Results 261-280 of 2,839 for speaker:Séamus Healy

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

Séamus Healy: Is the Minister stating that the N24 motorway is a vanity project?

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

Séamus Healy: Is the Minister stating that every Tipperary town should be excluded from this plan?

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

Séamus Healy: County Tipperary has been snubbed in this national development plan. It is a county with a population of approximately 160,000 and is the sixth largest county by area in the country and the second largest in the southern region. In its submission and contribution to the plan, Tipperary County Council sought to ensure that the county plays an important and central part in the future of...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (20 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: 107. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 26 October 2017, the estimated cost of the proposed additional multi-role vessel (MRV) for the Naval Service in view of the fact members of the Defence Forces travelled to New Zealand recently to examine similar vessels; if the estimate includes purchase of helicopters for use on the flight deck of...

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I compliment Deputy Pearse Doherty and Sinn Féin on bringing forward the Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018. I support its passage through the House. I support any measure which would help put manners on the banks. Light-touch regulation means no regulation, as we have seen through the years. Senior bankers have no moral compass and simply cannot be trusted. The banks have a 30 year...

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I ask the Minister to accede to the request to meet a deputation from Tipperary.

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the motion, which I will support. I will also support the Sinn Féin amendment. It is fine for Deputies living in Dublin and other major cities but if they had to drive around rural constituencies every week, as rural Deputies must, they would find that local and regional roads are in an atrocious condition. It is barely possible to drive on many of them and the rural bus...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (13 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: 436. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for an assessment of needs for a person (details supplied) at HSE south Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7311/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Transport Support Scheme (8 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: 203. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the approval of a new motorised transport scheme and mobility allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6549/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: 5. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to end the unequal remuneration of new entrants in the teaching profession as a key step in addressing shortages of teaching staff; his further plans to end the teaching shortage; if all such measures have been agreed with the teaching unions concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4981/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: All education stakeholders now acknowledge there is an unprecedented crisis in recruitment and retention of teachers. In fact, today at lunchtime, 15,000 members of the Teachers Union of Ireland in schools and colleges throughout the country will protest outside their workplaces demanding a change in Government policy. My question asks the Minister to face up to this crisis and to put...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: The number of applicants for the postgraduate courses which enable graduates to qualify to become second level teachers has fallen from 2,842 in 2011 to 1,068 last year. That means the number of applicants is now substantially less than half of what it was five years ago - in fact, there has been a collapse of 62% over that period. It is clear that a career as a teacher no longer has the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: A panel is urgently needed to deal with this matter. The situation at third level is also significantly difficult and there has been a 32% increase in student numbers, a 10% reduction in staff and, not surprisingly, lecturing staff have an increased workload over and above their European colleagues.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: This is damaging and restricting the contribution of institutes to the country.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: The Minister's reply reminds me of that old adage: everybody is wrong except my Johnny. The ETBs, the Association of Community and Comprehensive Schools, the joint managerial bodies, the trade unions and everybody else have acknowledged there is a significant crisis in recruitment and retention of teachers and it is getting worse. The suggestion that restricting career breaks would help is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: I am again calling on the Minister to put in place real measures, including pay parity and a panel-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Feb 2018)

Séamus Healy: -----to deal with this crisis that is not just immediate but is staring us in the face.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (30 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: 127. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 26 October 2017, the estimated cost of the additional multi-role vessel that is proposed for purchase for the Naval Service; if a decision to put the provision of the MRV out to tender has been taken in view of a news report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4263/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: 411. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the shortage of the BCG vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3299/18]

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: In 2010, the Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government and the HSE decided to close the 50 bed acute psychiatric unit for inpatients at St. Michael's unit, South Tipperary General Hospital in Clonmel. The unit catered for patients suffering from mental illness from all over County Tipperary. There was no consultation whatsoever with stakeholders about the decision. The first patients, family...