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Questions on Promised Legislation (18 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister of State announced that he was allocating money to deal with the issue but it has not reached County Kerry. We have to wait until the very last. Where is the money from the HSE? Why are people not receiving help? They are in a desperate state.

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Michael McGrath and the Fianna Fáil party for putting this motion before the Chamber and for giving us the opportunity to discuss this very serious matter of which, as public representatives, we are reminded every single day and maybe several times in any one day. Young drivers cannot get realistic quotes that they can afford to pay. I am of the belief that one should...

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: In dealing with the housing crisis the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, mentioned the repair and loan scheme. Last March he said the scheme was being rolled out in Carlow and Waterford. When will it get as far as County Kerry? When I come up the road every day, I look to see if I could meet any fellow who is rolling anything in our direction, but so far I have not met anyone. I am...

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach looked very well in the Irish Examinertoday in between the two of us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Anything I say is not aimed personally at today's two witnesses. They have been sent in here to do a job. I am sent in here by the public to do a job. I do not represent vintners. I am a publican and I have never hidden that. I live in the pub. The people I represent have told me that this is a crusade to further isolate people in rural Ireland. On a previous occasion I attended a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The understanding out there is that regardless of licence, if a person drives a jeep, small van or tractor to town, he or she would be in the 20 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood bracket.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is the understanding out there. The other question relates to alcohol being a factor. The witness seems to be saying it is a factor. What percentage is that factor? What else was involved? That is what we need to know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: So there could be many other overriding factors, as well as alcohol?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many people would agree with me in saying that if a person eats too much before getting behind the wheel of a car, he or she would be a danger on the road as that person could fall asleep after a big meal. When I go home this evening, I will not eat before getting behind the wheel because I know what it will do. There could have been many other overriding causes for accidents as well as the...

Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are elected here to represent all of the people. While I am here, I will always strive to do that fairly. I am a Catholic and I am not ashamed to say that. I believe, however, that all people of other religious views are entitled to those views. I respect their views but I want to be respected, too. Since I came here, however, there has been a continuous onslaught against the Catholic...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am pleased to speak to the Bill as it deals with a matter that affected many people when they presented at a hospital and the right result was not achieved for them. This is an issue that does and will continue to affect many. As the Minister mentioned, open disclosure is about an open, honest and consistent approach to communicating with patients and their families when things go...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is he gone that long?

Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many farmers are being blackguarded when it comes to the current system. We asked the Government to review it. Where farmers' payments are being held up due to small misdemeanours, why can they not be paid 75% of what they are owed and the matter at issue dealt with after that? That is what we are asking to be done. These people have to live, they have to put food on the table and they...

Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It was promised that the appeals system would be reviewed and that something would be done about it but nothing has been done.

Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: No, I would not-----

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach has not done that.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences Renewals (16 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 545. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason it is it not possible for persons in County Kerry to renew their licences in their local post office (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22902/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is no-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to know the basis for the previous and current Governments' dislike of Leader companies. Rural areas have not had a Leader programme since 2013. It takes 18 stages to get a programme going and it is clear we will not have one in place until 2018. Five years without a Leader programme is not good enough. Rural Ireland is being hurt again. I am glad the Minister for Arts, Heritage,...

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad of the opportunity to talk on this important motion. On the one hand, the sale of AIB to reduce our debt is laudable, but where does this leave the surety of a bank service for the people in rural sparsely populated areas? If the new owners decide to take banks out of rural towns, what will the people do then? They will have to travel longer journeys. The people have stood by...