Results 21-40 of 149 for going forward speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Retained Firefighters: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I welcome the people from the fire service who are in the Gallery and were earlier outside the gates of the Dáil. Many of them had to go home because they are on call tonight in their respective counties. I welcome the people who came from County Kerry and the rest of the country. They are here not because they want to be here but because they have to be here. They must make the...

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...to be here. Is he not a member of the political elite? Here he is condemning the political elite and talking about the other elite in society. Who are we talking about? We are talking about people that got educated, worked hard and studied. Whether they became a judge, barrister, solicitor, lawyer or county manager, are they the elite of Irish society? To me they are ordinary people...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Chair for the opportunity to contribute. I apologise as earlier I had to step out to go into the Chamber. It was to talk about the banks, funnily enough, and what they are doing to us at present. The presentations made were sound and helpful. I appreciate listening to experienced people like Professor Kinsella and Dr. Healy and getting their outlook not just on this budget...

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...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...brief. I just want to thank the witnesses for an excellent presentation. Both the statements and the questions and answers have been very helpful and very informative. This session will help us going forward in doing our work in a proper and informed manner, and for that I am personally grateful and I know that the Chair is too. It has been a very worthwhile session so far. I thank...

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...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I apologise for having to leave but I had to go to the Dáil and then attend to another matter. I thank the Ministers for being here and making themselves and their teams available, as they have always done. I very much appreciate their efforts. I value the Ministers' engagement, which is always very forthcoming. I know they are obliged to be forthcoming but we appreciate it and I...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...system and the process around the granting of planning permission that is compounded by a number of factors. On top of everything else, the manner in which this legislation is being passed is going to further erode people's confidence in the system. If the Government seriously believes it is right and proper for us to come in here and to have less than one hour to debate, scrutinise and...

Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 May 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: First of all, I thank Deputy Ó Broin and Sinn Féin for bringing forward this Bill. The legislation contained within this Bill would require estate agents and online hosting platforms to check if property owners have the correct planning documents before advertising their properties on their websites. If not, the law would then mean the platforms would be fined the amount they...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin, in particular Deputy Kerrane, for bringing forward this very important motion and giving us the first formal opportunity to discuss on the record of the Dáil the proposed criminalisation of the sale of turf for supply. One would swear to God it was some sort of an illegal drug the way we are talking about it. I never thought the sale and supply of turf would...

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...

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...

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...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: First of all, I thank Sinn Féin very much for bringing forward this very important motion. If you were ever to stand back and watch a kamikaze Government engaged in kamikaze-style activities, this is one of them. If you had a death wish, you would not be doing more than what it is proposing to do here. It has already been stated over and over again that if a system or something is...

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...

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...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (10 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...I have never seen any person taking a field into the ground. People have to leave their land to somebody else. I hope I will give the land I leave after me to other people in better shape than I got it and I hope they will do the same. I am the same as every other farmer in Ireland. Land is not a possession; it is something we use to try to make a couple of pounds of a living or...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Maternity Leave (21 Sep 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 430. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to extend maternity leave going forward (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44789/21]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will most certainly. The Government is attacking our people in the name of protecting the climate. My goodness gracious me, but what it is doing is an absolute disgrace and I will rub the Government's nose in it again and remind it that it stopped us from making and selling peat briquettes in Ireland. The Government shut down our plants while telling us that it was fine for us to...

Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jul 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...legislation that is being rushed through the House. I was disappointed yesterday evening with the vote that did away with the pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill. It denied us the right to put forward amendments, discuss and debate them and vote on them. That is what democracy is all about. Unfortunately, the Government is throwing democracy out the window in this whole debate because...