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Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Government privatised bin collections.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: This is complete nonsense.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: No, we are against paying for the same thing twice.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: That is completely outrageous.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: It is not. It was a display of pure arrogance.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: It was a display of arrogance and hypocrisy.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: The arrogance of the Government is absolutely breathtaking. The contempt the Taoiseach and his Ministers have shown for the Dáil, Opposition Deputies and the hundreds of thousands of people we represent demonstrates that they have lost touch with the real world. The irony and hypocrisy of the Minister's announcement in introducing water charges will not be lost on the general public....

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: The untruth being peddled is that the public will not pay for water.

Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: Members of the public continue to pay for water through general taxation. The proposed water charges amount to double taxation and an attempt to make hard-pressed families pay a second time. This revenue raising exercise which has nothing to do with conservation will not work. Today's announcements amount to political trickery to get water charges over the line and establish the principle...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 3) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: The views of Professor Kathleen Lynch, head of the UCD school of social justice, are appropriate in this discussion. She has argued that water is a public good that cannot and should not be commodified, commercialised or privatised, and it is the duty of the State to protect people's right to safe, secure, accessible and affordable water. She has argued that what is a public good cannot and...

Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: First, the Government did a U-turn.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Investigations (18 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: 228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there was a Garda investigation into a matter (details supplied); if officials of his Department were interviewed in the course of any investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43985/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (18 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: 286. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will confirm if there was a Garda investigation into a matter (details supplied) and if officials of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine were interviewed in the course of any investigation. [43986/14]

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (12 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Workplace Relations Bill and would like to refer, in particular, to the question of pensions and the wholesale destruction and closure of pension schemes and the changing of schemes from defined benefit to defined contribution schemes, which has been ongoing in the workplace over the past number of years. Those changes mean huge losses for workers in...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I wish to focus on what the austerity policies of the Government, including the Labour Party, have done to families and children. I include the austerity policies of a Labour Party Minister and Tánaiste. We know that families, including children, have fallen further and faster into poverty in Ireland than in any other developed country....

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Children's Health (Tobacco Smoke in Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the Minister and his official. I compliment Senators John Crown, Mark Daly and, in particular, Jillian van Turnhout who developed the Bill. This common-sense Bill is important because it will ensure the protection of children. It is non-controversial and has been accepted across the political divide. I hope it will have a speedy passage.

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak to this simple, straightforward and common sense motion and I compliment Deputy Joan Collins on introducing it. I am surprised and disappointed that the Government saw fit to table an amendment which effectively amounts to a counter motion. Given that the contents of the motion are ostensibly Government policy, I hope the Government, even at this...

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: This Finance Bill, the budget and general Government policy is based on spin, hype and, indeed, the Government's lie that this country is broke.

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: If the Government does not like that word, let us call it something else.

Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2014)

Séamus Healy: It is completely untrue that this country is broke.