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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Accommodation Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Séamus Healy: When is the Minister of State going to-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Accommodation Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Séamus Healy: How much?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Accommodation Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Séamus Healy: What about the staff?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Accommodation Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Séamus Healy: There is annoyance, frustration and growing anger at the delay in the completion and opening of the 40-bed modular unit at South Tipperary General Hospital. The Minister promised that it would be opened in June 2018 but the date was pushed back to September, then December, then March and finally July. The Save Our Acute Hospitals Services Committee and Oireachtas Members met hospital...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2019)

Séamus Healy: Carers do a tremendous job day in, day out across the country. According to census figures, there are 195,263 carers, of whom 118,000 are women and 3,800 are under the age of 15. They provide 6,608,515 care hours each week. Women provide more than two thirds of the care and young carers under the age of 15 provide 2.2 million care hours each year. They provide 24-hour care for some of our...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2019)

Séamus Healy: I am not sure from what hymn sheet the Taoiseach is singing but his comments are pie in the sky and completely out of touch with reality. If he were to telephone the carer's allowance section of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, he would be told that the current waiting period is 17 weeks. That is worse than was the case six months ago. In June of last year we...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Transport Support Scheme (23 Jan 2019)

Séamus Healy: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the reintroduction of the motorised transport grant and mobility allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3200/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (22 Jan 2019)

Séamus Healy: 106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the case of a person (details supplied) with a view to returning them to their family due to their personal circumstances and declining health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2878/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Medical Waste Disposal (22 Jan 2019)

Séamus Healy: 517. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the introduction of the grant towards the cost of pay-by-weight charges for households with a vulnerable person with long-term medical incontinence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2788/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (15 Jan 2019)

Séamus Healy: 577. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment of needs will be arranged for a child (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54232/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (15 Jan 2019)

Séamus Healy: 603. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be approved for the provision of specialised autism specific services for persons (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54317/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (18 Dec 2018)

Séamus Healy: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary for urgent funding to build additional ASD classrooms to facilitate children on the autism spectrum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53222/18]

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Séamus Healy: It is 48% this year.

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Séamus Healy: The Minister of State addressed me so I am------

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Séamus Healy: The credit unions-----

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Anti-Evictions Bill 2018. I commend Solidarity-People Before Profit on bringing it forward and confirm my support for it. This is one of a number of Bills and numerous Private Members' motions that have been before the House in recent years. Hardly a week has gone by in the past two and a half years without some housing issue being on the agenda....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (4 Dec 2018)

Séamus Healy: 224. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the difficulty in identifying an agency to monitor community CCTV systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50256/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2018)

Séamus Healy: What we have just heard is simply propaganda for the rich and powerful. It is an excuse to allow the rich and powerful - people who have massive incomes and assets - pay little or no taxation and certainly not their fair share. The budget was for the super-rich. It was unequal. For example, 1.8 million workers are on incomes of less than €30,000. That is 40% of the workforce, and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2018)

Séamus Healy: It is the Government's duty to ensure that there is equity in taxation and that the wealthy are made to pay their fair share.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2018)

Séamus Healy: They are not doing so and the Government is allowing that to happen.