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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.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I am glad the constituency of Kerry has remained a five seater with 147,000 people to represent. There are a couple of discrepancies in relation to Rathmore, where part of the parish is on the Cork side, and it would be great if we could get it returned to us as it was taken from us. This comprises six townlands, namely, Rathduane,...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: My colleague behind me, Deputy Michael Collins, is very lucky for the present because Berehaven, Ardgroom, Eyeries, Dursey Island, Allihies and Cahermore on the brink of the Atlantic Ocean were part of the Kerry constituency previously. We would have no bother in representing those people if they came back to us, and a lot of them are anxious to come back to us. The constituency of Kerry...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----Killorglin, Caherciveen, Dingle, Tarbert and Ballybunion and all of those lovely places. It is the finest place and it is well able to accommodate everyone that comes. Whether they come from Hong Kong, Texas or wherever, they are all wonderfully looked after by the mighty people of Kerry. If there is an oil strike, or if anything like that happens outside of our control, we have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte's Annual Report for 2016 and Climate Change: Discussion (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the delegation from Coillte. I have worked for Coillte over the years and my father started working for it in 1951. The Department has a rule that if one wants a grant to plant land, one must have 80% of green ground with only 20% of rough ground allowed. I do not know what type of county the Chairman comes from but in Kerry, particularly south Kerry, we have more like 80% rough...