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- Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion [Private Members] (12 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on this Private Members' motion. I make no excuse to Deputy Lyons or anybody else for saying this Government does not care. The fact is that if this Government cared, it would stop destroying jobs and creating unemployment in this country. The first thing it would do is to stop the destruction of jobs in the public service, where 30,000 jobs...
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: Lack of heating kills 1,200 people in this country every year. That shocking fact was disclosed yesterday at a fuel poverty conference in Dublin. On top of that and despite the trebling of grant aid from St. Vincent de Paul-----
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: I am going there, a Cheann Comhairle. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has trebled its support to elderly people who are in need of heating from €3.8 million in 2008 to €10.4 million last year. I ask the Taoiseach to take the opportunity presented by the fact that the Finance Bill is before the House this week-----
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: -----to reverse the cuts to the free fuels------
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: -----and electricity scheme.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (12 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement without delay the provision of an Anomaly Scan at 20 weeks duration of pregnancy for all pregnant women in Ireland as part of the routine ante-natal screening process in accordance with best international practice; if he will make this provision available in public maternity hospitals throughout the State; and if he will make a statement on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: Are occupational therapists or physiotherapists in place in Waterford?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: My concern is the same as the Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: I ask Mr. O'Brien to address my question on consultations with stakeholders.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: I asked about consultations generally, not just the generalisation of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: Have all the orthopaedic consultant posts at Waterford Regional Hospital been filled?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Service Executive Service Plan 2013: Discussion with HSE (7 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: I welcome the HSE staff to this meeting. Mr. O'Brien has outlined the figures fairly clearly and we see there has been a reduction of €3.3 billion or 22% in the health budget in recent years. Approximately 10,000 staff have left the health service already. This year there will be a further cut of €721 million to the budget and a net reduction, if I am correct, of around 3,000...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: I most certainly did.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: I said the Bill was guillotined which did not give public representatives any opportunity to debate ---
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: There is no doubt in my mind but that this so-called local property tax is no such thing. It is solely a family home tax. I remind the Minister that, while in opposition, the Taoiseach told us that any attempt to tax the family home would be unfair. He may also have called it immoral. If I am not mistaken, the Minister made a similar comment while in opposition. This family home tax...
- Health Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: The private health insurance industry is in crisis. As Members are aware, almost 70,000 people have left the sector in the past 12 months, having been simply unable to afford the premia, which have been pushed up year after year by huge levels of inflation. The latter have been far in advance of the normal rates of inflation and far above health sector inflation. Young people simply are...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Household Benefits Scheme (5 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: Elderly people have been targeted with significant and savage cutbacks in recent budgets. These various schemes pertaining to heating units, free fuel, mobility allowance, respite care grant and so on are the little things that made life bearable for elderly people. They are the very things that Margaret Thatcher targeted when she came to power in England and, unfortunately, it now appears...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Household Benefits Scheme (5 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: As she has the money, I ask her to please restore these benefits to elderly people.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Household Benefits Scheme (5 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: I am sure they do.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Household Benefits Scheme (5 Mar 2013)
Séamus Healy: They also face the highest costs in Europe.