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Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: What will the Government do about this? What will it do about the Irish banks that are so slow to lend to small builders and developers? Without funding they cannot build houses.

Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Of course it is.

Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It was supposed to be a priority for the Government and if not, it should give up.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (4 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 614. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the assistance he will provide to a community in County Kerry to establish a fibre optic line from locations (details supplied) to benefit the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16030/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I suppose there is no hope the Government will pay the farmers the GLAS payments.

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is the order of business that they were to be paid.

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is in the programme for Government to protect farmers' incomes. Over 4,500 farmers are still waiting to be paid.

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: They were promised payment before the end of last year. It is next year's payment or last year's payment that they are now to be paid? I am asking the Government to give up the blackguarding and pay the people. If the Exchequer were owed revenue or income tax, it would have to be paid.

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is very difficult to know what is going on. The Government has stated it will accept refugees. I asked what agency will deal with the people involved and where they will be housed. It was stated that local authorities would be responsible for housing the refugees concerned. The local authority for which I worked for many years does not have the required houses, facility or staff to...

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important motion. I welcome all the people in the Visitors Gallery who have given so much time to this very important matter. We all want a proper children's hospital for all of Ireland. I was very disappointed when I read in the Minister's speech that this hospital is to serve the greater Dublin area, Meath, Kildare and Wicklow.

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The people in Kerry and west Cork are also entitled to the best care, as well as the places mentioned in the Minister's speech. Parents will inevitably have to bring children from faraway places like Valentia, Slea Head, Ballybunion, Lauragh, Cahermore, the area west of Castletownbere, Sneem and many other places. Nine out of every ten children will have to come in by the M50. Of course,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Border Counties: Discussion (29 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses. Usually we ask questions and expect to get answers, but I can see the witnesses are asking as many questions as I am going to ask because we are in total limbo. I cannot give them answers. When they speak of Brazilian beef coming into England, if there is some deal done between England and Brazil, what is to stop it coming into the North of Ireland? If one does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Border Counties: Discussion (29 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Mr. O'Hara for that. That is what I wish for. We can ask the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May, to give back the Six Counties and make it part of the Thirty-two Counties again but, like the late Mrs. Margaret Thatcher previously, she will say, "Out, out, out." I cannot see how Mrs. May will agree to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Chairman very much. I respectfully ask the Minister to intervene in whatever way he can, to get involved or to mediate between the unions and management for the simple reason that the Minister is responsible for public transport in the State. Whatever happens we must have public transport for the people who do not have cars or those who are not able to transport themselves. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have one last thing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am not asking the Minister to bring money; I am asking him to get involved. I am asking something different to other requests and for the Minister to get involved to see if he can sort out the situation.

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: In light of the revelations that the breathalyser figures are incorrect, I call on the Government to withdraw the Road Traffic Bill before the Dáil. The Government proposes to further penalise drivers caught with a blood alcohol concentration of between 50mg and 80mg per 100ml by talking their licences and putting them off the road. This will have a devastating effect in rural Ireland....

Money Advice and Budgeting Service and Citizens Information Centres: Motion (28 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too thank Deputy Willie O'Dea for giving us the opportunity to talk on this very important matter this evening. People with mortgage and financial problems relied on MABS. The local offices provided really valuable help and service to vulnerable people at pivotal times in their lives. The same is true of the Citizens Information centres, dealing with all the new rules and regulations for...

Money Advice and Budgeting Service and Citizens Information Centres: Motion (28 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: These vital services were invaluable to poor people who badly needed help and advice. What is the Minister trying to do, keep people in the dark and not let them know what they are entitled to? Shame on him if that is what he is doing. That is what it looks like to me.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I did not come to this meeting to bash or to thrash anybody. I am absolutely delighted to get the opportunity to put questions to these gentlemen on infrastructure projects. First, members have attended presentations in Buswells Hotel by organisations such as IBEC. In the view of IBEC, Ireland has the lowest level of infrastructure per capitathan in any other country in Europe. I want to...