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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I heard on radio this morning that 17 jobs are to be lost at Bord na Móna fairly soon. I ask the Government not to, in line with its policy, close down these peat-burning stations and peat providers which provided briquettes and turf over the years. I ask the Minister not to focus his attention on the people who cut their own turf. They are worried he will extend the policy to stop...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry, a Cheann Comhairle. There is nothing more wonderful than seeing people cutting their own turf and saving it in a fine summer like the one we have had. There is nothing wrong with it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They have their own fuel for the winter and it costs them very little.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We want to maintain that as it has been done over the years and down the ages, when people provided fuel for their own homes.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: If the Tánaiste is telling me that the cutting of turf is the cause of the flooding in Glenflesk, he is gone in the head. He is gone in the head.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are looking for no more than the people in Kerry deserve. We have gone down all the routes and all the surveys have been done by CFRAM. It was going on for six or seven years. There was agreement between Kerry County Council and the OPW to make an application under what was known as the minor flood mitigation scheme. That has been done. There are two applications with the OPW, one for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----these people are not left behind. The application has been made; it took a long time to get it in. That is what I am asking.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Tánaiste to talk to the Minister of State, Deputy Moran, and fast-track this funding so that the people will not be affected again as they were in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There were six floods and no one could get in or out of their houses. Ambulances could not pass up or down the main road to Cork.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is what I am asking the Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The process is there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to raise the matter of the clearing of the Flesk river in the parish of Killarney. The river needs to be cleaned from Gortahoosh bridge through Curreal and Glenflesk village up as far as Loo Bridge against Clonkeen. This stretch of the river is almost totally blocked with trees, silt and gravel which in the past nine or ten years has caused many houses in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the capitation grant per pupil will be raised to €200 for primary schools in view of the fact that the management bodies of schools are struggling to survive at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42855/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42- Department of Rural and Community Development (17 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I also congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, on his appointment and I wish him well. He was one of our colleagues up to a few days ago. Now he is a Minister of State on the other side of the House. We look forward to working with him. I thank the Minister, Deputy Ring, for the great work he has been doing in the past 12 months in what is a very important Department. A...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Chairman for giving me the opportunity to speak. I welcome Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Carey here and even though I was not physically here when they started talking I was listening to them on the monitor in my office and I agree with everything they have said. There has been an increase in rural crime and where I come from we all agree that the closure of Garda stations, lack of squad...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The right to freedom of conscience is a fundamental right protected by the Irish Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights. No person should be required by force of law to take innocent life. Irish doctors, nurses and midwives entered their professions to protect life, not to take it. For the first time in Irish history, a Minister for Health is proposing to force doctors to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There have been no orthopaedic services in Tralee general hospital since last June. I have raised the matter with the Taoiseach twice already this term. About ten days ago we got notification from the general manager of the hospital that services were to begin yesterday but they did not begin. People do not know when the orthopaedic section of the hospital will open again. I have asked...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is a different story in Cahersiveen and Waterville.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I know he was self-employed himself and that he understood it. I had so many people come to me crying about it and they were proud people. They had paid thousands and thousands of euro in tax when their businesses were going good. When they went wallop, they did not have a penny and they could not get a penny. It was wrong and I am glad that has been addressed in this budget. I am...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak again on this year's budget. I acknowledge the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Deputy Ring, and the Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Moran, who are in the House. Both are dedicated hard workers. I thank them for their input into Kerry. The Minister of State, Deputy Moran, has visited flood...