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Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK’s Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (9 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am happy to speak on this matter. We have all said it, but the Ceann Comhairle called this the most serious matter to confront the country in a very long time. IBEC and other organisations, including the IFA, claim it will impact more on rural areas than on cities and greater urban areas. If we think of how things were in the period before we joined the EU, although they have improved a...

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will the Taoiseach bring this Bill out of the bundle so it can be dealt with here in the Chamber?

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Somewhere in the bundle of Bills down in the basement or wherever they are that are to be gone through is legislation to allow elderly people who wish to stay in their homes rather than go into nursing homes to get money from the fair deal scheme. Time is not on their side. I ask that the Taoiseach root out the Bill and bring it before the Dáil. People who wish to stay in their homes...

Inland Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will not be supporting the Bill because many people are being prosecuted in the wrong. We need to know how many people were prosecuted in the wrong. They must have the fines returned and their characters restored before I will vote for anything like this. This Bill is intended to protect fish stocks, which is a goal I support. I support fishing, the tourism product it creates and the...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a compelling need for a new maternity hospital which must be built as soon as possible. We need a modern hospital for mothers and children-to-be, built to the best standards in the world because the people of Ireland are entitled to it. I heard Deputy Michael Harty call for the maternity hospital to be co-located with St. Vincent's University Hospital, but I would have thought the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The programme for Government supports the transfer of landholdings from older farmers down to the younger generation. However, in recent times the farming courses by which farmers obtain green certificates are being intensified and lengthened. This is fine if a young fella is coming into a big farm or a farm that is economically viable. He will survive on that landholding with that farming...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2016: Discussion (3 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Chairman. I am glad to have the opportunity to say a few awards. I thank Deputy John Brady for opening up this debate. Many people I have known certainly did not want to retire and, sadly, they did not live very long after retirement. A few of them were depressed and felt bad about it. Others did not live until the day they were due to retire.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2016: Discussion (3 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very much in favour of allowing a person to retire when he or she felt, as Deputy Clare Daly stated, still capable of doing the job. Some people are still very capable at the point of retiring. There is another side to it that we must be wary of, for example, where teachers retire and for some reason or other are re-employed. This is depriving young teachers of jobs, but I do not...

Mental Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Browne for tabling this very important Bill on the agenda so we can highlight what needs to be done to help people with mental health issues. I have highlighted this in Kerry many times. We have a wonderful new facility which in June will be complete and fully built for two years but is still not open. Public representatives and many others were taken on a tour of this...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not want any more figures. I know what is happening on the ground. The people of Kerry are just as entitled to their sight as those from any other part of the country. We told the Taoiseach about the Sligo model where someone who presents with a need for regular treatment will be seen in six weeks. If it is more serious, they will be seen after that in 12 weeks and if it is more...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to raise a matter of unfairness and the non-delivery of vital services in Kerry. I refer to cataracts. It is neither fair nor right that people of all ages have to wait for two or three years for a procedure. I will outline a couple of examples to the House. An 85-year old man, who is perfect in every way and is caring for his wife, needs a car to go to a shop and bring himself and...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Invasive Plant Species (2 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 58. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if rhododendron plants can be banned from sale (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13685/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses. It is good that we are meeting and that a review is taking place. I am sorry that, given the concerns and issues raised, the Minister is not present. I am sure he will vet what was said today, and it is very important that he does. As I see it, fishing in south-west Cork, Kerry, Dingle and the west is in trouble. From what we have heard, it seems that the quota...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am also very grateful for the education that I have received here today from the witnesses. I thank them very much for being so informative and being so well up on what is happening and what is not happening. Regarding Mr. Greg Casey's argument about fishing inside the baseline, I would also be of the opinion that anyone fishing inside the baseline should not be criminalised because he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am absolutely delighted to see the Rathmore Social Action Group before this committee today represented by Mr. Michael J. O'Mahony, Ms Samantha O'Shea and Ms Anne Fitzgerald. I wish to recognise all of the other members in Sliabh Luachra, especially Mr. Jerh O'Donoghue's wife, Eileen May, and his family, which has been very involved with him in the social action group. I recognise all the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Before the witnesses came in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have benefited a lot from the witnesses' attendance here today. As Ms Anne Fitzgerald mentioned, the request for multi-annual community support and funding is vital. The witnesses explained that it is no bother to get projects going or to get the building up but the issue is sustaining the service. We have learned from this meeting today and we will have to fight for funding to ensure...

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Promises were made in the programme for Government that in light of the fact that many rural Garda stations were closed, policing in rural areas would not be compromised. However, we find the Killarney division of An Garda Síochána is very short on numbers. Indeed Ballyduff Garda station, which is located in a town that has experienced of robberies, which was never signalled to be...

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It was promised that rural policing would not be compromised by the closure of Garda stations. Why is the Government not giving the numbers required to the Killarney division?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister referred to planning guidelines. The Minister of State, Deputy Michael Ring, said at another committee recently that the planning guidelines will have to be reviewed. The Minister should be aware that in urban areas there has been a prohibition in the county development plan which disallows people from urban areas to go just outside to the suburbs or to what is called areas...