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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I saw every bit of it. Glin and Abbeyfeale are the nearest to Asdee and Duagh. Nine post offices in one circle in north Kerry are being closed, including Ballylongford, Ballymacelligott, Moyvane, Kilflynn and Asdee. If a few more are gone the only places people will be able to go is Listowel, Tarbert and Tralee. That is all that will be left in north Kerry. Mr. McRedmond could run the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Are these people going to be disenfranchised? Many of them work in Munster Joinery. They have one car and their wives cannot travel down to Rathmore, Barraduff or Headford for the next nearest post office. The Minister and Mr. McRedmond are finishing these people as a community.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Are they going to help them to retain their identity? These are people in Kerry who are outside the Red Cow Hotel. The post office in Ballinskelligs is closing and the next nearest post office is in Waterville. It is 12 miles from one post office to the other but some people will have to travel almost 20 miles, and they cannot get a taxi. Mr. McRedmond does not realise this. The Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I came here this morning especially to represent the people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There were 170 people in a hall in Moyvane and their hearts were on the ground after getting this news. I must go back to them to explain what it will mean. I appeal to the Minister to put somebody in these places and pay them. There are people in the GPO who have been paid for the past ten years for doing nothing there. There are hundreds of people there and they are not accountable to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The witness mentioned that he might do something with them. It is not fair to leave people in a places such as Gneeveguilla and Ballylongford without a post office at the stoke of a pen while we were on holidays and unable to tackle the Minister about it or to voice the opinions of the people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: However, we will be back on 18 September because what is happening is not fair or right.

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government seeks to protect the environment throughout the country. Yet, there are three lovely villages in Kerry that do not have sewerage treatment plants, namely, Scartaglin, Currow and Beaufort. With Irish Water and the set-up in place, there is no way forward for these communities to access or get sewerage treatment plants. What are they going to do about it?

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is to protect our environment.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Tánaiste. I agree with him that consultants and doctors have the knowledge but they are prevented from signing the applications because it looks like they are not indemnified by the HSE and that liability will fall to them. Time is not on the side of many of these patients. I am asking the Government to do something, by statutory instrument or whatever, to allow the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Clearly they are afraid.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to thank the Ceann Comhairle for his kind remarks at the start of this session, and I want to thank him and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the professional way that they run this Chamber. Indeed, I thank all the Oireachtas Members from all sides and all the people around the country who work and strive to keep Ireland ticking over, from the highest-paid executive to the people on the...

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the approval of a GP card for our carers. It should be a full medical card on account of the great work they do. Many are family members who give up their jobs and their time to care for their parents or other relatives who would have no one else to care for them and they get little respite or time for themselves. I agree with Deputy Collins. The home help service is 30...

Implications of Brexit for Irish Ports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important matter. We do not know what will happen with Brexit and neither does the Minister of State. We need to be ready and ensure that our ports, including Rosslare, are up to scratch. The customs process must also be ready in order that we can still trade with the UK if it still wishes to trade with us. Likewise, the roads infrastructure...

Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government is allocating massive sums of money to the HSE. Some of it is very well spent and some of it not being well spent at all. It is a known fact that when people who break their legs and get crutches seek to hand back the crutches, they will not be taken back. These crutches cost money. Likewise with a patient who is in a wheelchair. The wheel on the wheelchair broke and he...

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thought that after two and a half years something would be done to help young people to get insurance at a reasonable cost. I gave several weeks to discussing the programme for Government and pulled out before I had finished because most of the stuff I was putting into it was being pulled out as fast as we were putting it into it. I did, however, think the Government would do something...

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They were untruths. I am not naming any particular man, but the rumour was spread by the Government that the cost of insurance had gone down by 17%. That is certainly not true. There are all sorts of racket going on. If an area is designated by the catchment flood risk assessment and management, CFRAM, programme as being in danger of being flooded, owners of houses in its vicinity will...

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They cannot get insurance. One event is not going ahead this year because it could not get insurance. It was a mighty event that brought people from all over south Kerry to it, but it will not go ahead this year.

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: No, it is not Puck Fair, but it was a mighty event.

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many people were involved in it and gave much of their time doing voluntary work, but they could not take the chance and go ahead this year because they could not get insurance. This is the Minister of State's and the Government's time. They should be doing something about the cost of insurance for young and old, but they are not. It has all kinds of Bill to see after Ross because he will...