will be required to participate in activation measures outside the home in order to receive the full jobseeker's transition payment, he will provide free child care outside school hours and in school holiday periods for the children...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 14. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is now in a position to provide extra resources to child care providers, in respect of children with additional and special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14456/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the fact that funding of the school completion programme has been cut from €32.9 million in 2008 to €24.7 million currently, including a cut of 6.5% in the current year, if he will restore the level of funding to this vital programme for young persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14459/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Child Care Education (15 Apr 2015)

Séamus Healy: 24. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a second full free preschool year for all children from the beginning of the new school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14458/15]