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Written Answers — Department of Health: Motorised Transport Grant (18 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: 290. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reintroduction of the motorised transport grant and mobility allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53555/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (17 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: 372. To ask the Minister for Health if an over 70s medical card will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52789/19]

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak in support of this Bill and to confirm that I will be voting in favour of it. The provisions of this Bill are quite similar to those in legislation - the Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill - I sponsored over 12 months ago. Both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil voted against that legislation. I welcome the road-to-Damascus conversion of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (10 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: 329. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding medical card applicants in receipt of disability allowance and who also have earnings from employment; if the requirement to provide a letter that states the employment is of a rehabilitative nature will be removed as is the case with the disability allowance section; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51193/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (10 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: 346. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding medical card applicants who are in receipt of disability allowance and also have earnings from employment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51256/19]

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: I have spoken about this issue in the Chamber on numerous occasions over recent years. I have presented a whole range of solutions to the housing and homelessness emergency that we have. I have supported a range of solutions put forward by other Opposition parties and individuals. I have produced my own Bill, the Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018, which was voted...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (5 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: "Live horse and you'll get grass" comes to mind. The Minister burying her head in the sand and saying that everything is fine and that everything will be fine is madness. It is not sustainable. It breaks the social contract between the State and its citizens and it is already creating serious difficulties. It will create much more serious difficulties in the future unless it is stopped....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (5 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: I have been nominated by myself. This Government is, as we all know, presiding over a housing and homelessness emergency. This is no accident or error. It is the result of a deliberate policy of this Government and previous Governments and commenced by a Fianna Fáil Government. The policy sees housing as a profit-making commodity and sees the market as the solution to this emergency....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (5 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: -----costing €1,132 in rent per month.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (5 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: The corresponding mortgage on that property would be €838.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (5 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: When will the Government accept that its housing policy is an abject failure-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (5 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: -----and when will it deal with the issues I have raised?

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Séamus Healy: I support this motion of no confidence in the Minister. He is presiding over a housing and homelessness emergency. This is no accident and no error, but the result of deliberate policy pursued by this Government and previous Governments. This policy sees housing as a commodity and the market as a solution to the housing and homelessness crisis. That policy has failed, was always going to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (28 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: 139. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be approved for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49466/19]

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Sláinte), 2019: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Health) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: I am sharing my time with Deputies Eamon Ryan and Shortall. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I confirm my support for it. It is particularly important when we think of its background, including the chaos in our health services, the overcrowding, long waiting lists, the lack of mental health services, dysfunctional disability services and, of course, the two-tier health...

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: The health service is in chaos and crisis, whether it be the hundreds of thousands of people who are waiting to be seen as outpatients, those on inpatient waiting lists, the 100,000 people who have been on trolleys to date this year or the 300 elderly patients who will die unnecessarily this year on trolleys in our overcrowded hospitals. I raised this matter with the Taoiseach recently on...

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Bill. I also welcome the measures contained in the Bill such as the Christmas bonus, the increase in the living alone allowance, the 35,000 hot meals to be provided for school children and other similar provdisions. What is contained in a Bill, however, is not always what is most important and this Bill is a classic example. What is not included in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (12 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the retention of a second teacher at a school (details supplied) will be approved in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46539/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (12 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: 334. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46185/19]

Illegal Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak to this very important motion and commend Deputy Curran for bringing it forward. I support both it and the Sinn Féin amendment. There is no doubt that drugs are to be found in every town and village across the country. I hesitate to say this in case there might be an inference that it is normal or acceptable. Of course, it is not and it is being...