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Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2018)

Séamus Healy: While I thank the Tánaiste for the reply, we cannot continue to kick this can down the road. These issues must be dealt with urgently. The Tánaiste referred to recruitment. There are currently 500 psychiatric nurse vacancies in this country. The position would be much worse were it not for the tremendous work done by community and voluntary organisations across the country....

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2018)

Séamus Healy: -----not in the next budget but now, because this is something that is affecting young people on a minute by minute basis.

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2018)

Séamus Healy: Children and young people are being failed by our mental health system. For the past three months since February, young people experiencing mental health difficulties have been admitted to the paediatric ward in South Tipperary General Hospital. Today, there are three young people on the ward. There have been as many as five and their lengths of stay have been as long as eight weeks. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (26 Apr 2018)

Séamus Healy: 219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if child benefit payments will be extended to include all children in full-time education up to 22 years of age in line with the increase for qualified children paid on social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18391/18]

Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the representatives of nurses and midwives to the Public Gallery. I compliment Deputy O'Reilly on bringing forward this motion and I confirm my support for it. We all know there is a recruitment and retention crisis in the health service. We also know that nurses and midwives do invaluable work in our hospitals and health services right across the country and are absolutely...

Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)

Séamus Healy: It needs to be said again that the absence of the Ministers, Deputies Regina Doherty and Donohoe, is effectively an insult to this House and to the CE supervisors and assistant supervisors who have turned up for tonight's debate. I welcome all those who have come from all corners of the country to be here tonight. I thank them for the work they do in communities throughout the country. In...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (24 Apr 2018)

Séamus Healy: 160. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he plans to meet the trade unions representing community employment scheme supervisors and assistant supervisors regarding the introduction of a pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17983/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (17 Apr 2018)

Séamus Healy: 1346. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to reintroduce the three enrolment points to the ECCE programme in view of the fact that some children will wait an inordinately long period for enrolment due to recent changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16693/18]

Government Response to Salisbury Attack: Statements (27 Mar 2018)

Séamus Healy: I hold no brief, and nor do the Irish people, for the Russian Government, the British Government, the United States Government or indeed the Franco-German EU-NATO alliance. These big nuclear powers are looking after their own interests and the last thing on their minds is the interests of Ireland or the Irish people. All have records of total disregard for human beings and all have been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (27 Mar 2018)

Séamus Healy: 433. To ask the Minister for Health if core funding will be made available to an association (details supplied) for its helpline, its advocacy work and to support its branch structure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14076/18]

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

Séamus Healy: 434. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish nationwide Parkinson's nurse specialist service and surgical service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14077/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (27 Mar 2018)

Séamus Healy: 539. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the marking system in respect of an application for a sports capital grant by a centre (details supplied) will be clarified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14126/18]

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Séamus Healy: In the short time available to me, I wish to welcome the Bill, which provides for a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment, and confirm my support for it. I will be supporting repeal in the referendum. It is 35 years since Article 40.3.3° was enshrined in the Constitution. In 1983, I publicly opposed and voted against that amendment. I did so because I believed then, as I do now,...

Motor Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (27 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to say a few words in this debate. I acknowledge the work of the Rural Independent Group in bringing forward this motion. It is important to say that the motor insurance industry is hugely profitable but there are very serious issues within and between companies and in the industry's dealings with various categories of drivers. Allegations of anti-competitive and...

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I wish to raise again a very serious matter that I and other Members have raised previously. It relates to the procedure and process for the assessment of needs of children with disabilities. The Department of Health and the HSE are breaching the law on a daily basis in this regard. The Minister is aware that, under the Disability Act 2005, the assessment of needs must begin no later than...

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Minister. While I welcome his reply, it is very similar to one I received six months ago from the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath. The situation has certainly not improved. If anything, it has disimproved. Children in Tipperary are routinely obliged to wait up to 18 months and or two years for these assessments. I put it to the Minister that this is in breach of the...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I will wind up now. This plan must be revisited and it must be reversed. Tipperary must get its fair share of investment and it must have towns prioritised for economic growth and investment. This is, effectively, an election manifesto produced and hyped with taxpayers' money and without any legal foundation.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: Where is the N24?

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: The N24 is not a vanity project.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: On a point of order-----