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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Generation (17 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 451. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of acres of farmland taken up with solar panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40264/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (17 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of acres of farmland purchased by the State in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40265/25]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak about this Bill, which deals with very serious matters that affect every community, especially in Kerry. There are many failings and many issues. The Minister has said the HSE's annual service plan is to be replaced with an annual performance delivery plan. An issue I have encountered in this Chamber since I came up here is that, every budget time,...

Dental Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get this opportunity. I thank Deputy Brian Stanley for tabling the motion on this very important and serious matter to give us all the chance to say a few words on it. We know the scenario in County Kerry is very drastic. Practically no dentist will take a patient on a medical card to remove or extract a tooth or to deal with that patient at all. Gladly, when people were in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too welcome the Minister of State to the committee. It is a fierce honour for us as a family to be here. I suppose we could add in the Chair as well, because he is only over the ditch from us in a place called Coolea. We are on the boundary. We have the tent fairly well surrounded here this evening. A lot of journalists were making hay at the time that the fight was about speaking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister of State mentioned the agroforestry scheme for planting trees on land and that you could graze animals under them. Would he ever tell me how close together the trees will be? My knowledge of trees is that much does not grow under them because ash and oak trees, and whatever else, have big roots coming out of them and the grass hardly grows at all where the likes of them are....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am dubious enough about it because I know they impede the growth of grass, even far away out from the ditch. For whatever reason, cattle do not like the type of grass that grows under the trees. They have a dislike for it. The other very important thing, and we all encountered it during the storm, is roadside trees. This is happening more. People are being killed and everything....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am disappointed with that because I understood from the start that the Minister of State was responsible. In relation to the trees under wires and the ESB, does the Minister of State have any say in what the ESB is doing or how far back it is cutting in blanket forest? How far back is the ESB supposed to cut near the wires? This is to prevent power outages like the ones we had for days...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: There was a rule that if someone was planting ground, they would have to plant 80% of green ground versus 20% of waste ground, cutaway bog or other type of ground. Has that rule changed? When we are talking about peaty soil, is that the ground that is being brought back?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I agree with the Minister of State. He said that some crowd said we had a romantic notion about planting trees on blanket bog. I went through bogs with tractors and machines, and I can think of more romantic places to be. In one minute, you could be swallowed, and you would be trying to get up from underneath and to get out of the machine before it was covered up. There is a big...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (16 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 293. To ask the Minister for Health for an update regarding Lyme disease in providing accurate testing and adequate treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40061/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Food Security (15 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am hoping the Minister of State will relay my story to the Minister for agriculture. Food security is of paramount importance. We all know if we do not eat, young or old, we will not last very long. It is sad when we see other people and children in need in all these war-torn places starving. We hear and we read there are 750 million people in the world starving, yet we seem to not be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Food Security (15 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State and for being here this late at night. He has thrown out a lot of figures there. My head is not like a computer but I can say to him he is going back to figures for what has happened up to now but I am worried about here on because as I told him, much land is being bought up and let go idle. Much land is being planted with solar panels. I am glad the...

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this very important motion. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing it before us. I welcome all the people who had to come here to the Gallery, all the girls and women. We are sorry they had to come to highlight their condition and their problem, but why not, because they are very welcome here. It is sad to hear and see what they have had to suffer....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many people are looking forward to the Puck Fair festival in Killorglin this year. It has been going on for over 400 years and survived many obstacles, bad times and good times. It even survived Joe Duffy's attack on the goat. However, 14 publicans looked for an exemption until 3 a.m. from the District Court recently. They only got an exemption until 2 a.m. I believe they are appealing...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Are Garda resources under so much pressure that we cannot afford an extra hour each night until 3 a.m. in order to maintain the tradition we have had in Killorglin? It was open all night at one time.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Are we under such pressure for Garda resources? I invite the Taoiseach, the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, the Chief Whip and the Ceann Comhairle to Puck Fair. All are welcome.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is An Garda Síochána under so much pressure that we cannot afford an extra hour each night?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is a yearly event. It has been happening for more than 413 years.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government is hurting everyone now with this hour because of Garda resources.