Results 61-80 of 121 for going forward speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

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

Danny Healy-Rae: Honestly, only that I can see the Ceann Comhairle and other Deputies around the place I would have thought that I was in Russia or some other dictatorship with what is going on here and what is being proposed in this Bill. I say to Deputy Bruton that he is a wizard. After six months or more with rural pubs being closed, now he is suggesting that it is the publicans who should bring forward...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... When people's heads are down and they have a lot of troubles and worries, these are the people who take their minds off the troubles of the day. They come out of these places feeling better and looking forward to the future. They may go in down and out but they come out changed people after a session of listening to these kinds of people. Our tradition and our culture are very...

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...Ramblers, who played in Kilgarvan year after year. They have been left behind. They have serious costs and they gave great enjoyment and great benefit to all those who listened to them and who look forward to listening to them again. They are not allowed to work now. I appeal to the Minister to end the embargo on those people who played in local pubs and clubs in order that they be...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the chance to talk about this Bill. I congratulate the Minister and look forward to working with him. Knowing the approachable kind of man he is, we are at least going to be able to consult him and he will listen to us. The most important thing is that he listens to the voices of Deputies when we are relating the concerns of the constituents we represent. I welcome the...

Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...and the poor woman was honest when she said she could but that there were a lot of other things she could not do. Her application for home help was shot down. Home carers have been totally forgotten about. I know of one man who has been minding his sister for the past 17 or 18 years. It is 24-7 care, for which he gets €219. He is rightfully complaining that he cannot stir or go...

Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (30 Jun 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too wish the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, all the best in his new job. I look forward to working with him and we will certainly have a lot of things to sort out. I thank the health workers all around the country, but especially in Kerry, the people who worked in the hospitals in Tralee, Cahersiveen, Dingle, Kenmare, Killarney, and indeed, Bantry, which is very close to us and deals with...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (17 Jun 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...Boats and ferries licensed by the OPW are idle. Businesses are doing nothing and will do nothing even though the pubs and restaurants are supposed to open at the end of the month. I appeal to the Government to open Skellig Michael to visitors. Otherwise, the whole place will be closed and it will have a massive adverse effect. Will the Government to open Killarney National Park to the...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the most, which I raised earlier with the Taoiseach, is that people died in nursing homes and hospitals without any family member being with them. I do not know who made that decision. We must go forward. The Government did several things right but there were a number of things that were not done right and this is one of them. This is one thing I feel should not have happened. My own...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...and that is also all those people are asking for. He will not leave them alone, however. He was talking about the rebate scheme, but that does not apply to green diesel. The cost of fuel is going up and many people cannot get a rebate on white diesel either. It is not possible to go anywhere in rural Ireland without a car. I cannot understand Deputies in this Government, as well as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...recognise that this is the same treatment given to people in their late 30s or 40s, and are slow to take it up a second time when they see the effect it has on their children. It impedes them from going forward when something raises its head again. Would more one-to-one care deal with that differently, rather than giving people antidepressants at the weekend and sending them home, saying...

Personal Assistance Service: Motion (19 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this important topic. I thank Deputy Pringle and his group for putting forward the motion for debate. I also thank Senator Dolan for all he has done in his role as a Senator and in the years prior to that to help people with disabilities to have as normal a life as possible. I only have a short amount of time. Many people with disabilities...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am pleased to get the opportunity to speak on the budget. I got a clear message from 1,000 people on the budget and the economy of Kerry at Limerick racecourse last Sunday evening. It was to ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Madigan, to sign the hare coursing licence on which so many people in the south of the country, especially Kerry, Limerick and parts of...

Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this important Bill. I compliment Deputy O'Callaghan on bringing it forward. We hear every day of knife crime and it is on the increase. We have to ask ourselves why. Many believe that it is because of drugs and that it is used by these villains who supply and are in command of drugs and who are destroying our communities. We hear so much of it...

Status of History in the Framework for Junior Cycle: Statements (1 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...? This is a very important matter because, as many have said, if we do not know our history or how we got here, how do we know who we are? Then we need to know geography to find out where we are going. It is very important. The removal of history as a core subject would have been a very sinister move because it would have broken up our heritage, our culture and our identity. We have a...

Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Eamon Ryan for sharing time and Fianna Fáil for bringing this motion forward, which I am supporting. The Ministers did not listen to us in the spring when we were highlighting the plight of the farmers and I do not know if they really care. I am very disappointed with the Tánaiste, who was only 20 minutes away from the gates in Bandon but he never arrived to listen...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (26 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...be here. I express special thanks to everyone from County Kerry who travelled to be with us. My father always had the best people around him. It is quite something to think it is 22 years ago to the very day when he first took his seat in the Dáil. It is unbelievable to have these tributes being paid to him today. A lot of those who are here were here on that day too and I...

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...are waiting a long time to get a payment. Some people for whom they are caring have actually died before the carers got paid for caring for them. On agriculture, farmers are wondering what is going on with this €100 million or is it €50 million? Must they reduce stock to qualify for this funding or is it intended for farmers who are genuinely suffering and have lost...

National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have this opportunity to speak in support of this Bill. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing it forward. It has always been my understanding that if someone gives a tip, it is for the waiter or the workers and not for management. It is for the staff. I have had no complaints in my county that anything other than that happens, but I hear it happens in other parts of the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...and businesses, especially shop owners, have been waiting for a revised fair deal scheme for many years. The Minister of State at the Department of Health has announced that he will shortly bring forward this Bill, which was promised several times before. I will highlight what is wrong with the proposals the Minister of State will bring forward. The Department is still insisting that...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I cannot support the motion. While I have the height of regard and respect for Deputies Eamon Ryan and Catherine Martin of the Green Party, I do not agree with the motion they have put forward. It focuses on Dublin and touches on Galway, Cork and Limerick but there is a lot of territory beyond Limerick and Cork where people need their cars for transport. I agree with having more public...