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Northern Ireland: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to talk tonight about the North of Ireland. Even though we are furthest away from the Six Counties, it still concerns everyone in Kerry as much as it does the people of the rest of the country. Great progress has been made over the last 20 years, after the 30 years of bloodshed, loss of life and damage to communities caused by lack of employment prior to...

Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I thank Deputy Lawless for bringing this matter to our attention and for bringing this Bill before the Dáil. We have heard a lot about the Taoiseach's new strategic communications unit which is, in other words, a spin machine. He will spend €5 million on this project which will aid Government Ministers and ensure the favourable political fortunes of the Government. While...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: If that is the Deputy's reasoning for the Bill he is in the wrong box. I ask him to apologise to the people of Kerry because what he said in this Chamber is not a fact.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Those are not what I call rural areas.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach is marching on with Deputy Ross's Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill in order to please him or to pay him back for making up the numbers. It is not for the work he has done or for what he has achieved as a Minister. I welcome that more rural bus link services have been announced by Deputy Heydon. They will be a help to towns and villages at certain times. However, 38 buses will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are given the parameters of how much they can zone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I object strongly to this being described as the national plan from now to 2040. It is not good enough to cover the next three or four years, not to mind the next 20 years. I am not signing my name to this or approving it as our plan because then Kerry local authority will tell us this is the plan as set out by the Government and these are the Members who backed it. I object to this being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have been waiting 36 years for the Macroom bypass. Some of it will be built next year but it will not be connected to Ballincollig when many people thought it would be. While we are glad to have people coming to Killarney and County Kerry, the old Killarney bypass is badly congested. In 2004, we were shown grand plans in the Malton Hotel in Killarney for an improved bypass to be up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It has to be recognised that traffic volumes have increased everywhere. I do not think there is any plan to deal with this. Let us take my village of Kilgarvan, for example. The volume of traffic has increased. The volume going down through that quiet village is extraordinary. There are traffic jams now, something that never happened before in small towns and villages. That has to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: A person cannot live off the land alone. Many have part-time jobs somewhere else. A person cannot live on the land alone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: He is coming out with it now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: He wants to punish the small farmer. Is that what he wants?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: What is wrong with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It looks like that is what the Government is doing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister of State should try to carry on giving an answer.

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Three years?

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It badly hurt many people that the Minister a couple of weeks ago said that elderly people were going to be means-tested for home help. That is shameful and disgraceful when a proper service is not currently being provided. Many people only get a half an hour of home help in the morning and the same in the evening, amounting to five hours per week. Such people do not receive any assistance...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There was. A report in a newspaper stated that was being considered.

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to be part of the group which brought this motion before the Chamber tonight. It is imperative that all of us, as elected Members, ensure that our elderly people are looked after properly and to try, as far as possible, to keep them in their own homes as long as we can. We all know that nursing homes give people great attention and great care. However, if one asks the residents...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: She would get 20 hours of home help in Cork, but only ten in Kerry. That is the truth.