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

Séamus Healy: The representatives of the Save Our Acute Hospital Services Committee have met mental health service management on three occasions. On the most recent occasion, they accepted that there is a need for additional beds in the area and that south Tipperary has a strong case. They also indicated that the Minister of State's involvement at a future meeting would be helpful and I ask again if he...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Data (28 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: 94. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of occasions on which a Naval Service vessel participating in Operation Sophia in the Mediterranean Sea transferred migrants and refugees from an Irish vessel to another vessel at sea; the number transferred in each case; the national designation of the ship to which they were transferred in each case; the port at which the...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach is right about one thing anyway: what is happening is terrible. The detention centres, torture, rape and violation of human rights in these camps and detention centres in Libya are unacceptable. The United Nations, Amnesty International and Médecins sans Frontières all say that the Taoiseach, his Government and the EU are colluding in torture, rape and gross abuse of...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: The UNHCR said it.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: Since Operation Pontus in the Mediterranean became Operation Sophia, the number of refugees landing in Italy has more than halved. For a considerable time, there has been serious concern that the price that the EU and Ireland are prepared to pay for stemming migration is the gross abuse of the human rights of migrants. The Irish office of Amnesty International has stated, "The Libyan...

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: The Deputy-----

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the summer economic statement. The document produced by the Minister is absolutely out of touch with reality. It promises more of the same. It balances the books and promises more crises in the health service, a continuation of the emergency in housing and a continuation of the underfunding and under-resourcing in education. It promises to continue...

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: I commend Deputy O'Reilly of Sinn Féin for proposing the motion. The motion and the whole waiting lists scandal emphasises again the dysfunctional nature of the HSE and the fact that it is not fit for purpose. There is absolutely no democratic control of the HSE. It should never have been established. Many of us who voted against its establishment warned of situations just like this...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (14 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: 50. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of occasions on which a Naval Service vessel participating in Operation Sophia in the Mediterranean Sea docked at an Italian port since 25 July 2017; the number of occasions on which migrants and refugees have been put ashore at an Italian port directly by an Irish vessel participating in Operation Sophia since the same date; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (12 Jun 2018)

Séamus Healy: 865. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an assessment of needs for a child (details supplied) at HSE south Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25449/18]

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: I am sharing time with Deputy Catherine Murphy. I welcome the Bill and confirm my support for it. The measures included in it would certainly be helpful to the hundreds of thousands of people who are privately renting at the moment. The measures are reasonable, common-sense and fair. They are not groundbreaking and will not solve the housing crisis but they will certainly be helpful to...

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: The Labour Party is directly responsible for the current housing emergency. It was in government from 2011 to 2016 and held both junior and senior Ministries in housing during that period. In the coalition with Fine Gael, Labour Party Deputies could have ensured the building of large-scale public housing by local authorities-----

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: -----but they chose not to. Shame on them for that. Their predecessors, Labour Party Ministers in the past, built thousands upon thousands of houses. This Labour Party could have done the same but chose to abandon that approach and to embrace the market.

Residential Tenancies (Greater Security of Tenure and Rent Certainty) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: It embraced privatisation and now we have what we knew we would have, namely, a disastrous housing situation leaving 10,000 people homeless. Deputy Kelly as Minister told us he could not do anything about rent certainty because of the Constitution. Deputy Jan O'Sullivan introduced the outrageous HAP scheme, a bonanza for landlords and desperate for families that have not got two ha'pennies...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: I welcome this Bill and commend Deputies Ó Broin and Funchion on bringing it forward. I thank the students, particularly those in DCU and in Galway, who first brought this to public attention. There is no doubt that the objective of this Bill to include student tenancies under the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 giving them access to rent pressure...

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (29 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: With the minute available to me, I commend and thank each and every member of the Tipperary Together for Yes group. They organised the campaign in Tipperary brilliantly. They brought commitment, courage, energy and enthusiasm to that campaign and as one who campaigned against and voted against the amendment in 1983, I welcome the resounding success. I would like to see the legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (29 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: 258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to restore and increase the capitation grants to primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23591/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Courses Availability (29 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the courses that are available at the LIT campus, Clonmel for the coming academic year; the courses that have been withdrawn from LIT Campus, Clonmel for the coming academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23596/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (29 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will restore the SNA position and hours for a school (details supplied) and the ASD unit in the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23597/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (22 May 2018)

Séamus Healy: 372. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to the Jigsaw project in County Tipperary to provide an appropriate early intervention mental health service for the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22196/18]