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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: I will be brief. I agree with what the previous speakers said. This is the third year in a row where we have an unsustainable budget and cuts of €619 million plus 2,500 staff, which will create further difficulties, particularly for patients but also for staff and for the provision of necessary services for patients. I want to raise again the question of whether there is any...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: We do not get the same time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (23 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the delegates from the Garda Síochána, the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, the HSE and their staff to the meeting. One in ever two smokers dies of a smoking-related illness. It is shocking. We are dealing with an industry of death and for it to continue, it is necessary for it every hour of every day to get additional young people addicted to tobacco. I support...

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: I want to confirm my support for this Private Members' Bill. The activities uncovered recently in charity boards, with salary top-ups and pension payments, is completely unacceptable and an affront to the ordinary people of this country, who are paying through the nose for a recession which had they no hand, act or part in creating. The debacle we have seen has the potential to destroy the...

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: In contrast, ordinary people are being absolutely fleeced and made pay for the recession that they have had no hand, act or part in creating. That is fundamentally wrong and will have to stop.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: As the Taoiseach said, there is a very long way to go. I hope it does not depend on when the local and European elections take place. That would appear to me to be the position having listened to Government backbenchers, Members of the European Parliament and even Ministers of State. The Taoiseach mentioned the word "consultation". Is he satisfied that the EirGrid consultation was...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: The other international reports raise very serious health issues associated with the pylons, including childhood leukaemia. In view of those reports and the fact that EirGrid cannot guarantee that there are no health implications, I urge that we use the precautionary principle that is accepted at EU and WHO levels when there are health dangers. On this basis, the proposals should be...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: I asked whether he was satisfied with the consultation.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: Is the Taoiseach satisfied with EirGrid's consultation?

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: At levels generally encountered by members of the public.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: Communities across the country are angry and frustrated yet determined to oppose EirGrid's intolerable proposal to erect 250 monster pylons, carrying 400 kVA overhead power lines across Munster and Leinster. Thousands of people turned out for meetings in opposition to these plans and there has been significant development over the Christmas and new year. The first was the revelation that...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: We are also indebted to the Irish Examiner because on 30 December it reported that the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, wrote to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: The Minister for Health indicated his concern about these pylons and the link with childhood cancers. He referenced the Dublin City University public health expert, Professor Anthony Staines, who has stated that "it is well established that low-frequency magnetic fields increase the risk of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia". In view of those developments, will the Taoiseach accept there is a...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: Does the Taoiseach accept that EirGrid's so-called consultation process is fundamentally flawed and does not conform to the Aarhus Convention? Will the Taoiseach suspend this project, pending a full international, independent assessment of the project, up to and including the question of putting these lines under the ground and sea?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: Can the HSE provide confirmation in writing on the ability of GPs to extend the card? I am certainly not aware of any GP who tells me he knows about this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: Regardless of whether they are, I have not come across them and I deal with them on a regular basis, as does the Cathaoirleach. It would be helpful to get written confirmation from the HSE that that is in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: Is there an individual figure per NCHD?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the Minister and his officials, and Mr. O’Brien and the officials from the HSE. In particular, I welcome the Minister’s emphasis on the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill. This is a fundamental issue for public health and for the health service. The committee has set aside several weeks from next Thursday until 13 February to deal with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (15 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: 777. To ask the Minister for Health if there is provision in the Health Service Executive service plan for 2014 or in the budget of his Department for 2014 for the development of a 100-bed unit on the grounds of St. Mary's Hospital in Drogheda to cater for future demand for residential care for older citizens as recommended in the HSE Louth Services for Older People Report 2012; and if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Plan 2014: Minister for Health and HSE (14 Jan 2014)

Séamus Healy: There is €7.5 million for hospital reconfiguration.