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Flood Relief: Statements (29 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Over ten years since the successful completion of the Clonmel flood relief scheme, householders and businesses are finding getting insurance flood cover impossible or it comes with very heavily loaded premiums. The Clonmel flood relief scheme was completed in 2013 at a cost of €44.5 million. The scheme has been completed to a one-in-100-year protection level and it protects all areas...

Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (28 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I broadly welcome the Bill, which provides a mechanism for workers to access the Social Insurance Fund where their employer has ceased trading but has not been formally wound up. The Bill addresses the 2018 Supreme Court judgment that found that Ireland did not properly or fully transpose an EU directive on the protection of employees in the event of insolvency. That was seven years ago,...

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I commend Sinn Féin on bringing it forward and I strongly support it. This Bill would be a vital first step in stopping the genocide and starvation of the Palestinian people. The Bill is fully compliant with international, European and Irish law, and is supported by the independent Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers. Its legal...

Independent External Medical Audit for Children's Health Ireland and National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh: Statements (27 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: As someone who worked for more than 21 years as a hospital administrator in a general hospital, I am lost for words to describe the mayhem which is Children's Health Ireland. The word "bewilderment" comes to mind. It is certainly shocking. The first principle of the provision of a health service is that the patient comes first. We might say that is old-fashioned but it is still 100% true....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Local government is the heartbeat of democracy. The Fine Gael–Labour Party Government abolished borough councils and town councils in 2014 and replaced them with committees that had no power, no functions and no money. I think it is already accepted by almost everybody, including the former leader of the Labour Party, Brendan Howlin, that it was a very bad decision. The programme...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (27 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 534. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE speech and language therapists based in each CDNT, based within CHO5 in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [26947/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 666. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year costs to recruit two additional WTE clinical specialist podiatrists and two additional WTE senior podiatrists for public health services. [26944/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 667. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing breakdown of each ambulance station across south Tipperary, by the number of EMTs, the number of paramedics and advanced paramedics per station, in tabular form. [26945/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 668. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric rheumatologists based at Cork University Hospital, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [26946/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: There has been no public eye care service in south Tipperary since last September. There have been no consultant ophthalmology clinics, optometry clinics or nurse-led eye clinics. Dr. Hillery, the previous consultant, retired last September, having given years of wonderful professional and personal service to the population of south Tipperary, including children and the elderly. She gave...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: We must now ask ourselves whether the State, the Government and we as a people are complicit in genocide. I acknowledge the State’s support for the South African case in the international courts, the Taoiseach’s description of Israeli action in Gaza as a “war crime”, and the statements at the weekend by the Taoiseach and other Government leaders; however, we must...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: The acid test of the bona fides of the Government on carers and caring is the immediate abolition of the carer’s allowance. This has been the demand of Family Carers Ireland for years and was promised by all political parties in the run-up to the last general election. It was understood that the means test would be abolished within the first 100 days of this Government coming into...

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I compliment the remarkable courage of Cara Darmody, a 14-year-old disability rights campaigner from my constituency. I welcome her and her dad here this evening. Cara started her campaign in support of her two brothers, who have autism diagnoses, but now she is supporting and campaigning on behalf of all children in the State with disabilities. She has been very successful to date. She...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: When is this Government going to stop failing children with disabilities? Next Tuesday, Cara Darmody, a teenage disability rights campaigner from Ardfinnan in my constituency, will start a 50-hour sleep-out in pursuit of urgent and immediate action to secure assessments of need for children with additional needs within the six-month legal limit. There are over 14,000 children on the waiting...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Government Reform (15 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will immediately establish the local democracy task force promised in the programme for Government 2025 with a view to the early re-establishment of borough and town councils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24258/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Government Reform (15 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Local government is the beating heart of democracy. It was abolished in 2014 by the Fine Gael and Labour Government. When will the Minister establish the local democracy task force promised in the programme for Government 2025 to re-establish local government?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Government Reform (15 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Minister. The town and borough councils were abolished in 2014. They were replaced by committees with no powers, functions or funding. This abolition of town and borough councils has seriously damaged towns throughout the country, including in Clonmel where we had a form of local government going back to the 1400s. This is a very serious issue. I had hoped the Minister of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (15 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the income limits to qualify for social housing as the current limits exclude a large cohort of individuals and families from both social housing and mortgage approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24261/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will amend the local authority differential rent scheme to exclude carer's allowance and carer's benefit from rent assessment under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24262/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will establish a State-sponsored housing infrastructure investment fund to provide finance for a major construction of social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24260/25]