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Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and the effect it will have on these visitor centres and the people who, as was stated, in bad times set out on a road of creating employment and producing a product for the market. This will hurt them in a very real way. Maybe we cannot fully understand yet the implications of it, but the worry is that it will have a seriously detrimental effect on the industry and that there will be...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is what it set out to do, but many things have been added onto it in recent times.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very opposed to what the Minister is proposing.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is directional signage to places where people are working. There are 6,450 people employed in the drinks and hospitality trade in County Kerry, which is 10.5% of the total number of people in employment in the county. I should declare that I am the owner of a pub and have been for many years. I live there. This demonisation of alcohol is going too far. There was never anything wrong...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Worried people have asked me about the situation where pubs are close to schools. What will happen there?

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Are they going to be prohibited from advertising what they have on their premises?

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Deputy is after overrunning. The Chair should reset the time for us now.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: My brother declared an interest. I do not know what we has or does not have but I must also declare an interest. He does not tell me anyway. The Minister and the Government have said all along that money was not the problem in the building of houses, but it must be a problem. In Kerry, we are limited to building two rural cottages a year from 2016 to 2021. That is the truth, the whole...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the progress that has been made with Killarney House by the Minister's Department. It is a great attraction for the town and the county of Kerry. My father ensured it was put on the investment programme in late 2010, and it has progressed well since then. On behalf of the people of Kerry I welcome the final stages in the gardens and so on. The national park was given over to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak at this committee. For some time I have been hoping to talk to the Minister of State in a public forum such as this because what I have to talk about is very important to some on the Ballinskelligs side of my constituency. Across the road today we met wonderful people from Conradh na Gaeilge which does great work and is trying to survive. We also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was asked to highlight one further matter. As the Minister of State knows, Comharchumann Forbartha Chorca Dhuibhne is operating in west Dingle. One of the managers, whose name is Páidí Ó Sé, highlighted the problem it has getting people to participate in the community employment scheme. One of the difficulties the organisation is encountering is that people cannot be...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I know that, as night follows day, the Taoiseach will increase funding and the allocation for the HSE and the health service in the budget. I ask him to, please, not let it be consumed by HSE management. I also asked him to do this last year. He needs to be specific with the increased allocation. Nurses throughout the country are under severe pressure, both mentally and physically. In...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, but what I am asking is that the allocation be made specific for front-line staff because otherwise they will not continue. Nurses cannot be recruited or retained if they are not paid properly.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: He knows the answer to that question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not know who is counting.

Mental Health (Renewal Orders) Bill 2018: Second Stage (2 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to welcome this Bill which gives patients the entitlement to a review by a tribunal to satisfy whether they should be released. It is very welcome. I have to talk about suicide because it is a demon which has affected many families. Everyone talks about their own place. In Kerry, we have had too much of it. Teenagers have pressures in schools and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Chairman. I am glad of the opportunity to speak. I wish to mention the fair deal scheme for farmers who get sick. We welcome the cap of three years. We hope that money will be provided in the budget to finance the scheme. I am very concerned that the value of the farm, including the dwelling house, will be assessed when determining the percentage to be paid by a farmer....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Sure, I was not forgetting them in Kenmare, either. Suckler cow farmers are taking a lot of heat and a trouncing at present, with the cost of feed, meals and fertilizer. How can the fertilizer companies account for increasing the cost every year regardless of whether the farmers have a good or bad year? Is there no way to control this? We hear this morning of the cost of diesel fuel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not agree with it. It is very unfair to be increasing the cost of VAT and carbon tax when we consider that fuel coming in to the country is so dear at the present time. I asked on the Order of Business that it be reduced rather than increased and I am not good today when I hear that the Stock Market is increasing it rather than reducing it. There is room for manoeuvre when the cost...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to mention one other matter.