Results 41-60 of 129 for going forward speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...what happened at my clinic the other night. I was invited into the home of a lady called Nora, who is nearer 90 years of age than 80. When I went into her house, she had a very small bit of a fire going, with maybe five or six lumps of coal in the back of the fireplace. She had a red blanket over her knees, there was a very small bit of heat and she was very near the fire. This woman...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Driver Test (6 May 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...previous Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross, and the hierarchy of the RSA were more interested in criminalising young people than educating them. In the past, proposals were put forward to the Department to overhaul the way we educate our young people on the rules of the road and assist them in obtaining a driving licence. Again, this was thrown to the side because...

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...a fortune, yet only €27,000 was spent on investigations in the field of our maritime accidents and incidents. This is an appalling approach. How far would the Rescue 116 investigation have got with such a small amount of money? As the Minister of State knows, I come from a constituency in County Kerry with a vast coastline and hardworking fishermen all along our coast. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Joint Sitting with Joint Committee on European Union Affairs
First Vice-President of the European Commission, Mr. Frans Timmermans: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...of the European Commission, Mr. Frans Timmermans and his colleagues to the joint meeting today. On a light note, I hope we will not emulate Mr. Timmermans's political record of having to go through six elections in 11 years. We had an election 12 months ago and I hope we do not have one for a long time not to mind another five or four after that. I echo the comments of my esteemed...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...access road. The Property Registration Authority also had issues. The major issue the Bill aims to fix is that the transition period in which the registering of easements, without the need to go to court, which was due to end on 30 November, is to be taken away, and that is warmly welcomed. I know solicitors and their clients welcome it. The one thing that we all want, when a person...

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank most sincerely the Sinn Féin Party for bringing forward this very important issue for debate on the floor of Dáil Éireann. It is very important because it is arising at a time when the Minister and the Government are telling people that they cannot go to a filling station and buy a bag of turf and that they do not want them going to the bogs because they are afraid...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...he highlighted the filibustering of Deputies on the other side who have spoken 50,000 words compared with 45,000 words spoken by those of us on this side. That finally nails the claims that have been going around here for the last couple of days. People, including the Taoiseach, have made accusations against us. This is a worthwhile amendment which is being brought forward for the most...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...when it came to older people and pensions, to remember and never forget that a fiver a week to somebody on a pension can actually make a difference. My mother may have said that more to me in the years gone by, and nowadays perhaps €5 would not do much for a person. At the same time, when a person is on a fixed income, whatever that income is and especially if it is a pension, any...

Beef Industry: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the members of the Technical Group for allocating some of their speaking time to me. I compliment Deputy Ó Cuív and the Fianna Fáil Party on bringing forward this excellent motion. My closest personal friend of many years, Mr. Bernard Collins, who has worked in the Tralee mart for over 35 years, has been warning me for some time about what is happening in the beef...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...of the people who did reach out, got the service and then the service we provided harmed their beautiful and vulnerable children. It is an outrage of enormous proportions. The problem we have going forward is around how we will, first, put right the wrong done to those children who in the HSE's words have been damaged. How will we restore confidence to other parents that in the...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...on Deputy Howlin’s amendment. The publicans of Ireland are, after all, tax collectors, revenue collectors and collectors of excise for the State, and have collected serious amounts of money for Governments present and past, and will do so in the future, those of whom will be allowed to stay open or who will be able to stay open after this further draconian legislation is passed. ...

Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank and compliment Deputy Doherty and Sinn Féin for bringing forward this very important topic for debate tonight. I acknowledge the presence of the Minister of State, who is a decent and honourable man. We wish him nothing but good luck in his role. We will be relying on him 100%. The problem is as outlined in the Bill. We want to bring down the cost of claims and we want to...

Courts (Establishment and Constitution) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...with them. Such individuals do not come cheap and they have to be paid for their time. Instead of being first on the list, which it should be, those involved will be informed that the case is going to take too long and that it is being postponed to a later date. That can happen on a number of occasions. The poor people to whom I refer have to be there. I do not know anybody who looks...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: That is to be welcomed. We have lessons to learn, and when I say “we” I mean all of us, as to how we go about securing permission from farmers when we want to do a project. There is a great difference between going to a landowner in one way as opposed to another. There was a very nice man in the place where I come from and he said it is all about how one approaches a...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...Minister for roads and transportation who does not like building roads, bypasses or bridges. The Green Party members have already held up numerous major infrastructural projects which we want to go ahead with in this country and, to be honest, their whole ethos is anti-rural Ireland. Yesterday, the Government had a very proactive person like the Minister in attendance and like the...

European Council: Statements (28 Jun 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: At the outset, I wish the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, well. As Chairman of the Joint Committee on European Affairs, I wish to say on behalf of the committee that we look forward to engaging with her in the very near future. Like many in this room, I am as interested in the issues that were discussed informally as those that were on the agenda, in particular the proposal presented by...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (Resumed) (30 Jun 2016)

Michael Healy-Rae: I congratulate the Minister of State on his reappointment and wish him every good luck and success. This is certainly a very worrying time for everybody. Even though we were all preparing, we still did not expect the vote to go the way it did. The European Union, formally created in 1993 after decades of international co-operation between the countries of Europe, has provided an...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I welcome this debate and thank Sinn Féin for bringing it forward but I also want to highlight one issue. Sinn Féin has made 11 points in the motion being debated tonight but I would like it if it had 12. The thing I would like to see Sinn Féin highlighting is its own contribution to the housing crisis. I will give an example. Between objecting to zoning and objecting to...

Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...not be abandoned and as heat and light will still be provided, the standing bills will continue. Moreover, as the teachers will continue to teach in the amalgamated schools, I see no reason to go down that road. I return full circle to the reason I began to speak about small schools, which is my belief that over the years, successive Governments have given proper attention and concern in...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: First, I want to thank Deputy Shanahan very sincerely for bringing forward this very important Bill because of the simple fact that oversight is so important when dealing with large sums of money. There seems to be a trend in Ireland in the last ten years that if a project is of a certain size, no notice in the world is taken of overruns and overspends. Take for instance the national...