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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Regulation of Cosmetic Surgery: Discussion (18 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: I welcome our guests and thank them for their excellent presentations. I concur with Senator John Crown on the dermatology service in the south east. Coming from south Tipperary, I am very aware of the inadequate service in the south east, particularly south Tipperary, which has always been less than adequately served by way of an outreach service from what is now Waterford University...

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: I am disappointed that Deputy O'Donovan has left. He obviously arrived to put on his comedy act and to follow it with a disappearing act. The public is absolutely opposed to the privatisation of water and it wants absolute certainty about that. A plebiscite does not give that certainty. The only thing that will provide such certainty is a constitutional amendment, and that is what the...

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: The public has good reason not to trust the Government. The Minister who is introducing this legislation told the people of north Tipperary during the last general election campaign that they should vote for him so he could stop Fine Gael introducing water charges. In the Tesco advertisement issued by the Labour Party one of the six things it named that would hurt the Irish people was a...

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Minister is about to give away the exemption we have under that framework. I ask the Minister to desist from that and stop these water charges, once and for all.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: It is correct.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: Tax the super rich.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: That is right; we went to the well with a bucket.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: We were the same.

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Deputy has-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: Will the Minister of State answer my question?

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: What about the elderly gentleman in my constituency who was without water for a full week?

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: I support the amendment from Deputy Catherine Murphy. We have been unable to get the figures from the Minister but we know now, almost by default, that the question of the finances and the funding of this arrangement are, at best, up in the air. Furthermore, we know that, at best, only a small income, perhaps in the region of €30 million to €40 million, will be derived from...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: Perhaps it could be addressed in the general spirit of the legislation. I have asked the question three times already.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Minister of State may be able to answer the question seeing as the Minister has been unable to answer it.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I wish to contribute.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Pension Provisions (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: 26. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation as pay and pensions in payment are now processed separately in the public service, if he will introduce legislation to give the Alliance of Retired Public Servants a statutory right to access to the Labour Court and Labour Relations Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48118/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (17 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: 228. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is, at present, no requirement for charges to be imposed on domestic dwellings for the use of water from public mains for domestic purposes under the EU Water Framework Directive and that Article 9.4 formally and legally absolves Ireland from the requirement to charge for domestic water; if he will ensure, on...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: As I noted last Friday, section 7 would establish a public water forum. I ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to withdraw the section because it is worse than useless. It is just a smoke screen for Irish Water, the Minister and his Department. We found it impossible to get answers from either the Minister or Irish Water regarding domestic water charges. On...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions (16 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Alliance of Retired Public Servants was established informally in 2013 and formally this year. It represents approximately 75,000 retired public servants right across the Civil Service, local authorities, health employees etc. I accept fully and welcome that the Minister has met the alliance. However, he has done so on a concessionary basis and I ask him to introduce legislation that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pensions (16 Dec 2014)

Séamus Healy: On the legislation, will the Minister use his influence at Cabinet, at the Economic Management Council and with his colleague to further the question of legislating for this group of pensioners?