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Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: The situation at the department of psychiatry at St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny is outrageous, disgraceful and unacceptable. As the Minister is aware, there has been a cluster of unexplained deaths associated with the unit. Tipperary patients are suffering delayed admissions due to the overcrowding as well as inappropriate early discharges. Travel and visiting difficulties make it...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important issue. First, I want to confirm my support for the holding of a referendum, my support for the recommendations of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution and my support for the repeal of the eighth amendment. I wish to thank the members of the Citizens' Assembly, the joint committee and all those who have made...

Section 39 Agency Staff Reimbursements: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: I have been a trade unionist from the very first day I went to work, which was summer work in Clonmel Foods in Clonmel. I joined the Irish Transport and General Workers Union as it was then. I then moved to work in Bulmers where I became a member of the Federation of Rural Workers. Following that, I moved to a leather factory where I became a member of the Amalgamated Transport and General...

Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: I support this Private Members' motion on hospital trolleys. I also welcome the approval for the 40-bed modular unit for South Tipperary General Hospital announced last year. That unit is expected to be up and running before the end of autumn 2018. The county lost 90 beds in various cutbacks, including 50 beds when St. Vincent's hospital in Tipperary town was closed. We need another 50...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: Ar an gcéad dul síos ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an Aire Stáit as ucht a bheith anseo anocht chun an rún seo a fhreagairt. Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil chomh maith leis an mbord bainistíochta – na tuismitheoirí, na múinteoirí agus le foireann uilig na gaelscoile i gCluain Meala as ucht an tsár-oibre...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Minister of State for her response, although we were aware of most of the points made. This has been a long-delayed project. I again ask the Minister of State to ensure the project is in the capital programme to be announced shortly and that it is funded for construction to commence in this year. It has been a long and tortuous process over the last 23 years. It had been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: 456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of a new school building; and if confirmation that funding will be included in the upcoming capital programme for a school (details supplied). [1930/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (16 Jan 2018)

Séamus Healy: 1667. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reverse the 2012 changes to the State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1794/18]

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: Section 38 is not agreed to.

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: Section 39 is not agreed to.

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: It is not agreed to.

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: The Bill makes major and disadvantageous changes to trade union and industrial relations procedures. Effectively, the Government is introducing by law punishments for unions and individuals that take a different view from their employers. That is outrageous. The silence of the leadership of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions is absolutely deafening. This legislation sets an extraordinary...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: I am speaking in opposition to this section. There are significant punitive and draconian measures included in the Bill which are disproportionate and without precedent. They include the freezing of increments for three years and a nine-month delay in pay restoration. There is also the unequal two-tier system of payment for public servants, which affects in particular those employed after 1...

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: I too oppose this proposal. It is very clear that there is an attempt to bulldoze this through the Oireachtas and bounce us into PESCO, which is effectively a militarised Europe. This issue was initially raised on 14 November. It was cleared by the Cabinet on 21 November. However, it was never raised at the Business Committee which sets the agenda for the House, usually two weeks in...

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: I too wish to oppose the Chief Whip's proposal on this matter. It is an attempt to rush the matter through the House and present the public with a fait accompli. Although obviously an issue for the House, as I said yesterday it is not just an issue for the House. It is also an issue for the public. There needs to be full public debate, discussion and scrutiny on the issue which cannot be...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: A series of important amendments have been ruled out of order, which makes a complete nonsense of the Oireachtas. The rule which states Members may not submit amendments which might effect an increase, or even a decrease, in the financial charge on the Exchequer is extraordinary and should be reviewed. In fact, it should be taken out altogether because it inhibits reasonable, proper and...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: The response from the Minister of State is incredible. He dealt with none of the issues raised by any speakers nor any of the queries about Ministers who, in recent years, declared the emergency over. He did not address wealth in this country, the reduction in pensions, the increase in pension contributions, which is in effect a cut in pay, or the pay apartheid introduced by the Government....

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: That is because the Government wants to pay for PESCO.

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No.1:In page 8, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:“(3) Subsection (2) of section 12 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2013 is repealed.”. There is significant opposition among trade unionists and trade unions to this anti-trade union legislation. The punitive and draconian consequences mapped out in the Bill are...

Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)

Séamus Healy: There needs to be a public debate.