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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not apologise to anyone for raising this matter today. Irish Water will state that it is only obliged to bring its existing treatment plants up to an acceptable standard. The company will tell me, others and the local authority that it has no obligation to build new treatment plants. That is where we are. I ask the Tánaiste to talk to Irish Water about that. He is the...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I did not rule out everyone.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Ryan Tubridy is a good operator, as was Gay Byrne before him. If it was not a good programme, it would not have lasted for this long. It has survived the test of time and I have no doubt that it will carry on for a long time to come. The greyhound programme that depicted the greyhound industry in such a bad light was not fair on people who love their dogs, would do nothing wrong to...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Just one second. The programme stated that more than 6,000 greyhounds were unaccounted for, that they had been put down and were treated badly. I can assure the House that I met one dog that was ten years old and one would not know that he was not a six month old pup.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: This Bill focuses on a number of things. It would enable the broadcasting authority to impose, reduce, and in some cases eliminate or exempt the payment of the broadcasting levy by certain broadcasters. I am worried because we do not know what charge will be imposed. It refers to providing flexibility to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland in dealing with the application of the...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can I speak now?

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I came too soon.

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is only another stunt to get more money out of hard-pressed people who are paying enough tax as it is.

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry that I do not agree with anything that has been said here tonight. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, admits that climate change occurs because of changes in the Earth's solar orbit and not because of human activity. For more than 60 years, NASA has known that changes occurring to the planetary weather patterns are completely natural and normal. The space...

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: History will tell us that there were severe climatic situations in different centuries. Going back to the 13th and 14th century, the heat in this country was unbearable. In another decade, we had what was known as a mini-ice age.

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are harsh when we suggest that a carbon tax be applied to people in the coming budget.

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: People laugh at the thought that it will be ring-fenced or put in a drawer somewhere to be kept safe.

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get this opportunity to speak about this important topic. As we know, the secretaries are out of sorts because they are not being paid properly. It is not fair because they do a tremendous job. I met the school secretary in Kilgarvan recently when I drove the school bus because my bus driver was off. I saw that her job involves ensuring that children are loaded onto and...

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...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to again raise the matter of the hare netting and coursing licence which has been refused or suspended by the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Madigan. The people of County Kerry and other rural dwellers feel wrongly disenfranchised by a Dublin-based Minister who also prevented the cutting of hedgerows in August. They believe that the Minister does not...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister, Deputy Ross, has done enough harm to the people of rural Ireland. I ask the Taoiseach to remove him from office. I ask Fianna Fáil to demand his removal. They are supporting him.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is time for him to go. The people of County Kerry want to get rid of him.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: One hare has been found to have the disease and that was in dubious circumstances.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Deputy Martin is now keeping the Taoiseach in power.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: 188. To ask the Minister for Health if the new funding model for persons with disabilities and multi-annual funding will be implemented (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40119/19]