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

Danny Healy-Rae: I am not being unfair, but I was out last weekend and got the lot of it. People are very disappointed. Now another set of people will be equally disappointed. They are the ones who cannot pay the cost of insurance and the Government is not doing anything about it. I am afraid that it will not do anything about it, but I am pleading with the Minister of State not to ignore our pleas...

Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for acceding to our request because the protection of small family companies in particular - I know so many of them - is paramount. It would be very harsh to make a law meaning they would have to apply to the High Court for this process because it entails costs such as hiring barristers. There is also the worry for people in these small companies, which would be too...

Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this because I have a gripe with regard to small companies having to go to the High Court to get the deadline extended. Today, I had contact from a person whose accountant was sick. That person received a fine because the deadline was missed by a few days. The small companies in my neck of the woods are all family-run operations. They have to...

Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Reduce the tax.

Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are told that the price of electricity is to rise by 9.3% and the price of gas by 12.8%. This will affect every man, woman and child in the country. Has the Government any power to regulate these people or control them? This is going to hurt poor people, especially those in receipt of the fuel allowance. Will the Government increase the fuel allowance? Will it intervene? I am asking...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are being taken here. If the Minister of State does not know who is going to appoint him, who does know?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am becoming more concerned as the debate goes on. As Deputy Mattie McGrath said, we will be fobbed off when it comes to the Minister and the regulator. The Minister must ask the regulator and the regulator must ask the Minister. I am very concerned about that. Regarding An Bord Pleanála dealing with developments of more than 100 houses, I am open to correction on this but my...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very concerned by the number of amendments that are being put before Members at this late stage. I am very worried about how the county development plans of local authorities would be affected by the measures proposed in the Bill and the effect on the national planning and development of our country. Amendment No. 16 states, "such provisions as (i) are required to be included in a...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I could name one but I will not do so tonight as the Ceann Comhairle has asked me not to.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is a very serious matter. It reminds me of a man who, long ago, was sent out to deliver a message by his sister, a post mistress, at a time when telegrams were the norm. He went up a road and met-------

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is the same thing. He asked my two uncles, who were young boys at the time, whether he had much further to go. They asked him where he was going. He told them to mind their own business and that he only wanted to know if he had much further to go. Amendment No. 16 is similar to that. We are being asked to agree to something but we do not know to what we are agreeing. I know what...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is the Minister of State or the Government involved in the drafting of the Bill? Is it written by civil servants? I want to know who put it together.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is the Minister of State happy with the Bill?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Make sure there is someone in charge of the regulators.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is fine. I hope I do not fall asleep because there is a lot-----

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Planning permission is important for people who just want to put a roof over their heads. They are not looking for money or handouts, they just want to be allowed to build houses for themselves. The Taoiseach, who was the Minister with responsibility for the environment in 2012, signed an order ensuring that the then National Roads Authority could not grant permission for new houses on...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Whatever Minister he was,-----

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----he signed it. I am sure about that. I am sorry.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: He was the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. I have been asking in many forums to have the order and the reasons behind it reviewed. It is the straightest road-----

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right. I will speak again later if I am allowed.