Results 21-40 of 2,839 for speaker:Séamus Healy
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: Obviously, the Minister does not recognise that there is a serious homelessness crisis. The figure of 10,398 does not include a significant number of other people who are also homeless. Thousands of people couch surf. They are living at home or on relatives' couches and floors. There are additional thousands in that category alone. There is also a situation where thousands of individuals...
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: Do I not have another minute? I want to ask the Minister, and I am sure he would want to respond-----
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: -----about the procedure for homeless persons being approved as homeless by local authorities.
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: There is now a situation whereby persons who are homeless in Tipperary County Council-----
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: -----must advise the council that they are homeless, make a full housing application and wait 12 weeks to be designated as homeless.
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: Will the Minister comment on that situation because it is unbelievable?
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: If the Minister thinks it is wrong, he should instruct the local authority to do otherwise.
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: 25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will immediately fund local authorities to enable them to commence an emergency local authority house building programme of a minimum of 10,000 new builds per year on public land. [45493/19]
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: Successive Governments have not only failed to solve the housing crisis but have created a housing emergency. I ask the Minister to fund local authorities to build a minimum of 10,000 houses per year on public land as the key driver to tackle the current housing emergency.
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: The picture the Minister has painted is not the picture I or the vast majority of Deputies find in their clinics. We do not expect the Minister to solve the problem overnight but his party has been in government for eight years. What has happened since 2002 is that the public housing programme has been handed over to the private market, namely, builders, developers and landlords, and we now...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: They say 350 patients are dying on trolleys.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: I am shocked at the lack of urgency, almost indifference, the Taoiseach displays, almost as if this situation is normal. The trolley figures are absolutely obscene. We have people suffering and dying on trolleys in our hospitals. The Taoiseach is the leader of this country and has a responsibility for this obscenity, the suffering and the deaths of these people on trolleys in our hospitals...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: -----and Ennis hospital and to reopen Our Lady's Hospital Cashel, a state-of-the-art hospital which has been vacant for the past ten years.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: The Taoiseach has the responsibility to solve this problem. He can do it. The question is whether he has the political will to do it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: This situation is normal, is it?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: The Government will not tax the rich then.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: I referred to higher taxes on billionaires, who own 27.3% of all the wealth in this country. They are the 1%.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: From 2002 on, successive Governments have espoused and implemented the downgrading of hospitals and the transfer of acute hospital services to so-called centres of excellence. We all know that that policy has created chaos. It was wrong then and it is wrong now, and it should never have happened. We in south Tipperary were lucky that 15,000 people on the streets stopped the transfer of our...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: We have a moratorium on the recruitment of staff. There are 432 vacant posts for staff nurses, public health nurses and staff midwives. There are more than 500 nurse vacancies in mental health services. I know three nursing posts have been vacant for the past six months in south Tipperary mental health services, child and adolescent mental health services-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)
Séamus Healy: -----and mental health services in the accident and emergency department in Clonmel. Is it now time to accept that the policy of downgrading hospitals has failed and that the policy should be reversed? Is it not time to agree to the reopening of the accident and emergency department in Ennis and Nenagh?