Results 61-80 of 149 for going forward speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Road Traffic (Amendment) (Use of Electric Scooters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (16 Oct 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy MacSharry and Fianna Fáil for bringing forward this important subject to debate here tonight. Certainly, the use of e-scooters has become more common. Something I would dearly like to see would be the use of helmets by those using e-scooters because at present they do not use helmets. None of us wants to see anybody, no matter his or her age, being hurt, especially...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...farmers. In reality, nothing is being done for our fishermen either beyond engaging in a lot of soft talk. Tell it to the fishermen who want to fish in Cromane and are waiting for licences. The Government could do simple things that would not cost anything. There are repairs to be carried out on piers and other infrastructure that are crumbling. The Government cannot see that doing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State (2 Oct 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: On behalf of our members, I thank the Minister of State and her officials for being here and for their ongoing engagement with our committee. The next couple of weeks will be terribly important not just for the people in Ireland and the rest of Europe today but for future generations too. We look forward to working with the Minister of State and the Minister, and we will all pull together...

Beef Sector: Statements (17 Sep 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...length and breadth of Ireland who are the backbone of this country and we should be there to protect them. I will give an example of the frustration that exists. I received an email a while ago from a man who told me he was writing from a total sense of desperation. He and his wife are small beef farmers and, after two loss-making years, they are fighting for their right to earn a...

Cork Mail Centre: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: .... To the workers directly affected by this closure, all I can do is support the Deputies who represent them, for example, Deputy Micheál Martin, and others. My job is to support the motion and to thank those who brought it forward. It provides us with the opportunity to show An Post that we are not going to sit idly by and keep our mouths shut while mail centres are closed. It...

Mental Health Services Reports: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Fianna Fáil for bringing forward this motion. I thank the Minister of State for being actively interested in County Kerry. He has come down on a number of occasions connected with different aspects of his portfolio. I will welcome him any time he wants to come down. I invite him now because there are other issues with which we want him to deal in County Kerry and I look...

Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank our Whip, Deputy Mattie McGrath, and David Mullins and Máiread McGrath in his office, for the preparatory work they did in bringing forward this very important motion. Each and every one of us, from all political parties and none, are all dealing with one issue which is the same to all of us, namely, the people who are affected by the crisis that has not gone away. There may...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Europe Day, 9 May 2019
Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs, Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence, Joint Committee on Climate Action and Joint Committee on Justice and Equality
Challenges for the European Union: Presentations (9 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...and sound staff. I am delighted that today we have engagement on Europe Day. We have a presentation by the students on the challenges facing the European Union and we are all very much looking forward to that. I welcome all the witnesses to this special meeting of the joint committees on Europe Day. On this day in 1950 Robert Schuman outlined his vision for Europe of peace and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Europe Day, 9 May 2019
Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs, Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence, Joint Committee on Climate Action and Joint Committee on Justice and Equality
Challenges for the European Union: Presentations (9 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...and sound staff. I am delighted that today we have engagement on Europe Day. We have a presentation by the students on the challenges facing the European Union and we are all very much looking forward to that. I welcome all the witnesses to this special meeting of the joint committees on Europe Day. On this day in 1950 Robert Schuman outlined his vision for Europe of peace and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Europe Day, 9 May 2019
Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs, Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence, Joint Committee on Climate Action and Joint Committee on Justice and Equality
Challenges for the European Union: Presentations (9 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...and sound staff. I am delighted that today we have engagement on Europe Day. We have a presentation by the students on the challenges facing the European Union and we are all very much looking forward to that. I welcome all the witnesses to this special meeting of the joint committees on Europe Day. On this day in 1950 Robert Schuman outlined his vision for Europe of peace and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Europe Day, 9 May 2019
Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs, Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence, Joint Committee on Climate Action and Joint Committee on Justice and Equality
Challenges for the European Union: Presentations (9 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...and sound staff. I am delighted that today we have engagement on Europe Day. We have a presentation by the students on the challenges facing the European Union and we are all very much looking forward to that. I welcome all the witnesses to this special meeting of the joint committees on Europe Day. On this day in 1950 Robert Schuman outlined his vision for Europe of peace and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Europe Day, 9 May 2019
Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs, Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence, Joint Committee on Climate Action and Joint Committee on Justice and Equality
Challenges for the European Union: Presentations (9 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...and sound staff. I am delighted that today we have engagement on Europe Day. We have a presentation by the students on the challenges facing the European Union and we are all very much looking forward to that. I welcome all the witnesses to this special meeting of the joint committees on Europe Day. On this day in 1950 Robert Schuman outlined his vision for Europe of peace and...

Civil Liability and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: We all know what the problems are but we need to know what solutions can be brought forward to try to resolve this critical situation. Insurance reform is needed. Action is needed to finally put the nail on what I would call bogus claims. It is totally unnatural. The Minister, Deputy Flanagan, is a politician - forget about being a Minister - who deals in the real world out there with...

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...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: Are they just silently waiting because they cannot avail of the bus from Kerry or Cork? That is wrong. God gave us only two eyes. I know of people who, unfortunately, did not come forward in time and the ripeness in their eyes had come and gone and the opportunity was lost and they lost an eye. Close one of your eyes this minute, a Cheann Comhairle, and think about going around for the...

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...

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

Michael Healy-Rae: I appreciate very much the opportunity to speak on this most important motion. I thank our Whip, Deputy Mattie McGrath, and Triona and David in his office, for the research work they did to bring forward this very important item. I thank everyone who contributed tonight. Deputy Bobby Aylward has just left the Chamber but I thank him for being here up until now. Apart from the Minister of...

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...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...steps as may be appropriate and practicable to avoid causing pain to the foetus.(2) Where the medical practitioner who is carrying out a termination of pregnancy is of the reasonable opinion formed in good faith that the gestational age of the foetus is 20 weeks or more, he or she shall administer or ensure the administration of an anaesthetic or analgesic to the foetus prior to the...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (27 Nov 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...way at all times. Nobody from a political party will stop me or any of my friends from doing that. The most striking feature of Committee Stage was the sheer avalanche of amendments put forward by supporters of the Bill and advocates of abortion on demand. For months we have been told that we must get on with it, respect the verdict of the people, that the proposals put to the people...