I welcome and support this legislation and thank Deputy Coppinger for bringing it forward. This Bill is about human rights for a small percentage of people. It is deeply disappointing - in fact, it is shocking - that the Minister and the Government are opposing this legislation. The Minister used a very poor excuse. I believe it is disingenuous because, as the Minister well knows, if he had difficulties with this Bil…
TDs / Seamus Healy
Seamus Healy
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102
questions asked
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69,402
words spoken in the chamber
Across 297 contributions
338
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44
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Questions asked 102 in all
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Contributions to debates 297 in all
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| January 2025 | 0 | 1 |
| February 2025 | 2 | 25 |
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| April 2025 | 0 | 12 |
| May 2025 | 10 | 32 |
| June 2025 | 7 | 0 |
| July 2025 | 0 | 5 |
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| June 2026 | 6 | 22 |
| July 2026 | 7 | 3 |
| August 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 15 | 26 |
| October 2026 | 4 | 23 |
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- constituency Tipperary South 29 November 2024 to now
- party Independent 29 November 2024 to now
There were two referendums.
There were two referendums.
Two referendums decided the triple lock.
It is not true.
Respect the rest of us.
Take a minute back.
Take an extra minute.
Irish neutrality and the triple lock are the property of the Irish people. They are not the property of any individual Taoiseach, Tánaiste, Minister or political party. Any proposed change must be put to the Irish people. The triple lock has already been endorsed by the Irish people in two sovereign referendums.
These were the second referendums on both the Nice and Lisbon treaties, and it has been acknowledged in t…
-----or whether they going to stand up for neutrality and for the triple lock, which is a core value for Fianna Fáil. This is a watershed moment for Fianna Fáil tonight.
Fianna Fáil history.
The people have spoken already. They have said it twice.
Twice.
The current income limits for council housing are completely outdated. They are too low and they need to be increased urgently. These low limits have the effect of locking large numbers of low and middle income families out of both public housing and of private home ownership. Families do not qualify for council housing or for the housing assistance payment nor do they qualify for a mortgage, so they are condemned to…
I address the question of vacancy and dereliction and the derelict properties tax. This tax has now been pushed out for almost another two years until June 2028. That is much too long and should be shortened during the passage of the legislation. There may of course be a case for a single property owner in difficult circumstances but there is no case to be made for large property owners, some with multiple derelict p…
I express my condolences to the English family, their relatives and friends and to the Birchwood community in Waterford arising from the awful events last week. I hope that the two children still in hospital will recover quickly and go home safely.
I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this very timely and detailed motion. I also thank the Minister for accepting it. It is important that there is cross-party support…
Some 700,000 houses depend on home heating oil to heat their homes for their families. The cost of a fill of home heating oil has increased by €700 since January. In September, home heating oil prices had increased by 58.6% compared with the same month last year. They are astronomical increases, particularly at time when families are devastated by a cost-of-living crisis. Budget 2027 last week, in the teeth of those …
Clonmel Garda station caters for the town of Clonmel, which has a population of approximately 20,000 people, and a hinterland, including Fethard, Mullinahone, Kilsheelan, Lisronagh and Clerihan, which has a population of approximately another 20,000 people. The station is significantly understaffed. Official Garda statistics show that the 2024 complement of gardaí at Clonmel was 64. They also show that the 2026 compl…
There is not enough gardaí for it.
He arranged a meeting-----
It was a meeting arranged that was promised before the summer break.
The cost-of-living crisis is having the greatest impact on middle-income families, low-income families and social welfare recipients, and budget 2027 has failed these families and prioritised the golden circle of the rich and powerful in society. Last year, it was the burger barons and the big developers who got the golden handshake. This year, the reduction in capital gains tax from 33% to 31% handed almost €200 mil…
This budget is the ultimate three card trick. It mugs middle-income and lower income families and social welfare recipients. Some 1.5 million PAYE workers will benefit by a paltry €200 and that is on top of a freeze last year that meant they paid more income tax last year. Social welfare recipients will get €10 per week, which is lower than last year and breaks the Fianna Fáil promise that pensioners would get a €12 …
Families throughout the country are experiencing a severe cost-of-living crisis. In the teeth of this crisis, the Government withdrew all cost-of-living supports this year, leaving families as much as €1,400 worse off. The Government must now introduce a windfall profits tax on energy companies and price caps on petrol, diesel, home heating oil, electricity and gas to support families with the cost of energy. We alre…
The proposals to impose more severe regulations governing Irish citizenship are pandering to a tiny minority of far-right, anti-immigrant voices. It is shameful. As the Irish Council for Civil Liberties has said, no rationale, research or evidence has been presented by the Department for these proposed changes and no issues have been identified in the current system.
Claims that changes bring us into line with Europ…