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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2025)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Tánaiste for the reply. The local training initiative is a valuable service that has been in existence for more than 20 years. It provides a leaving certificate qualification over two academic years for students or trainees who are not suitable for mainstream education. It provides modules on subjects such as computers, communications, work experience and mathematics. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2025)

Séamus Healy: The local training initiatives, LTIs, run by Tipperary Education and Training Board, ETB, at Spafield family resource centre in Cashel, Knockanrawley centre in Tipperary town, the Cahir Development Association facility in Cahir and the Littleton community centre, have been abolished. This has an impact on the most vulnerable people in our society. This is unconscionable and wholly...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the motion from the Social Democrats. It is very important and opportune. Families across the country are struggling to make ends meet. The cost-of-living crisis is an ongoing crisis that is no longer temporary or once-off. Everything is going in one direction, which is up. This includes food prices, energy prices, rents, mortgages and transport. Energy prices, for instance,...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Séamus Healy: The student fees issue shows how out of touch the Government is and how unfair it is to students and parents alike. Third level education should and must be available and affordable to all. Students and their parents have to plan financially for the coming academic year and are surely entitled to know the costs involved. The failure of the Taoiseach, Tánaiste, Ministers for Finance,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Séamus Healy: Local government is the beating heart of democracy. That heart was torn out of democracy with the abolition of town and borough councils in 2014. They were replaced by committees with no powers, functions or funding. This has done serious damage to towns across the country. I welcome the recent announcement regarding a local government task force but there is widespread concern about its...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Séamus Healy: Local government is the beating heart of democracy. That heart was torn out of democracy with the abolition of town and borough councils in 2014. They were replaced by committees with no powers, functions or funding. This has done serious damage to towns across the country. I welcome the recent announcement regarding a local government task force but there is widespread concern about its...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Staff (24 Jun 2025)

Séamus Healy: 728. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of WTE ICT data specialists employed by her Department in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [34200/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Jun 2025)

Séamus Healy: 841. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychologists, by grade, based at Carrick-On-Suir primary care centre in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [34194/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Jun 2025)

Séamus Healy: 842. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinical nurse specialists working in the urodynamics department of Cork University Hospital in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [34195/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Jun 2025)

Séamus Healy: 843. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE radiographers, by grade, working in Tipperary University Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [34196/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Jun 2025)

Séamus Healy: 844. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE social workers in place in CHO5 older persons services in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [34197/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Jun 2025)

Séamus Healy: 845. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE public health nurses based at Cahir primary care centre in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [34198/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff (24 Jun 2025)

Séamus Healy: 971. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of WTE ICT data specialists employed by his Department in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [34199/25]

Flood Relief: Statements (29 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Over ten years since the successful completion of the Clonmel flood relief scheme, householders and businesses are finding getting insurance flood cover impossible or it comes with very heavily loaded premiums. The Clonmel flood relief scheme was completed in 2013 at a cost of €44.5 million. The scheme has been completed to a one-in-100-year protection level and it protects all areas...

Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (28 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I broadly welcome the Bill, which provides a mechanism for workers to access the Social Insurance Fund where their employer has ceased trading but has not been formally wound up. The Bill addresses the 2018 Supreme Court judgment that found that Ireland did not properly or fully transpose an EU directive on the protection of employees in the event of insolvency. That was seven years ago,...

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I commend Sinn Féin on bringing it forward and I strongly support it. This Bill would be a vital first step in stopping the genocide and starvation of the Palestinian people. The Bill is fully compliant with international, European and Irish law, and is supported by the independent Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers. Its legal...

Independent External Medical Audit for Children's Health Ireland and National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh: Statements (27 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: As someone who worked for more than 21 years as a hospital administrator in a general hospital, I am lost for words to describe the mayhem which is Children's Health Ireland. The word "bewilderment" comes to mind. It is certainly shocking. The first principle of the provision of a health service is that the patient comes first. We might say that is old-fashioned but it is still 100% true....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: Local government is the heartbeat of democracy. The Fine Gael–Labour Party Government abolished borough councils and town councils in 2014 and replaced them with committees that had no power, no functions and no money. I think it is already accepted by almost everybody, including the former leader of the Labour Party, Brendan Howlin, that it was a very bad decision. The programme...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (27 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 534. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE speech and language therapists based in each CDNT, based within CHO5 in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [26947/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 May 2025)

Séamus Healy: 666. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year costs to recruit two additional WTE clinical specialist podiatrists and two additional WTE senior podiatrists for public health services. [26944/25]