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- Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)
Séamus Healy: He should answer the questions.
- Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)
Séamus Healy: He knows the answers and he should give them now.
- Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)
Séamus Healy: The Minister of State knows the answers to the questions and he should give them now.
- Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)
Séamus Healy: Will families who are subject to a boil water notice have to pay this charge?
- Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)
Séamus Healy: It is a reasonable question.
- Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)
Séamus Healy: It is time for some honesty in this debate. Fine Gael and the Labour Party are kicking the question of water charges down the road until after the local and European elections, with the decision to be made in August. On the basis of the interviews and statements made by the Minister yesterday, a household of two adults and two children will pay €360 per year, while a household of...
- Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)
Séamus Healy: Will people obliged to boil water, such as those in Burncourt and Skeheenarinky in my constituency, be exempt from the charges? Second, will the thousands of families on the north side of Clonmel who have hard water and whose electrical goods are being damaged on a daily basis by limescale be exempt from the charges? I ask the Minister to respond to those two specific questions.
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
Séamus Healy: Any honest, reasonable person would agree there is a crisis in the housing and homeless situation caused by the abandonment of the local authority house building programme by this and the previous Governments and the privatisation of the housing programme. As a result, 90,000 families are on local authority waiting lists throughout the country. In my constituency, Tipperary South, 1,225...
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
Séamus Healy: The Government has been in power for three years.
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
Séamus Healy: What about the last three years?
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue. Having looked at this White Paper, I believe it is not a White Paper at all. It is, in fact, a Green Paper simply dressed up. While the policy statement that, in future, access to health services will be based on medical need alone is obviously welcome, there is little or no detail to allow for a forensic examination of the actual proposal....
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: These are huge impositions on top of families and individuals who are already hugely hard pressed by the cutbacks and the reductions to services introduced by the Government. It is suggested in the paper that medical card holders will be subsidised. This brings us to the whole question of medical cards. We have to wonder which individuals will have medical cards at the end of the current...
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: The other point that appears to be clear from the document is that there will be no extra funding provided for the health service. This brings me to another situation which arises every day throughout the hospital services, namely, the very difficult and chaotic situation in regard to patients on trolleys in hospital emergency departments. I refer specifically to the atrocious and...
- Ambulance Service: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: I rise to support the motion on the ambulance service requesting adequate funding for the service. Anybody who has an eye to see or an ear to hear knows that the ambulance service is under-funded, under-resourced, understaffed and under-equipped and that it compares unfavourably with our neighbours in Northern Ireland and particularly Scotland. We have about 1,600 staff while Scotland,...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: The Government has the money.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: The numbers on trolleys have quadrupled since they came into government.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: €11 million in cuts is the reason.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: The management in the south east have already asked for this.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: That is not good enough.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2014)
Séamus Healy: Approximately three weeks ago, on 25 March, I raised with the Taoiseach the absolutely unacceptable number of patients on trolleys and chairs in the accident and emergency department in South Tipperary General Hospital. I described the conditions on that day as reminiscent of those in the Third World. I make no apology for this. Three weeks later, nothing has been done, despite requests...