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Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Local Government Bill 2013. This Bill purports to be about putting people first and informing local government and local democracy. It is nothing like that, it is about the destruction of local democracy. Local democracy is about the provision of local services to facilitate access for people to those services and indeed to public representatives....

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Family Clinics (14 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 153. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will reverse his decision to close the medical clinic at the Curragh, County Kildare in view of the fact that members of the Defence Forces habitually risk life and injury on behalf of the State at home and abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48697/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Defence Forces Family Clinics (14 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 197. To ask the Minister for Health if he will call on the Department of Defence to reverse the decision to close the medical clinic at the Curragh, County Kildare in view of the fact that members of the Defence Forces habitually risk life and injury on behalf of the state at home and abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48698/13]

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: Dishonesty is destroying the reputation of politicians and of the political system. There is deep and understandable cynicism in the population generally about politicians and politics. It is being driven by dishonest legislation like the Bill we are discussing which deals with income limits for medical cards for the over 70s. It is important to note what the current Government said in...

Other Questions: Medical Card Data (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 12. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he will take to end the practice by general practitioners of charging medical card holders for blood tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48061/13]

Other Questions: Medical Card Data (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister of State, Deputy White, said earlier that there is a lot happening in primary care, and indeed there is. Most GPs and their staff are working above and beyond the call of duty. However, that does not entitle GPs to put further pressure on ill, low-income patients with medical cards. Unfortunately, that is happening nowadays because GPs are charging for services that in the...

Other Questions: Medical Card Data (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: I appreciate the Minister of State's reply but because of the relationship between patients and GPs, it is difficult for individual patients to make complaints. The HSE and the Department of Health should initiate a procedure whereby GPs would not charge medical card holders for blood tests. A number of other issues have also arisen in GPs' surgeries. The Irish Medical Organisation has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 16. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the €3 million needed to develop donor coordinators in hospitals here will be included in the 2014 health budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48062/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 18. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the decision to exclude the first €50 per week of travel to work costs, the cost of home improvement loans and child care costs from allowance expenses for assessment for medical cards-general practitioner visit cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48063/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 25. To ask the Minister for Health the timescale for the appointment of chairpersons and board members to the new hospital groupings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48060/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (13 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: 35. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the recent statements by four large Dublin hospitals regarding the adequacy of budgets and the safety of service and statements by senior health officials that the 2014 health budget represents a €1 billion cut, his views on the adequacy and safety of the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48059/13]

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: The International Agency for Research on Cancer states that these magnetic fields are possibly carcinogenic to humans, based on consistent statistical associations of high level residential magnetic fields, with the doubling of the risk of childhood leukaemia. In view of the fact that EirGrid cannot guarantee that there are no health issues involved in this, and in view of the fact that...

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: Communities across the country are convulsed at EirGrid's proposals to erect high voltage 400 kV overhead power lines. There is huge concern, frustration and anger at the Grid25 proposal across the Munster counties of Cork, Tipperary, Waterford and the Leinster counties of Wexford, Kilkenny, Carlow and Kildare. Thousands of people have turned out at public meetings. I congratulate the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: Denmark is a good example, but only one of many, where these lines are placed underground. This is obviously technically possible and financially feasible. The closing date for submissions to EirGrid on this proposal is 26 November. I call on the Government to defer this closing date for submissions and to suspend this project pending the outcome of a comprehensive feasibility study,...

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: -----into the laying of these lines underground and under sea.

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: What we have heard from the Tánaiste is the usual EirGrid spin. The only consultation, if consultation there is, is in relation to overhead power lines. EirGrid is not prepared to consult on the issue of placing these power lines underground or under sea, which, as I said earlier, is already best international practice in this regard. There are significant health issues involved....

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: This Finance Bill implements the austerity and social vandalism of the budget. It targets low- and middle-income families, poor families, the squeezed middle, everybody from the cradle to the grave. Despite the Labour Party's strong and serious commitments that no cuts to child benefit would take place, fourth and subsequent children will have their child benefit cut by €10 from...

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: I have some specific questions relating to the sale of the Government's bank shares. Is the Tánaiste satisfied that the sale of these State shares to these vulture capitalists was above board and transparent? Is he satisfied with a situation where a senior public servant involved in the sale process and who continued to deal on behalf of the State with banks, including Bank of Ireland,...

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: I am not making any allegations. It is a fact. I ask the Tánaiste if the promised review of this situation has taken place and what has been the outcome of that review. He promised a review.

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2013)

Séamus Healy: I did not make any allegations.