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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (5 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: "Live horse and you'll get grass" comes to mind. The Minister burying her head in the sand and saying that everything is fine and that everything will be fine is madness. It is not sustainable. It breaks the social contract between the State and its citizens and it is already creating serious difficulties. It will create much more serious difficulties in the future unless it is stopped....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (5 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: I have been nominated by myself. This Government is, as we all know, presiding over a housing and homelessness emergency. This is no accident or error. It is the result of a deliberate policy of this Government and previous Governments and commenced by a Fianna Fáil Government. The policy sees housing as a profit-making commodity and sees the market as the solution to this emergency....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (5 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: -----costing €1,132 in rent per month.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (5 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: The corresponding mortgage on that property would be €838.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (5 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: When will the Government accept that its housing policy is an abject failure-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (5 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: -----and when will it deal with the issues I have raised?

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: I support this motion of no confidence in the Minister. He is presiding over a housing and homelessness emergency. This is no accident and no error, but the result of deliberate policy pursued by this Government and previous Governments. This policy sees housing as a commodity and the market as a solution to the housing and homelessness crisis. That policy has failed, was always going to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (28 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: 139. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be approved for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49466/19]

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Sláinte), 2019: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Health) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: I am sharing my time with Deputies Eamon Ryan and Shortall. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I confirm my support for it. It is particularly important when we think of its background, including the chaos in our health services, the overcrowding, long waiting lists, the lack of mental health services, dysfunctional disability services and, of course, the two-tier health...

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: The health service is in chaos and crisis, whether it be the hundreds of thousands of people who are waiting to be seen as outpatients, those on inpatient waiting lists, the 100,000 people who have been on trolleys to date this year or the 300 elderly patients who will die unnecessarily this year on trolleys in our overcrowded hospitals. I raised this matter with the Taoiseach recently on...

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Bill. I also welcome the measures contained in the Bill such as the Christmas bonus, the increase in the living alone allowance, the 35,000 hot meals to be provided for school children and other similar provdisions. What is contained in a Bill, however, is not always what is most important and this Bill is a classic example. What is not included in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (12 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the retention of a second teacher at a school (details supplied) will be approved in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46539/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (12 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: 334. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46185/19]

Illegal Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak to this very important motion and commend Deputy Curran for bringing it forward. I support both it and the Sinn Féin amendment. There is no doubt that drugs are to be found in every town and village across the country. I hesitate to say this in case there might be an inference that it is normal or acceptable. Of course, it is not and it is being...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: Obviously, the Minister does not recognise that there is a serious homelessness crisis. The figure of 10,398 does not include a significant number of other people who are also homeless. Thousands of people couch surf. They are living at home or on relatives' couches and floors. There are additional thousands in that category alone. There is also a situation where thousands of individuals...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: Do I not have another minute? I want to ask the Minister, and I am sure he would want to respond-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: -----about the procedure for homeless persons being approved as homeless by local authorities.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: There is now a situation whereby persons who are homeless in Tipperary County Council-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: -----must advise the council that they are homeless, make a full housing application and wait 12 weeks to be designated as homeless.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: Will the Minister comment on that situation because it is unbelievable?