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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Naval Service Vessels (3 Oct 2018)

Séamus Healy: The Minister of State has said the tendering process is in the early stages. I suggest now is the time to scrap it. He also referred to operations in the Mediterranean where Médecins Sans Frontières had been operating a ship, the MV Aquarius. It has since been stopped since it was deregistered Panama following pressure exerted by the Italian Government. Médecins Sans...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (3 Oct 2018)

Séamus Healy: 57. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the construction of the multi-role naval vessel at an estimated cost of €200 million that it has been decided will be purchased has been put out to tender; if so, if a tender has been accepted; if the purchase price or part thereof or other procurement costs of the vessel will be included in his Department's allocation in budget...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Physiotherapy Provision (3 Oct 2018)

Séamus Healy: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if the decision to withdraw physiotherapy services from a school (details supplied) will be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40206/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (27 Sep 2018)

Séamus Healy: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources, including funding and locations, will be made available for inpatient nut allergy testing for children in view of the fact that there are long waiting lists at the two centres in Cork and Crumlin, Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39184/18]

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Séamus Healy: One would not know is right. I welcome this Bill and hope it will be passed. I am calling on the Minister to withdraw his amendment to allow this Bill to be scrutinised on Committee and Report Stages. Local decisions should be made at local level, as near as possible to the people affected by them. Local government was working well. There was no need to fix it because it was not broken....

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Séamus Healy: I support the motion. The Minister should go, and he should take this Government with him. Housing is a fundamental human right and it should be enshrined in our Constitution. Families need a stable and secure long-term housing position to live, grow and develop. A Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats Government handed over the public house building programme to the private market, and...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Séamus Healy: It is important to commend the bravery and determination of Vicky Phelan and the other women involved. Without their courage, we would probably be blissfully ignorant of this scandal. I welcome the Scally report and its 50 recommendations and hope those recommendations will be implemented immediately. I also welcome the certainty of mandatory open disclosure. Dr. Scally rightly...

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (18 Sep 2018)

Séamus Healy: I confirm my support for this Private Members' motion on the future of the post office network. This issue raises the whole question of democracy in this country and the relevance of this Dáil. The motion passed here in November 2016, agreed unanimously by the House, meant - or should mean - that the post office network would be supported and improved and that, as the motion stated, "a...

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: I will be brief. I am conscious of the fact so many Deputies want to speak on this. I welcome the Bill and commend Deputy Pringle on bringing it forward. He put a lot of energy and commitment into it over a long period of time. I know there has been a lot of engagement. He has engaged with all political parties and none across the House on it. The outcome is very important legislation....

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: I wish to raise mental health services in Tipperary again. My constituency colleagues and I have raised this matter on a number of occasions since the closure of St. Michael's acute psychiatric unit in Clonmel. There are now no inpatient psychiatric beds in north or south Tipperary. Patients in north Tipperary, which was in the old Mid-Western Health Board area, must attend the unit in...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: I acknowledge the commitment and involvement of the Minister of State on this issue. He has met deputations on a number of occasions and has visited Clonmel to see the services. We have always acknowledged the policy in A Vision for Change which would transfer the majority of services on a priority basis to community services. We have never had an issue with that and have always supported...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Services (11 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: 362. To ask the Minister for Health if a separate waiting room will be made available at the emergency department at South Tipperary General Hospital for patients presenting with mental health issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31352/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Housing Rents (10 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Minister of State for the response but it is the usual Department script. We need to know why, nine years after the 2009 Act, the rent differential scheme is not yet a reserved function for local authority members. It is now four years since the introduction of the Housing Act 2014. Reserving this function for local authority members is an element of both Acts. Will the...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Housing Rents (10 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: Draconian rent increases for local authority tenants have been introduced by Tipperary County Council since 2 July. It has no regard for the effects these huge increases have on the tenants concerned. They have been introduced without the specific approval of the local councillors, on the basis that management claims the making of a differential rent scheme is a function for the manager and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (10 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: 695. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request those hospitals which have introduced an €80 charge for venesection procedures for hemochromatosis patients to cancel this charge in view of the fact that no such charge applies for dialysis and chemotherapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31016/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (10 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: 925. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the section of the Local Government Act 2014 that makes the making of a differential rent scheme a reserved function of elected local authority members will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30309/18]

Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)

Séamus Healy: I welcome this Bill, commend Deputy Wallace for bringing it forward and confirm my support for it. As a very young clerical officer in South Tipperary Council County Council in 1973, 45 years ago, I remember the publication of this report. There was widespread support for it and for its implementation. Unfortunately the Government of the day and Governments since bent to landowners and now...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: 5. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to open adult inpatient psychiatric beds in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28609/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: This raises again the need for the provision of a properly resourced, properly funded and integrated mental health service for County Tipperary with particular reference to the need to reopen adult inpatient psychiatric beds wrongly closed at St. Michael's unit in Clonmel in 2012.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: I acknowledge the interest and involvement of the Minister of State in this issue since his appointment. As he said, he met representatives of the Save Our Acute Hospital Services Committee and Oireachtas Members on two occasions in Leinster House. He has visited the services in Clonmel and met all the stakeholders involved, including mental health service management in the south east....