Results 101-120 of 145 for going forward speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...or do not want to do so, by increasing the cost of their box of cigarettes by 75 cent. In some cases, the only comfort those people might have in this world, or the only thing they might look forward to, is smoking a cigarette. Again, I am not saying we should encourage it, but we should not penalise those people. They might be living on a fixed or low income and the only thing they...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I wish to put the following statement into the record of the Dáil. It is about the protection of a very important species, namely, the human species. I am going to relay a true story about a lady. I will not give her name because she is now deceased but it is no harm to recount her story and how she was affected by this issue we are debating. Despite her advanced years, this lady...

Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 May 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...have to fill in a form to do so. If they want to get into a digger or sit up on a tractor to do some work, they will almost have to get permission to do so. That seems to be the road we are going down. That is the concern that I and the other members of the Rural Independent Group have on this issue. That is the concern that we have. We have always stated, and I have always stated...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: We are looking forward to a couple of more projects securing funding from his Department. It has a big hand to play in Kerry and there is no doubt about that. If we take, for example, the Office of Public Works and all of the other sectors that come under his remit, then the Minister of State, his Department and his officials are very important in our book down in County Kerry. I...

Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Jun 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...why so few women take up opportunities to stand before the public for election to political life. Why are women not choosing to become career politicians? Throughout our history, women who have gone forward for election have been great public representatives and very successful. They have made a big contribution to Irish political life. Nevertheless, there has not been proportionate...

Health Services Delivery: Motion (25 Oct 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...Glen or Portmagee, the nearest ambulance base will be in Kenmare, Killarney or Tralee. The quickest time an ambulance can travel that journey is an hour and 45 minutes. The first responder will go out and, one hopes, stabilise the patient, but it will take the ambulance an hour and 45 minutes to arrive on the scene of whatever has happened. That cannot be right. The Minister's...

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Jul 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...was more than just a business. An Post and the postal people who ran our post offices over the years are like social workers. It might seem like a miserable letter to some people, but the act of going to meet a person in a rural location is more than just delivering the mail. The postman might inform the person about who died that week, tell a bit of gossip, or have a debate about...

Rural Crime: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jan 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...general public that supported them in ensuring that more stringent rules were put in place. A lot of those bully boys were hunted down. For the smart big men with the big swaggers on them when they were going around thinking that they could kill a journalist like that in broad daylight, not far from here, the smile was put on the other side of those little worms' faces when they were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UK Withdrawal from the EU: British Ambassador to Ireland (4 Apr 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...have a strong, mutual and unique relationship. Engagement between both countries will continue to be as important as it has been in the past. As such, I am delighted to further it today. I look forward to a detailed, positive and constructive discussion following the ambassador's opening statement. Members are reminded of the longstanding parliamentary practice to the effect that...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...and to fight their case, if they have the prospect of penalty points being imposed against them. There is no other sector of society, except farmers, whose members are targeted as much for going about their daily work. Can you imagine a person working in a factory, building site or any other place of work, where people are down on him or her as much as they are on fishermen and...

ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...thank the members of the Technical Group and their staff for allowing me some of their speaking time. This is an important Bill and I compliment and sincerely thank the Minister for bringing forward this progressive legislation. It is important from the view of having access to a proper fibre telecommunications service in the Irish market. It is as important as a good road going into a...

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...all of that. I welcome the people who are in the Public Gallery. Unfortunately, the crisis in our healthcare system represents a litany of broken promises and unfulfilled commitments by the Minister for Health and the Government. In March 2017, the then Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, made a commitment that no child would wait more than four months for spinal surgery by the...

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...insane that the emergency department is the only way a person can be admitted today to Kerry University Hospital. Take the example of a doctor attending a person and telling that person he or she must go to the hospital because it is a hospital case. That person has been assessed by the GP and the GP, in his or her expertise, has diagnosed what is wrong and what care is required....

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...stage. Deputies, including the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, asked about statistics, so I will outline a couple. In the past four years, the FAC has heard only 33% of the appeals that have been put forward. In the middle of the greatest crisis the industry has ever seen, the committee has held no hearing since 31 July. What message does that send to the industry? The total number of appeals...

Construction Contracts Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jun 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...are people pricing jobs and making commitments to carry out work at unrealistic prices. The only way they can meet their commitments is if someone is not paid. I will cite an example of this ongoing practice in a public contract. People who worked on a school building project in Kenmare have not and will not be paid. It is awful that subcontractors who supplied concrete, stone and...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...are missing one very important point. We have discussed lay people and their role while at the same time we do not know how many people we are talking about. Is it 13, 17, or what is the figure going to be? That is one of the fundamental issues that we must be clear on, but we have no clarity whatsoever. We are discussing amendments that pertain to their roles while not knowing how...

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: .... That is nonsense. In actual fact, the display the two of them put on tonight would be worthy of an episode of "Father Ted". It was hopeless to give that response to us after we genuinely put forward these amendments. We worked at them, we believe in them and a lot of people around the country are relying on them to be enacted. We begged the Minister and Minister of State to give a...

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: I wish the Minister of State good luck in her new role. Section 7(3) of the Bill contains the commencement provision. This means that, before the Bill can have any impact, the Minister needs to make a commencement order. Sometimes, an Act is commenced all in one go, but it is quite common for an Act to be commenced on a phased basis, in other words, in dribs and drabs. A delay to the...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...on our roads. I was with a very close friend of mine the day he died. Myself and my father were with him earlier that morning. I was to meet him again that evening but, unfortunately, I never got to meet him again because he passed away in a tragic accident. I know at first hand what it is like to lose people we care about on our roads. I want to acknowledge that and put it on the...

Turbary Rights: Motion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Technical Group Members for sharing some of their time with me. I thank Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan for bringing forward this very important Private Members' motion, and I thank the excellent people, such as Pat Fitzpatrick, who worked with the Deputy and have put much time and effort into the issue. I acknowledge the work of the Turf Cutters and Contractors Association, TCCA,...