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Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: This has to be dealt with because it is manifesting right around the country. They are laying down the law that one must stay six inches up from the top of the water. Depending on the day that one looks at the river, the river could be two or three feet higher. Inland Fisheries Ireland must be brought to task or else-----

Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----the rest of the country will be flooded and we will all be flooded if this continues. I am asking the Minister of State to deal with this.

Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I would not like to deprive Deputy Ryan of anything.

Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: In the past 18 months, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae and I have consistently raised the issue of people on three and four year waiting lists for cataract procedures and teenagers waiting four or five years for orthodontic treatment. There are five Ministers with responsibility for health and any number of HSE managers who are being paid a fortune. It is difficult for people who are languishing...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration (21 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding VRT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39998/17]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It went out under the Minister's name. I am not blaming him, but his statement said that he was going to take people out of urban areas and take them out to rural areas to house them. I want him to tell me how many vacant houses or how many houses are ready for habitation in County Kerry which I represent. We do not have houses for the people we have on our own housing lists. Forget about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Report: Dr. Mary Murphy and Dr. Rory Hearne, NUI Maynooth (20 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Every day we hear figures of money being announced for housing here and there. Let us take Kerry, for example. Going back to sometime in late 2015, €62.5 million was announced for housing in Kerry. To date, we certainly have not got €10 million of that. In 2013, eight houses were to be built in Killarney. Four years later there has been much toing and froing between the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Report: Dr. Mary Murphy and Dr. Rory Hearne, NUI Maynooth (20 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes. Money is announced here every day but we cannot build houses if we do not give it out. The money is being held up by the Department. Does the Government have the money or not? These talking shops will build no houses if the Government and the Minister do not approve the funding and give the money to the local authorities. The local authorities were building houses before I came on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Report: Dr. Mary Murphy and Dr. Rory Hearne, NUI Maynooth (20 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Deputy O'Dowd said that the local authorities had lost their way and were not building houses. That is what I heard him saying and if anyone else heard something different-----

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Issues (20 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 154. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to implement measures to protect local manufacturers in view of the adverse effects of Brexit on the economy (details supplied). [39269/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Recruitment (11 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 792. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address hiring issues within the HSE (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36962/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (11 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 919. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the pilot community ophthalmic services medical treatment scheme announced in 2008 and currently offered in seven locations is funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37236/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Investment Plan (11 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1503. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will include a road (details supplied) in the capital investment plan for 2016 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36964/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care Provision (26 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 966. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the community ophthalmic medical services scheme is not yet rolled out despite being announced nine years ago; the counties and locations the pilot scheme is currently being offered in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35910/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (26 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which the Government will resolve the impact the new retirement age of 68 years of age will have on persons and businesses that had not anticipated this (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35909/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (26 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1703. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason his Department stipulates that gross income be used to assess if persons can become local authority applicants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36527/17]

Summer Economic Statement 2017: Statements (13 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The improvements we hope to get in the budget are very important because many people have been left behind for years. The big imponderable is Brexit and how adversely it will affect our country and the people who work and try to survive here, especially those in agriculture. I heard some commentator this morning say that many English people believe the UK should not leave if it does not get...

Mortgage Arrears Resolution (Family Home) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Fianna Fáil and Deputy Michael McGrath for giving us an opportunity to talk about this important matter. Even though it has been discussed all along the way since I first came up here 17 months ago, many people are still in a great deal of trouble. One's home is one's castle, or it should be. There is nothing wrong with Fianna Fáil's proposal to set up an independent...

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: They say great minds think alike and fools seldom differ. While we have not been talking about it, I want to raise the same thing.

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government committed €950 million extra to the HSE this year. Without fear or favour I can safely state there has been no improvement in the numbers waiting for cataracts procedures or orthodontic treatment. Where is the money going? How is it that University Hospital Kerry, Tralee is still overcrowded with people on trolleys in the middle of the summer? Community hospitals...