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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits by industrialists to south Tipperary in 2012, facilitated by his Department and the various job development agencies; the number of visits specifically targeted at vacant advance factories and vacant private facilities in 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9406/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: Our first thoughts this evening are with the 245 staff in Abbott in Clonmel who have just heard the devastating news of job losses this afternoon. I ask the Minister to intervene personally to ensure the staff affected get a good financial package, the required training and upskilling to enable them to take up future employment, to intervene with the company - which is a large one that has a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: I reiterate the need for a task force for south Tipperary. Unemployment figures for the county are significant and have almost trebled in recent years. The number unemployed in Clonmel has increased from 1,068 to 2,907. In Carrick-on-Suir, which has a population of approximately 6,000, there are 2,007 unemployed. The number unemployed in Tipperary Town, which is a similar size, has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: -----and the number unemployed in Cashel is 1,196. In view of those figures, today's job losses in Abbott, the closure of Kickham Barracks and other closures, I ask the Minister to consider establishing a task force for the area.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: He will not take it off the rich anyway.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: Unfortunately reviews always mean reductions.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: I am not. Medical cards and SUSI were complete disasters.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: Absolutely, or in the opposite direction.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister could close the road from Clonmel to Kilkenny if he wishes. Too many things have gone in that direction recently.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To Kilkenny from Clonmel, such as the barracks and our acute psychiatric unit.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister is not doing it.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: No, the 595,000-----

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister will not tax them.

Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Bill provides for more taxation, pure and simple. It is additional taxation for almost every household in the country, effectively targeting lower and middle-income families once again. The AA has stated:There is no way to dress it up: the car tax increase announced today will push up the cost of living for car owners affecting almost every household in the country... However for the...

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: This Finance Bill continues the programme of austerity the Government has embraced since it came to power, having promised and committed otherwise during the general election campaign. It targets low and middle-income families, is deeply unjust and regressive and deepens the divide in Irish society. It is important to remember what this austerity means in practice. I have to hand recent...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (21 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the recent resignation of a senior official (details supplied) who was head of Shareholder Management Unit, in his Department, to take up a senior position at Bank of Ireland and his possession of vital up to date information which might be of advantage to the now privately owned Bank of Ireland and its north American investor, the fact that the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (19 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the position of Credit Union Investments in the Irish Bank Resolutions Corporation and if these investments will be repaid in full, particularly since these investment bonds offered 100% capital security through an eight year three months fixed term deposit facility due to mature in September 2013; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that there will be sufficient medical intern places for graduates of medical schools here available in hospitals from July 2013 as recommended in various reports including the Fottrell Report 2006, the NCMET Report and the Second Interim Report on the Implementation of the Reform of the Intern Year, April 2012; and if he will make a statement...

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: This is not the debt of the people but a private debt which has been placed on the shoulders of our children and grandchildren. IBRC may be gone but the debt has not. It has also been turned into a €64 billion debt rather than a €35 billion debt. The Government claims it has saved significant amounts of money on this debt. Going into the last general election, the Labour...

Magdalen Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Feb 2013)

Séamus Healy: To a large extent the report confirms what we knew already, and what we knew was that approximately 10,000 women entered these Magdalen laundries from the time of the foundation of the State up to 1996 when the last one closed. We know that the State was involved in almost every aspect of the life of these laundries. For instance, there is evidence that it was involved in the routes by...