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Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am also very glad with regard to farm safety. Farm safety is very important to all of us and we have an additional 17% of funding which will bring us to €3 million. This Government takes very seriously the issue of farm accidents and farm deaths. I am very glad to be able to support an AgriAware scheme for schools. We have people going out to marts dealing with farmers, not just...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----if you were going to be fair and balanced about it, you would have to welcome them.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is very easy to just shout and roar about negatives-----

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----but at the end of the day, if you are telling the truth and going in a straight line and not like what happened last night, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: A person from over there went on Facebook and told blatant untruths.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: That is about all the Deputy would be good for.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: Mary Lou is delighted with the reduction in the VAT. She said she would do it a couple of months ago if she had power. She is delighted.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: We have to stay quiet now, do we?

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Deputies can shout and roar all they like but when they start speaking we are all supposed to be silent.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: Does Deputy Doherty ever shut up, no?

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will tell the Deputies one thing they will not do.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will tell the Deputies one thing they will not do here. This is very serious now. They might bully or threaten someone else but they will not-----

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----bully me and they will not shout me down.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: Try it any time you like but you will not win because I will not be intimidated.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am very glad to stand up here and support this budget. I do so on the following grounds. With regard to the VAT reduction for the hospitality sector and hairdressers, I have heard a lot of criticism by people to the effect that this is a budget for companies like McDonald's and that the VAT reduction is for them. I remind people that in the county I represent, many of our takeaway...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will answer that in a second-----

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: With regard to the VAT reduction, this is something that is most welcome in the tourism capital of the western world, which is County Kerry. We want to see that being implemented. I will be very frank and say that I would rather have seen it come into force next March rather than July, but that is an issue we will deal with again. However, when it comes to misinformation, I am very glad...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: 163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a licence exchange can be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53976/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Consumer Protection (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: 188. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for clarification on matters in relation to the EU fire regulation standard which is accepted as the equivalent of I.S.419:1988 for importing of furniture from European countries (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53988/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (8 Oct 2025)

Michael Healy-Rae: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if someone working with an ETB on a fixed-term contract for the fifth time could be given a full-time job (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54085/25]