Results 1-20 of 121 for going forward speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... There is no call for tampering with the fundraising of clubs, charities, sports clubs, GAA clubs. What is being done here is volunteers are fundraising to try to keep their sporting groups going such as football clubs or whatever, or hurling clubs like Kilgarvan. It brings communities together when they are fundraising for a purpose. From all different creeds of religions and...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank People Before Profit for bringing forward this worthy motion. It is clear that people with disabilities are not being funded properly. I think of the €29 million that was wasted on the referendums and what it would do for people with disabilities. All of us like to have a place to go and something to do to make us relevant. I ask that we ensure that young people who...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. We proposed a similar motion four weeks ago. It is important because so many areas, including Killarney and areas in south Kerry, are under pressure for GPs. Those areas are losing doctors. Even more people are being brought into the area but there is no other doctor to cater for those extra people. We are talking about...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...its money. It is the people who get out in the morning early and work and pay maybe 40% of their income in tax and 4.5% USC on top of that. That is what the wrong is. It is not the Government’s money. If it is going to continue with this payment to people coming from Ukraine, and we all empathise and sympathise with their predicament, be fair about the bloody thing. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... We want this route to help people travel safely. It is also choking the town of Killarney economically. I am just making the case to the witnesses and would appreciate if they could bring it forward or hurry it on at all. The N22 in the Glenflesk valley was for many years prone to flooding, culminating with many deputations coming into the town hall in Killarney, notices of motion...

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...a few words about the licence fee. I believe we are putting the cart before the horse. As I understand it, RTÉ came to the Oireachtas committee to look for approximately €60 million to keep going, and that is only some of it. We have no plan or transparency available from RTÉ or the Government as to what is going to be the case with RTÉ going forward. We have to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----for the serious way it has impacted on beef farmers. I ask the Taoiseach to intervene in this because this is going to have a serious effect on suckler beef farmers going forward.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Ó Broin and Sinn Féin for bringing forward the Bill and giving us a chance to talk about renters and housing. Renters in many parts of Kerry are having severe difficulty finding a house to rent. The houses that are available may be too expensive. Landlords are sceptical of the HAP system and unwilling to accept the payment. There are houses to be found but many...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...I will not be told what to say or not to say or be muzzled in this Chamber, outside it or anywhere else. I take exception to Members of this Chamber calling me various names when I put something forward here. That has not been corrected yet. Even outside the Chamber, we have been called cowards. Anyone who knows the Healy-Raes, going back as far as I can remember, will know none of...

Renters: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...where he comes from. To make a point I have raised several times before, there are many houses, even in the Killarney electoral area, that have been void and vacant for four and five years. That is the gospel truth. I was made promises in this regard the year before last, last year and this year. Whatever is the matter, there are still several homes vacant and void, and no notice in...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this very important motion this evening. I am very sad and sorry to see this proposal being brought forward by the Tánaiste, Micheál Martin. I cannot understand it. He is undermining all the good works of the Defence Forces and their peacekeeping efforts over the years when we were applauded. The triple lock has served us well and I...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is a very worrying situation that has affected everyone all over the world. People are outraged at what is going on and what has gone on. We welcome the word that has come through this morning that there is some breakthrough and that peace may be about to happen. We all hope and pray that it does happen. I condemn what has happened here since 7 October. I am neutral in the sense...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nitrates Usage (21 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...most farmers have their quota filled and their culled cows sold. They have the amount of cows they need so no one will be buying the extra cows or heifers, so there is only one place farmers can go with them. To keep the same amount of cows, farmers would have to buy or rent more land and that is just not possible for most of them. The only option they have is to send their heavily...

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: ...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 where they are. In such circumstances, there is no need for this...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I thank Labour for putting forward this very important motion today. Since I came up here, one of the things I have been consistently raising is the fact that we need more home helps and people need to be helped to stay in their homes as long as possible. They treat going into nursing homes as being the departure lounge and they feel they still have a chance if they stay at home. I...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...living alone, are in their mid-80s, have serious health problems and cannot manage in their homes alone. The HSE has refused in at least six instances to sign off and say people were entitled to go forward for fair deal. That is terrible. Elderly people in their 80s are being refused fair deal. I cannot understand it. Are they short of money or what, coming up to the end of the year?...

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Sep 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get an opportunity to talk on this very serious matter before us this evening. While I welcome that Sinn Féin is bringing the motion forward, I do not exactly agree 100% that this will be targeted enough to help the people who are in trouble. What I cannot understand is that the Government is agreeing to these interest rate increases, and the Government is saying the...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...it is necessary in the first place. We do not have these kinds of demonstrations, that I know of, on my side of the country, in our county. In a lot of places we have practising GPs whom people go to daily. People cannot get to their GPs. How will these zones be marked for people who do not know where those GPs are? Someone could be within such an exclusion zone unwittingly. Are we...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...They want us to cull cows, rewet land and reduce production by other means through the nitrates directive. Last year, the Taoiseach at the time, Deputy Micheál Martin, was violent when I asked if the Government was considering reducing the number of or culling cows. The Minister denied it. Here we are today because the Green Party kept the pressure on and ensured the Government...