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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 543. To ask the Minister for Health what step-down facilities are provided for patients who cannot remain in general hospitals and need to go to a community or district-type hospital for further recuperation and treatment for patients who are under 66 years-of-age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50889/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 567. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51029/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I am glad to get this opportunity. I thank the witnesses. I have not been in the room long but I have been listening to them in my office upstairs. I thank the members of the committee for their questions as well. It is a very important and interesting debate. I thank the palliative care team we have in County Kerry. They are leaders in this area and do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: One size does not fit all. Whatever laws we make, we should not try to interfere with nature or natural law. We did not determine when or how we got here. No law should be made in the land that would decide at what point we exit it. I will give a few examples. All of you have similar ones. About ten years ago, there was a lovely lady and the story was bad. She was going to die in the...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: In the past few weeks, Sinn Féin has been on its high horse, with its members wanting to butt in at every opportunity they get.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was heckled here last night and heckled here today. If Deputy Cullinane wants to interrupt me, he should realise he can talk afterwards and put his point of view across. He is quite entitled to do that but he is not entitled to interrupt me here. I will not take it from him here, there or elsewhere.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: All I am saying is that there is no need for this Bill. It is wrong. People with a pro-life view are entitled to that view. The people who fought for us in 1916 wanted to have a democracy. I do not think it is democratic at all to try to stymie people are block them from going anywhere near where abortions may be taking place. Some people might not even know there are abortion facilities...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to contribute on this most important debate. I am firmly pro-life. I am glad that I was born and am able to see this life. I am sad that that is not the case for so many little babies who have been conceived but will not see the light of day. All they are asking, I am sure, is that they be allowed to live and come into this world. They are being denied...

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is there.

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I did not interrupt you.

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have to remain neutral. I state in the loudest possible way in this Chamber that we must remain neutral but we must ask and do everything possible to ensure the war ends on a humanitarian basis because so many lives are being taken and lost. I will give an example. When I was a young fellow I used to be out late. I came around MacSwiney's corner in Kenmare at 3 a.m. one night to see...

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I never interrupted Deputy Donnelly and I ask him to never again interrupt me.

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I told no lies so do not say that I did.

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak on this motion. First of all, I stress that we are a neutral country and have to remain neutral. We all abhor and condemn what is going on in Gaza and Israel. It is transparent and we can see what is happening there. Hamas started it. It took hostages that it has not yet released. I ask it to return these people and free these hostages. The...

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this serious motion. We are all scared stiff by what is happening in that part of the world. Last night on television, I saw little babies lying in a clump together somewhere. They were all dead. God almighty, it is terrible and hurtful. It is hard to even watch, never mind endure. I call on the Government to do whatever it can. It does not...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak. I thank the Electoral Commission for the great work it did and for leaving County Kerry intact and not putting any part of it into any other county. I have a small regret that there are small bits of Rathmore and of Ballydesmond in Cork North-West. They are part of their respective parishes and perhaps they could have been put into the Kerry...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: We want our bit of Ballydesmond and Rathmore back.

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: No, no.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Over 300 residents of Killarney convened a meeting on Sunday night. They are very concerned about the placement of 77 more asylum seekers very close to them in Harmony Inn on the Muckross Road. They want the decision in this regard to be reversed because there is a lack of surety as regards safety and services in the town of Killarney in light of the number of asylum seekers and refugees...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am also asking publicly in this Chamber that the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, go down to Killarney and meet the residents. I have been asked to relay that message in the House.