Results 1,361-1,380 of 2,919 for speaker:Séamus Healy
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: The Minister has reneged on every commitment he made in the general election.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: The Minister is talking about himself.
- Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (12 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: The amendment before us to cut the sick leave arrangements for public sector workers is a savage attack on those workers. In his contribution the Minister mentioned that this was a Labour Court recommendation and is supported by some of the trade unions involved. We must never forget that these changes were demanded by the Government under threat and indeed under a bullying regime....
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Séamus Healy: I apologise, Chairman, as I had to leave after my initial contribution. I asked for figures on agency costs for non-consultant hospital doctors and nurses. I know the Minister does not have the figures with him but I ask him to send them on.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Séamus Healy: Okay. I hope I will get those figures. I have been told that the agency cost of non-consultant hospital doctors in particular is significant. The Minister tells a good story about medical cards. Unfortunately, I do not believe him because what he has said conflicts with what I see on a daily basis in my clinics around Tipperary and what I am told by other Deputies on what they hear in...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Séamus Healy: Nonsense.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Séamus Healy: There are trolleys are in corridors and overcrowded wards.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Séamus Healy: Live in the real world.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) Séamus Healy: Last year, there was a supplementary estimate in the region of €300 million. This year, it amounts to €199 million. This immediately raises the question as to the adequacy of the initial budgets, whether these budgets were deliberately understated and whether the service was deliberately under-funded. Although we cannot speak about next year, we have very serious concerns...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: That is a mean and shameful reply. However, those are not my words. Those are the words of Deputy Eamon Gilmore, leader of the Labour Party, when he addressed a question on Leaders' Questions to a former Taoiseach who had abolished that bonus:This payment has been made to pensioners every year for 30 years, even in some of the country’s most difficult economic years ... for the first...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: I want to ask Deputy Eamon Gilmore and the Labour Party how they can stand over not restoring the Christmas bonus in these circumstances.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: I am referring to how wealthy people were comforted by the previous Government. We know that during the course of this Government since Deputy Gilmore and the Taoiseach came to power-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: -----we know from the Sunday Independent 300 rich list that they have increased their wealth by €9 billion since 2011.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: That is €9,000 million. A very small tax, wealth assets or income tax, on these very wealthy individuals would cover-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: I have a question.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: With all respect, the first question took 15 minutes.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: As I said, a very small tax-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: -----on these very wealthy individuals would cover this Christmas bonus-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: -----numerous times over.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2013)
Séamus Healy: In the context of the obscene wealth-----