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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 499. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment with a specialist will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46894/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 522. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) will be called for a medical appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47001/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Schemes (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost-rental schemes that have been approved in each of the months April to August 2022; the number of units involved; the locations of each these schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46413/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Schemes (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has issued price guidelines for the purchase of turn-key homes in each local authority area; and the amount that has been recommended and approved for three-bedroom semi-detached houses in each local authority area. [46414/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Schemes (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes that have been approved and contracted in each local authority area in each of the months April to August 2022; if he will identify their locations and numbers of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46415/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Schemes (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the price guidelines that his Department has issued for the prices of affordable homes in each local authority; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that houses that are fully compliant with current regulations are available at these prices in each location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46416/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding SUSI grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46393/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 308. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to publish the Disability Capacity Review Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46397/22]

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: Teddy McCarthy, a diesel engine mechanic, garage proprietor, petrol seller and bus operator from Sneem in County Kerry recently recounted to me the following. I will not name the vehicles involved because it would be wrong to do so. No more than naming people who cannot be here to defend themselves, naming the vehicles could be very damaging to the people who produce them. I will say they...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: Perhaps the Red Bull will give them wings. I would like to see something connecting the brain of the Minister with the reality of day-to-day living.

Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thanked the Minister in a public forum the other day but I thank him again. On a personal basis I followed his political career for decades and always admired him. I always knew he was a person of great capability and I am delighted to see him where I like to see him. Enough about that. At the outset I will tell a story of how FDI can work at its most practical level. In the town of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will tell the Minister the plan. There are four points. HVO is fossil fuel free heating because it is made from a waste. It should have a zero rate of carbon tax, zero duty and a VAT rate of 5% applied to it, if the Government is serious about climate issues in rural Ireland. It is not a fossil fuel, so why are we taxing it as such for heating? That is a good point. The Government...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I was shocked to hear the Minister proposing to ban gas and oil boilers by 2025. This is a huge mistake and I strongly urge the Government to review the facts and listen to the experts in this sector to solve the climate issue in the domestic heating sector. This is a knee-jerk reaction by the Minister that is damaging rural Ireland already. Firebird Heating Solutions, which is next door...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister is a failure. The people in government with him are failures. He is a disgrace. The Minister should go to the ploughing match, walk up and down-----

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----and see what the people will say to him and hear what they think of him. I pray on my bended knees-----

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----that he, like the Green Party in the North, will get his answer. I pray that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, which have lost rural Ireland forever and will never again get it back, will get their answer-----

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----the next time they go before the people. They forgot they were servants of the people.

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am sorry. All they did was to go on a rampage doing whatever they wanted to do. They will get their answer and that answer they will get.

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I want to tell the Minister about my experience at the National Ploughing Championships yesterday. He and his colleagues are considering banning ploughing in Ireland, which is another ridiculous suggestion.

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister of State can say "What?" but this is the same as a lot of the other madcap ideas the Government has had. I want to tell the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, that many people mentioned his name to me yesterday and asked me what in the name of God is that man trying to do to them. These were fine, respectable people from all parts of Ireland. I am telling the Minister the truth when...