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Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Minister has been inviting us to consider outcomes. Maybe we should examine some of the outcomes of the social and economic policy of this Government. The gap between rich and poor in Ireland is now four times the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, average. Incomes in the average Irish household have fallen by 50% and low income households lost a greater...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (8 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance the fraction of the book value that was paid recently by Lone Star and Oakland Capital for the non-performing loans which had been originally drawn down from Irish Nationwide Building Society; the status of the assurance by Lone Star and Oakland Capital that they will comply with Central Bank of Ireland guidelines in dealing with mortgage debt; the entity...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: They are not solvable.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: As the leader of this country, the Taoiseach is responsible for what is happening in relation to repossessions and evictions. As he well knows, thousands of families are unable to meet the insolvency criteria set down by this Government. Up to 30,000 families are facing eviction. This is happening every day throughout this country. At the same time, tax exiles and the Irish elite are...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: -----will have a property repossessed on foot of a debt of €50,000 while a friend of the bankers has €500,000, €1 million or €5 million written off.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: Can senior bankers give write-downs to each other? Will a banker be able to give a write-down to his political buddies in the local branch or cumann? During the boom years, these bankers gave huge loans to the Irish elite. The same people are now benefitting from these write-downs. The International Monetary Fund said in a recent report that the current situation here endangers social...

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: Every day.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: Every day.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: What about the 30,000 cases that will not get written down?

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: We are concerned about the write-downs being given to bankers' buddies.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: The elite were given huge loans during the boom and now they are getting huge write-downs.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: Thousands of Irish families are facing eviction. Ulster Bank alone has 4,700 repossession cases before the courts.

Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)

Séamus Healy: At Clonmel court last Thursday, there were 30 such repossession cases and the same is happening in every courthouse right across this country. At the same time, thousands of Irish homes have been sold to foreign landlords. The Irish Nationwide Building Society non-performing loan book is being sold at knock down prices to American vulture capitalists Loan Star and Oakland Capital. What...

Restorative Justice (Reparation of Victims) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: Other speakers have referred to the fact that many countries have had a system of restorative justice in place for some time. The Bill raises various issues and principles of restorative justice – community restorative justice, the rights of victims and support services for them. I am sure Deputy John Halligan would agree that the Bill would benefit from the legislative process in...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: No; the Government is forcing them to operate like that.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: The number of trolleys has quadrupled.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: The policies of the Government and the cuts it has introduced in the health services have quadrupled the number of trolleys and chairs in the emergency department at South Tipperary General Hospital, from 750 in the year the Taoiseach came into office to 3,100 at the end of 2013.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: I invite the Taoiseach to visit South Tipperary General Hospital to see that absolutely excellent hospital and its excellent staff who are at their wits' end because of the cuts the Government has introduced. If only from the point of view of human decency, the Taoiseach should take action to solve this problem. There is no excuse not to deal with this problem, because the money is...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: It is the Taoiseach's duty to make sure people have a decent health service of quality. I again ask him to visit the aforementioned hospital and, by instructing the Health Service Executive, to ensure the putting in place of additional beds at Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel, and South Tipperary General Hospital, as well as additional consultant, nursing, medical and support staff in the...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2014)

Séamus Healy: It absolutely is.