Results 4,661-4,680 of 5,132 for speaker:Danny Healy-Rae
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (24 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Chairman told-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (24 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (24 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: At what particular time? I cannot stay here all the time and I want to be there for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (24 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: There are two parts to this meeting, session A and session B. Is it after the first session?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the officials for their attendance. I raised planning on the Order of Business, both today and yesterday, with the Taoiseach in the Chamber. The witnesses state in their document that the granting of planning permission in rural areas is one of their roles or they are responsible for whether or not we can have it. At the outset, I have to say we in Kerry have a great local...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: No planning would be worse.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I urge the working group not to forget the local fellas that live in the area that has been deemed to suffer intense urban pressure. Such people are denied planning even though they have been brought up and reared in a house located in the area but, unfortunately, do not have enough land to build a house. The rules stipulate that planning permission can only be granted to family members in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Department to remember that fact. The rule has hurt many people in many towns. The matter needs to be addressed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I appreciate that. I want to respond to Ms Alma Walsh on the disintegration of villages. I would like to take her to a lot of areas where villages are disintegrating and do not have a population around them. I could show her all of the empty houses that people left. As I said, there are 24 in one townland and 16 in another. One cannot get planning permission in those places now. We are...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I yesterday asked the Taoiseach about impediments and blockages to housing in terms of people being refused planning permission to build houses for themselves. Many people are now being blocked at a pre-planning stage because of designations in the county development plans. There are areas of intense urban pressure, stronger areas and weaker areas. There could be a young man in an area...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Many of them are.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Homes for people.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Local authorities are reflecting the planning guidelines given to them by the Government.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Local authorities are acting illegally.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Government must change the guidelines it is giving to the local authorities. That is where the Taoiseach is wrong.
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to talk on this matter. I am not sure what the proposed commission of investigation will achieve. It is too late. It is like closing the stable door when the horse has gone down the road. We, as a country, have had many tribunals, inquiries and reports and people out there are very sceptical about what they have achieved. There will be jurisdiction problems with...
- Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry. I do not know where I put it. I have it now. NAMA was set up by Government and when it was first set up, many thought it was a good idea. Many felt that if NAMA held on to property owned by people, companies or banks with financial problems for long enough, it would realise substantial funding for the State. There has not been enough transparency with NAMA. People ask me...
- Order of Business (23 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: They are being denied preplanning.
- Order of Business (23 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: House building is one of the Government's main objectives. However, many young couples and individuals are being denied the ability to build their own houses because of the planning guidelines that the Department insists local authorities use. These young people have the money to build their own houses, they have the sites and they have the need. However, the guidelines are preventing many...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (18 May 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I refer to respite care for children with mental and physical disabilities. The Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, travelled to County Kerry and announced that he had secured several million euro to address the issue. I can tell the House that a respite care service is only being provided for four families at a time in Kilmona in north Kerry. Why is St. Mary of the Angels in...