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Topical Issue Debate: Special Protection Areas Designation (31 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government and-----

Topical Issue Debate: Special Protection Areas Designation (31 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They can have all the airy-fairy issues they want to, but if they cannot pay the compensation, the land should be re-designated.

Topical Issue Debate: Special Protection Areas Designation (31 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yesterday I attended a briefing in the AV Room by a group of farmers from north west Cork, east Kerry, west Limerick and County Tipperary on the designation of their lands under the hen harrier programme, the lack of compensation for years and the scheme being put in place which they said did not adequately compensate them, following which the issue was discussed with them at a meeting last...

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: My question relates to the protection of farmers' incomes. Will the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine grant a pilot scheme to the people of Iveragh in south Kerry to eliminate tuberculosis by way of vaccinating and removing badgers? A total of 40 herds have gone down but it affects only 7% of the herd. The remainder of the animals in south Kerry are fine. We do not want to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Statistics (31 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 198. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an increase year on year on the number of children that present with autism and related problems in each of the years 2010 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4672/18]

Order of Business (30 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: One of the Minister of Transport, Tourism and Sport's proposals in the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill is that cars will be taken off unaccompanied drivers with a provisional licence and that those who own the cars will be jailed. It takes 22 weeks for a driver with a provisional licence to get a driving test in Killarney. This period is seriously too long. Why does the Government not do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome Mr. Sean Kelly, Mr. Kenneth Fitzgerald, Mr. Jason Fitzgerald, Mr. Morris Flynn, all the farmers in the Gallery and all those in the audiovisual room who are following these proceedings. These are all respectable, honest, hard-working people who have done nothing wrong and who did not set out to do anything wrong. They all love their land and the place where they live. Irrespective...

Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The vulture fund has told them they must get out. That is very wrong. I know of other cases where the people who got into trouble are prepared to pay back what they owe, with interest, and the vulture fund will not take it. As Deputy Mattie McGrath said, the vulture fund must have favourites or an idea that it can squeeze more money out of somebody else, but that is so wrong. We talk...

Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: In a short space of time, these principal contractors are back in action again. Much more needs to be done to rectify the wrongs that are being meted out to small suppliers, small operators, sole traders and families that work together to try to keep their household going because they get left behind when these fellows decide to pull the plug. They have everything organised, hid away,...

Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have to begin with the most important thing that is affecting so many small companies throughout the country. Firs, however, I must declare that I have an interest in a family plant hire firm. I must write it up and leave it here because I seem to be telling this story every day, and several times on some days. My brother also has a small shop, so I have to declare those interests. Small...

Shortage of Teachers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a scarcity of teachers all of a sudden. It has something to do with the postgraduate courses which are now two years instead of one. The cost then deters students because it costs around €15,000 to do it. Take the example of a young fellow from Kilgarvan or Kenmare, and I know one to whom this has happened. It is impossible to do the course without having a car since part...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I declare that I have an interest in a family plant hire firm. The programme for Government states that, as far as possible, we are to create and protect jobs. However, principal contractors are going bust and leaving many subcontractors without payments which were due. That means they go out of business in turn. It seems continuously to happen that after a few months the principal...

Report on the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is so much available for women and we should put more supports in place for them, if there is not already enough available by way of education, counselling or financial help to ensure they will be properly looked after because the other aspect is that many women who have an abortion are never the same again, but we do not hear about this. They have many problems, including...

Report on the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sure the Ceann Comhairle will appreciate that it is somewhat hard to start off again.

Report on the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I reiterate that I firmly believe that life begins when a baby begins to grow inside a woman. I believe it is a crime to take a life. Let us go back to what abortion is. People should educate themselves that abortion is stopping the right of a little baby to live or continue his journey into this life from the mother's womb. I was absolutely disgusted and so upset when I heard the way...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018 Second Stage: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am living over the pub.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018 Second Stage: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I appreciate that many tenants are in a desperate way. Aside from the cost of rents, landlords are terminating tenancies for different reasons. Many are terminating tenancies - we have to take them at their word - so that family members can move in to the houses. In other cases, where landlords cannot meet their outgoings, the houses have to be sold. They are entitled to take back the...

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raise the matter of GLAS payments to farmers. Farmers are hit two ways because they are not being paid for GLAS. One of the scheme's requirements is that farmers may not cut their meadows or cut silage until the month of July. What happened last year was that farmers along the west who were in GLAS obeyed the rules but were unable to cut their fodder when they went to do so because the...

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Where will this be dealt with because it is totally unfair?

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will he please come into this Chamber and explain what he was at? He reached across and pressed the Minister, Deputy Zappone's, button.