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Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Kerry is a big county and there are rural places-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach promised he would open six Garda stations. Where are they being opened?

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: If there is room for a late one, I-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: My question is on promised legislation. The previous Government, led by the Taoiseach, closed many Garda stations around the country. People are suffering because of that. Many homes in Glenflesk and other rural parts of Kerry were plundered and had valuable items taken from them in recent times. There is hardly any Garda presence in the entire Kenmare Estuary to defend communities...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: On promised legislation, the Government has committed to the opening of six Garda stations. Has the Taoiseach met the Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O'Sullivan, to agree the six Garda stations to be opened? Will some of these be in south Kerry, especially since the whole 55 mile stretch from Kenmare to Caherciveen is left without a Garda station? Will some of them be restored? Will...

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is not happening in my area.

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: On the same issue----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the delegates from the NTA. They should not take my comments personally. I am very disappointed over comments I have heard here today on giving out licences and allowing operators to decide themselves what runs to do. As elected members, our primary reason for being here today is to ensure rural people have a transport service, including a bus service. They are entitled to a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: When I hear about the cut affecting the route from Clonmel to Dublin, what hope have we from Caherciveen to Tralee and from Killarney to Cork? I cannot understand what has gone wrong. My daughter gets on the No. 40 bus on a Sunday evening and comes back on a Thursday or Friday. It is always full and she is standing on it most of the time. What has gone wrong? Bus Éireann...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was not here and I am sorry. I would have been here had I known about it. It is clear that we need an answer from Bus Éireann on the routes it is cutting. If the NTA is able to subsidise, how can it say it can consider subsidising certain routes if the operators are deciding which routes they will service? Surely the authority should decide in the first instance which routes need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: We were told Bus Éireann would go bust in March. The date has now been deferred until 1 May. What will happen the company's schools contract? Mother Teresa died and there is no one else to operate. What will the Department do if Bus Éireann goes bust? What contingency plan is in place for the operation of the schools contract?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I operate a very small bus service. I continued to operate my father's business, which he was operating since 1956. It is important that I be up-front about this. Many children throughout the country will be stranded, particularly in rural areas, if the company goes bust and the school bus service will not be provided. What contingency plan is there to ensure the service will continue to...

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: This system is hurting many small companies in that they are not allowed to tender for contracts but they end up doing the work for the larger company that comes into the local area to supply the contract. Ten companies in the country are running the contracts involving all the jobs now. The local traders are only left with the crumbs. They do not get the proper value out of the jobs that...

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will give the Deputy one minute.

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: One of the biggest things hurting rural Ireland today in places such as County Kerry is pre-qualification tenders in which previous years' turnover are taken into account before a company is allowed to tender for many of the public works that happen around our county. Massive sums of money are required - €10 million or €20 million. Local companies, which actually finish up...

National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very glad to get the opportunity to speak to this very important Bill before us. I thank Deputy Brophy for putting this Bill together to ensure the people who died so tragically at that time are at least commemorated once per year. It is very important to do that because if we do not know how we got here, we certainly do not know where we are going. As a contractor I have been into...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: These people are eligible.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (21 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason schools (details supplied) were not included in the DEIS plan 2017- new DEIS schools list published on 13 February 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8610/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 501. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); when the person will be called for a cataract operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8739/17]