Results 961-980 of 2,919 for speaker:Séamus Healy

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Funding (24 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: We can all agree on this and the Minister is in agreement, but what we really need is action. In 2011 we were promised graduate-led child care, a second free preschool year and a Scandinavian-type child care system. None of that has materialised. There are numerous difficulties in the service for staff. These are qualified staff providing a well laid out and accepted curriculum but at low...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Funding (24 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 122. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a clear timeframe according to which he will move Ireland from the current investment in child care provision of 0.2% of gross domestic product to 0.7% of gross domestic product; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7975/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Funding (24 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: It is widely accepted that early childhood education is underfunded and under-resourced and is being subsidised by communities, staff, employers and parents. Will the Minister set out a timeline whereby he will move from the current investment of 0.2% of GDP to the accepted level of 0.7% of GDP?

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (24 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 135. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a second full free preschool year for all children in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7741/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (24 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 146. 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 re-instate 2011 levels of capitation, as an interim measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7740/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (24 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 153. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a capitation grant for all children in child care, until they are eligible to attend primary school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7742/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (24 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 161. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide the minimum salary levels for employees of child care providers, who are in receipt of the capitation fee, in view of the fact that the capitation rate for the free preschool year is a major factor affecting salary levels in child care provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7739/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Implementation (24 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 168. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will extend eligibility for the existing learner fund to all child care staff, in order to enable all staff to access third level qualifications; if he will fund child-free continuous professional development days, in order to enable child care workers to implement the national curriculum and quality frameworks; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (19 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of workers in the construction sector that were taxed on a pay as you earn basis in each year since 2008; the total revenue earned by these workers in each of these years; the total amount of tax, universal social charge and employee's pay related social insurance paid by these workers in each of these years; the total amount of employer's pay...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Agreements (17 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 150. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the prediction by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation of up to 1 million displaced jobs in the European Union due to the proposed transatlantic trade and investment partnership between the United States of America and the European Union and the danger that the Irish food market will be flooded with low-grade, hormone-injected...

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 9. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a list of the sites owned by IDA Ireland in County Tipperary that have potential for use for inward investment in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5839/15]

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: In view of the very significant level of unemployment in County Tipperary, which is much higher than the national average, and the fact that the county is not getting its fair share of foreign direct investment, I ask the Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton, to provide a list of sites available for of inward investment in the county.

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Minister. No matter what way the Minister looks at this and no matter what he says, the fact of the matter is that the creation of 64 jobs in County Tipperary in 2014, when IDA Ireland created 15,012 nationally, means the county has been abandoned by the Government. It is not getting its fair share of inward investment and that is the reason I have tabled a series of questions...

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: This is clearly a story of exclusion. The Minister has certainly make decisions and choices but those he has made have excluded every town in County Tipperary from the regional strategy. As I stated, those towns have significant levels of unemployment. The unemployment rate in Carrick-on-Suir is double the national average. There is no site or advance factory there. In Nenagh and...

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: It is not in the Minister's statement.

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: Not a single Tipperary town is included.

Other Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: That is what the Minister is saying, however.

Other Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: What I said was that we were not getting our fair share of it.

Other Questions: IDA Site Visits (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 6. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the plans in place to locate a new enterprise at a vacant plant (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the number of visits to the site that have been organised by the Industrial Development Agency in 2014 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5843/15]

Other Questions: IDA Site Visits (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: This question concerns the Johnson & Johnson ALZA plant at in Cashel, County Tipperary, which has been vacant for some time. It is a state-of-the-art facility and I am looking for an update on the situation.