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Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)

Séamus Healy: Will the Tánaiste ensure that these families will be allowed to remain in their homes?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (28 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance if the preference shares held in Bank of Ireland by the State are callable at the discretion of BOI; if there are any restrictions on this discretion; if the State is compelled to sell the preference shares to Bank Of Ireland should the bank seek to buy them at any time; if the preference shares are convertible to ordinary shares; if so, has the State the...

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: What is the Taoiseach doing for this specific group of people?

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: If the Taoiseach would answer the question we would have some basis for discussion.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: While the Taoiseach continues to put his head in the sand and washes his hands like a Pontius Pilate act, many of the people I am talking about will end up on the streets, as Focus Ireland said this morning. It is certain that families evicted from their homes will end up on the huge local authority housing waiting lists. Some 110,000 families are already on those lists and more will join...

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: I am not talking about those.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: Will the Taoiseach intervene with the banks?

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: They cannot do so because the lenders are not engaging with them.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: It will not happen in these cases unless the Taoiseach intervenes.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: Absolutely. It is not a solution.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: It is going out to those 40,000 people.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: Up to 30,000 families face eviction due to the Government's failure to protect them. Mortgage holders will not qualify for the insolvency procedures because they have no disposable incomes or disposable assets. They have fully engaged with their lenders. They are not strategic defaulters. Their only assets are their family homes. They hold modest mortgages, many of less than...

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: -----forbearance was not appropriate, given the fact that the person's financial position was unsustainable, and that, if the repayments due were not met and arrears accumulated on the mortgage, the matter would, regrettably, be referred to solicitors. Such conduct from banks that we have bailed out is outrageous, unjust and unfair.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: Will the Government legislate urgently to enable these unfortunate and blameless families to stay in their homes or will it continue to allow the banks to deploy the modern equivalent of the battering ram?

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: Up to 30,000.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: They are fully engaged. They have done everything.

Bond Repayments: Motion [Private Members] (26 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: Debt is the single biggest issue facing the citizens of this country. I publicly congratulate the "Ballyhea Says No" group which has raised this issue and kept it before the public over a long period of time, marching every week. I also congratulate the other groups around the country linked with "Ballyhea Says No" who are doing the same thing, including "Clonmel Says No", which marches...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Information and Quality Authority Corporate Plan 2013-2015: Discussion (26 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: I am keeping an eye on the monitors because health business will be dealt with in the Dáil Chamber shortly, as happens frequently these days.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Information and Quality Authority Corporate Plan 2013-2015: Discussion (26 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: I want to ask one question about resources. Has HIQA any input into the question of resources for the health services? If the agency is checking the standards in hospitals or health agencies and clinics, surely an important factor is the level of resources available in the particular hospital or health care centre. In recent years, over 11,000 staff have been taken out of the system-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Information and Quality Authority Corporate Plan 2013-2015: Discussion (26 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: This is relevant to the corporate plan. A total of €3 billion has been cut from the health budget. I am aware of a hospital near my home which has lost 25% of its budget and almost 200 staff members. Surely these are issues that crop up when HIQA is carrying out inspections and checking standards across the board in various health care settings. Is it reasonable that HIQA reports...