Results 3,241-3,260 of 5,128 for speaker:Danny Healy-Rae
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Statement of Strategy 2018 to 2020 and Project Ireland 2040: Discussion (29 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: Someone might like to say that I am saying that for myself but I am saying local-----
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this important matter. I thank Deputy Mattie McGrath for doing so much work in the background to get this Private Members' business up and running. I regret the sarcastic attack that the Minister made on us because we are raising this issue. He says that we do not have a monopoly, which we do not. We have an understanding and the Government...
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Government has shares in AIB and Bank of Ireland. I ask the Minister to look at this and to not reject our motion with the attitude and frame of mind with which he came here this evening.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister should have learned the lesson from last weekend, with what happened around the country.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: I know now that the Minister is not aware of what is happening in the country; we are.
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: Is the Minister of State saying that we are not fair-minded?
- Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: They are not lending.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: Is the Minister aware of how the reduction in the time for home helps is affecting-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: It is in the promised legislation.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: The story is that home help has been cut down to 20 minutes-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: A woman phoned me to say that her home help cannot cook a dinner for her. The home help has time to give her a shower and a sandwich.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: The sandwich is no good to the woman because she is hungry and sick of sandwiches and showers. Twenty minutes is not enough.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: Another lady is paying so much money that she is left with only €57 for the week-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----after paying for private home help.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am asking the Minister to increase the time for home helps. It is the policy of the Government to keep people in their homes for as long as possible.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: Will the Minister do something about this? A sum of €57 for an old lady to live on-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----is not adequate.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (8 May 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: 354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if priority access to a local secondary school will be given to those who live in the local catchment area and attend primary school there in the case of pupils that are going on to secondary level education (details supplied). [19549/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (18 Apr 2019)
Danny Healy-Rae: 88. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if jobs can be secured from the Civil Service mobility scheme for rural areas (details supplied). [18106/19]
- 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...