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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Deputy Aird will have to talk to my brother. I am here myself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have never come up in the same car and I have to fight my own battles at the doors. If the Government parties promised €65 million or it is promised to the grain growers, I will be watching and insisting that they honour the commitment that was given. The other part of it is, though, that I do not want it to be taken out of the budget that the sheep farmers or any other farming...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am asking the witnesses that question because we are paying more to Ukrainian grain growers than we are to Irish grain growers. That hurts me because we have subsidised Ukraine in a very big way and are still doing it. I see the trouble the witnesses are in with the rented land. Our Government and our Administration should be supporting Irish farmers. As regards insisting now that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Mr. Doyle. As regards Mr. Matt Dempsey and the policy changes he is asking for, I am very interested in that and will be ensuring that at every opportunity I will be looking for that and raising it because we must have a level playing pitch at all times. That does not seem to be the case now. I may not be a grain farmer but I understand grain. We appreciate the attention given...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome each of the witnesses. We have a serious problem. Have the Department officials heard anything about the promise of €65 million for green farmers from the two main parties in the Government? They made an announcement in their pre-election manifestos. Have the officials heard anything about that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I only asked if they have heard anything about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Listen here, now, ye told the people of Ireland not to vote for independence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I hope they deliver. I also hope they do not take it from the sheep farmers. Anyway, I was amazed to hear Mr. Dempsey in relation to the differential between what is demanded of Irish farmers and farmers exporting into Ireland. We do not know what they are putting into the land to grow the grain. Do we do any checks on what is in the grain, what is driving the grain or how they grow it?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Has any assessment been done up until now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The word “may” will have to be taken out of it. It should be a regulatory proposal and the same standards will have to be insisted on from the people exporting in here as from these poor fellows behind my back who already have the standards demanded of them. There is an unfairness there that has to be sorted out. I am very concerned about it. We also have a serious health...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The last thing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: If we do not have grain in Ireland, one thing I know for sure is that we will not have straw to bed the cattle down below in Kilgarvan, County Kerry or anywhere else because if we do not have grain, we will not have straw. I do not see us importing it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a lot of talk about the carbon footprint and sequestering carbon, and these fellows are doing it automatically. They need to be compensated for that. If there is no other reason they should get help, that is a reason. We seem to be spending any amount of money on climate action and stopping fellows going here and going there and doing this and doing that, but these fellows are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is no such rule in the USA or the UK.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I appreciate that but time is of the essence here and I have a number of other questions to ask. With regard to the 270 bus route from Kenmare to Killarney, which is a great service, have the witnesses any notion in the world of developing proper bus stops with signs where the bus can pull in to set down or pick up people. We do not have that along the route. Some bus drivers will not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want Mr. Kent to check it as it is a very serious matter. Another issue is that for all the summer we were trying to get a bus run going for children in the Headford–Barraduff area. There were only nine children but ten are needed. Lo and behold, around the last week of August we found a tenth child, but we were then told we would have to wait until next year. One of the older...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will start where Deputy Michael Collins finished in relation to the 70-year-old rule. I spoke to Mr. Kent about this before and I am very concerned about it. The rule is ageist. Mr. Kent went as far as saying the RSA or some group was saying it would be a dereliction of duty to allow drivers of 70 or beyond to drive. What about all the 70-year-olds driving children to football matches,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was interacting with Mr. Kent earlier when our time ran out. I ask Mr. Kent to reply to me about the run with the nine children, which then had ten children. I want to elaborate a bit about Farranfore. I am incensed about that. There is a railway yard which facilitates people getting on the train for Tralee, Killarney, Dublin or whatever. The buses can go in there. There is a shelter...

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for giving us the opportunity to discuss the cost of insurance in the Chamber. We have done it many times before but I do not know if anyone has been listening to us. Clearly, there is not enough competition in the market. I honestly believe, and have said before, that when Seán Quinn was competing in the market for insurance and was an alternative, that was the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Reliefs (30 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 334. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on VAT rates for tourism and hospitality (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51955/25]