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Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Séamus Healy: I wish to make a point of order.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Séamus Healy: It relates to the amendments being ruled out of order. Three of my amendments were ruled out of order. I do not understand why. I got a letter from the Ceann Comhairle on the matter but it does not explain why they were ruled out of order.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Séamus Healy: I do not accept that they are out of order. The whole Dáil has accepted that there should be a referendum to put water and water infrastructure into the Constitution to ensure that it remains in public ownership. To rule that out of order is unacceptable and is a slight on the House. It should be part and parcel of this legislation. I put down an amendment to abolish Irish Water....

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

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Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Séamus Healy: This is total inorder or unorder or whatever the Leas-Cheann Comhairle wants to call it.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Séamus Healy: These are real issues. These are the issues on which Deputies in this House were elected at the last election and we are being stopped from discussing them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Nov 2017)

Séamus Healy: 799. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the position regarding a urology appointment at University Hospital Waterford for a person (details supplied); if this person qualifies for treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46760/17]

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Séamus Healy: At lunchtime, the so-called Independent Alliance, including the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, and the Ministers of State, Deputies Finian McGrath and Halligan, stated that a criminal investigation was needed into the banks at the centre of the tracker mortgage controversy. They also stated:The allegations of fraud which have been made more than merit a top-level...

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Séamus Healy: They are not here. They have gone into hiding. They have run away and abandoned the people who have been devastated by the banks in this tracker mortgage scandal. Obviously, the Taoiseach has put it up to them and they have backed down. Shame on the Independent Alliance. Shame on the Minister, Deputy Ross, and the Ministers of State, Deputies Halligan and Finian McGrath. During...

Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2017)

Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach said the Central Bank has been in contact with the Garda but he knows that no formal complaint has been made either by the Central Bank or the Taoiseach, who is quite entitled to make a complaint. The banks have a 30-year history of scandal after scandal and have been rewarded for that. The public was forced to bail them out to the tune of €64 billion and citizens have...

Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2017)

Séamus Healy: Has it made a formal complaint?

Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2017)

Séamus Healy: Has a formal complaint been made?

Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2017)

Séamus Healy: Has the Central Bank made a formal complaint?

Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2017)

Séamus Healy: Has the Taoiseach made a formal complaint? It is open to him to so do.

Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2017)

Séamus Healy: During Leaders' Questions on 5 April this year I raised the issue of the tracker mortgage fraud with the then Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, and I told him what has been appearing in the media in recent weeks. I did not have a whistleblower within the banking system but, rather, a healthy suspicion of senior bankers backed up by 30 years of banking scandals and rip-offs such as the DIRT...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to respond to the debate and in particular to address the amendments tabled by the Government of Fine Gael, the Independent Alliance, Fianna Fáil and the Labour Party. It is important to note that none of the amendments challenges the fundamental principle of the motion. Therefore, it is very clear it is totally within the law to bring forward measures which,...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017)

Séamus Healy: I move:“That Dáil Éireann:notes that:— Article 40.3.1° of the Constitution of Ireland states that the State guarantees in its laws to respect and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate the personal rights of the citizen; — Article 40.3.2° of the Constitution of Ireland states that the State shall, in particular, by its laws...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services (19 Oct 2017)

Séamus Healy: 230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the frequent unannounced cancellation of trains on the Waterford to Limerick line will be stopped in view of the fact this is undermining the credibility of the service and is being used by Iarnród Éireann as a reason for proposing the closure of this railway line; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44413/17]

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Séamus Healy: I express my sympathy to the families of the three people who so tragically lost their lives yesterday, each of them very well regarded in their own local communities. Claire O'Neill from Aglish in County Waterford, not far from the Tipperary border, was a cancer support co-ordinator. Fintan Goss from County Louth was a father of two and very much involved in St. Patrick's, his local GAA...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Agencies Staff Recruitment (17 Oct 2017)

Séamus Healy: 502. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the appointment of members to fill the vacancies on the council of Gaisce, the President’s award, in view of the fact that the original advertisement stated that three of the seven vacant positions were only until February 2018; if this is still the case in view of the fact that the positions are still vacant; if all...