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National Development Plan: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak to this Private Members' motion and confirm my support for it. There is no doubt that the launch of this plan was a mix of ballyhoo, spin and marketing, as was referred to by other Members. The whole situation was bizarre. We have been talking about balanced regional development for decades, but this plan has nothing to do with it. If anything, it has to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (29 May 2019)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the Minister of State's reply and thank him for the detail of it. I particularly welcome the fact that he believes this project is a priority issue for mental health services in Tipperary. The existing crisis house is not fit for purpose. It is an old building. It is particularly not fit for purpose having regard to modern psychiatry and modern standards. The construction of a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (29 May 2019)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle’s office for giving me the opportunity to raise this issue. Mental health services in Tipperary were devastated in 2012 following the closure by the then Minister of State, Kathleen Lynch, of St. Michael's inpatient unit at South Tipperary General Hospital in Clonmel. That decision left north and south Tipperary with a mental health service which was...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (14 May 2019)

Séamus Healy: 98. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if tenders for building the multi-role vessel, MRV, have been received (details supplied) in view of the fact that the 2019 budget is now in place; if so, if a tender for the building of same has been accepted; the full expected cost of same when delivered; the delivery date for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20568/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (14 May 2019)

Séamus Healy: 105. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 47 of 3 October 2018, if tenders for building the multi-role vessel have been received in view of the fact that the 2019 budget is now in place; if so, if a tender for building of the vessel has been accepted; the full cost of the vessel when delivered; the delivery date for the ship which has been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (8 May 2019)

Séamus Healy: 609. To ask the Minister for Health if pharmacy qualified assistants will be entitled to continue to provide cover for pharmacists as heretofore in view of legislative proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18408/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Apr 2019)

Séamus Healy: 301. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the shortage of the BCG vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17365/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2019)

Séamus Healy: The concern around staffing stems from the fact that the HSE has form in allowing units to be completed and then allowing them to lie vacant for quite considerable lengths of time. We have only to look at Our Lady's Hospital in Cashel, just 15 miles down the road. Some €14 million was spent on that facility, it was in pristine condition, but it has been vacant, with not a bed in it,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2019)

Séamus Healy: South Tipperary General Hospital is a success story despite swingeing cuts to budgets and staff numbers and a shortage of beds. I compliment and thank all of the staff at the hospital, from the newest recruit to senior management, who work in partnership and as a team in delivering quality hospital services under very difficult circumstances. In November 2008, in response to the HSE and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (10 Apr 2019)

Séamus Healy: 50. 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 here due to their personal circumstances and declining health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16874/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Séamus Healy: The right to housing is a human right but the Minister and the Government are treating housing as a commodity on the market, resulting in the biggest housing and homelessness crisis since the Great Famine. Bunreacht na hÉireann provides for the declaration of emergencies and I specifically refer to Articles 43.2.1° and 43.2.2° where the public good trumps private property...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Séamus Healy: Fine Gael has been in government for over eight years, and it is standing watch over more and more people becoming homeless, sleeping and dying on our streets and couch-surfing with friends and families. More and more families are fleeced by big landlords, vulture funds and cuckoo funds charging astronomical rents. The Minister has said from time to time and again today that preventing...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Séamus Healy: A whole list of matters that I have a Bill on, as the Minister knows very well.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Séamus Healy: No it is not

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Séamus Healy: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if legislation will be brought forward to declare statutorily a homeless and housing emergency in view of the homeless figures of more than 10,000 persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16664/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (9 Apr 2019)

Séamus Healy: Will the Minister bring forward legislation to declare statutorily a housing and homelessness emergency in view of the fact that homeless figures now exceed 10,000, including 3,780 children? Will he respond to the criticisms of Government housing policy by the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Leilani Farha, who said housing is stability, security, dignity...

Autism Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2019)

Séamus Healy: I commend Deputies Funchion and Ó Caoláin on bringing forward this motion. I confirm my support for it. I welcome everybody in the Gallery and salute the teachers, parents, advocates and everybody involved in autism support services. There are 14,000 students in the country with an autism diagnosis, which is a significant number. In the very short time available, I raise again a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (2 Apr 2019)

Séamus Healy: 358. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the charging of medical card holders for the taking of bloods by general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15435/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (2 Apr 2019)

Séamus Healy: 553. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of an application for a working family payment by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15003/19]

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)

Séamus Healy: With all due respect to the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, and to the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, who spoke earlier, a senior Minister is not here to address this issue. That shows an absolute lack of respect for the Dáil. It is an insult to this Dáil that the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, is not in the Chamber to address...