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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will withdraw his stated support for the inclusion in the transatlantic trade and investment partnership negotiations of a new investor state dispute settlement mechanism, which allows corporations to sue Governments for loss of revenue, bypassing the Irish courts, when Government regulations are seen to affect expected profits;...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: Will the Minister provide an update on the transatlantic trade and investment partnership negotiations and, specifically, the proposed investor state dispute settlement mechanism?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: There are serious and significant concerns about these negotiations in a variety of areas, including the prospect of the displacement of 1 million jobs in the European Union which will affect this country too. There is a concern that low-grade, hormone-injected and genetically modified beef products from the US may gain access to the Irish market. Questions have arisen about the investor...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: There is a concern these negotiations are secret. Is the Minister prepared to advise the Dáil on an ongoing, say quarterly, basis on the conduct and the progress of these negotiations?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: Unemployment figures in County Tipperary are well in excess of 14,000, which is significantly above the national average. Towns like Carrick-on-Suir and Nenagh, which did not benefit from the Celtic tiger, now find themselves with unemployment levels that are more than double the national average. In respect of job creation by IDA companies in 2014, a mere 64 jobs were created in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: The Minister's announcement yesterday says nothing about towns in Tipperary. It talks about the investment over the coming years in building advance manufacturing and office facilities in Sligo, Tralee, Castlebar, Galway, Dundalk, Limerick, Athlone, Carlow and Waterford. There is no mention of any town in Tipperary or the building of advance factories or office facilities on any of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new jobs created in companies supported by IDA Ireland; the number of jobs lost in agency-supported companies; the number of site visits organised by the agency in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 in Tipperary north, Tipperary south and County Tipperary as a whole; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6180/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: The Government has abandoned job creation in County Tipperary over the last four years. Yesterday, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, announced a regional strategy which excluded the county and further disadvantaged its towns. What specific steps does the Minister intend to take to create jobs in County Tipperary? I ask him to urgently and immediately...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Remit (12 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 17. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the budget and job creation targets for the local enterprise offices for County Tipperary for the years 2013, 2014 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5840/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (5 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: The Minister is deliberately being misleading.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (5 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 3. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of 400,000 children living in households experiencing multiple forms of deprivation and 135,000 children suffering daily material deprivation, according to the recent Central Statistics Office, SILC, report; the number of children living in consistent poverty, meaning they are living both at risk of poverty and experiencing deprivation,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (5 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: There is a frightening scale of child poverty in this country, and professionals dealing with vulnerable families have known that for a number of years. We had further official confirmation of that recently with the Central Statistics Office SILC figures and the UNICEF report of last year. Surely that is a wake-up call for the Minister and her Department to address this issue. I ask that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (5 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: There are 135,000 children living in material poverty in this country, and approximately 400,000 households are suffering deprivation. That is 30% of the population according to the Central Statistics Office. Child poverty has doubled in the period of the recession, from approximately 6% initially to nearly 12% today. The UNICEF report shows that children here have fallen further and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (5 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: The Minister is being deliberately misleading with regard to Chile and Poland. No one has suggested that Ireland should have levels of child benefit comparable to those countries. 10 o’clock The Central Statistics Office and UNICEF have stated there are frightening levels of child poverty in this country, that they have increased substantially in recent years, that if they are not...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (5 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 12. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will restore the fee electricity and gas units, the fuel allowance and the length of the heating period to the level obtaining in 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4985/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will restore the income disregard for lone parents at work from €75 per week in 2015 to €146.50 per week, the level pertaining before budget 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4987/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (5 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the fact the current rent supplement scheme is not fit for purpose and is creating hardship and homelessness for housing applicants, her plans to introduce a revised scheme including increased rent caps and increased rent supplement payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4988/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Payments (5 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: 49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will restore the back to school allowance to 2009 levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4986/15]

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Séamus Healy: Debt is a millstone around the necks of the Irish people and of all low and middle-income families across Europe. I support the call for a new European debt conference. There is precedent for that. In 1952-53, Germany had 50% of its debt written off with a moratorium on repayment and a lengthy repayment period of 50 years or more. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan has told us that...

Housing Affordability: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jan 2015)

Séamus Healy: There is a very significant housing crisis in this country and the figures are truly horrendous. A total of 90,000 families languish on local authority housing waiting lists throughout the country. A total of 73,000 families are on rent supplement, in many cases, condemned to live in poor, substandard, damp and insecure accommodation. For example, in Tipperary, 3,100 people are on the...