[5] He won back his seat at the 2011 general election with 21.3 per cent of the first preference vote and served on the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children.

[7][8][9] On 15 December 2011, he helped launch a nationwide campaign against the household charge being brought in as part of the 2012 Irish budget.

[11] He voted for both Gerry Adams and Richard Boyd Barrett for Taoiseach when the 32nd Dáil first met.

[12] Healy's brother Paddy Healy served as president of the Teachers' Union of Ireland and ran unsuccessfully in the Seanad elections in 2007 and 2011 for the NUI panel, and in the 1980s ran in the Dublin North-East constituency as an Anti H-Block candidate.

[17] Healy's first speech in the 34th Dáil focused on the "housing and homelessness crisis" which he stated is the "most fundamental issue facing this country".