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Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: If what is happening in Ireland today was happening in Third World countries, there would be uproar. The Deputy is a young Minister and I understand he is trying to do his best but the fact is the system we have is not working. The HSE, as a body, is supposed to be helping our sick and vulnerable people who are in trouble, but it is not working out for many people. As I have stated here...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: A commitment was given in the programme for Government to assist the agriculture industry and farmers, especially young farmers. The aim was to lower the age profile of the farming community and revitalise the sector. Before Christmas, Teagasc made a request to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for assistance to deal with the backlog of 3,600 young farmers who are seeking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Chairman. I am not clear as to what percentage of people in Scotland and Wales are on their own private supplies or group schemes that they have to maintain themselves, that are not part of the public supply. How much is charged for someone building a new house to get a connection to the public supply? Are they charged at connection stage? Is there a levy? We are being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Do they have to pay a levy as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is an infrastructural fee as well as a connection fee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: How much is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to ask the Minister a question on behalf of the road hauliers. They maintain they are being over-regulated and that they are being driven down to the ground by so many different road authorities and the associated enforcement. The Garda and roadworthiness certificates are examples. Lorries have to be tested every eight weeks as well. Then the RSA comes along, even where the lorry is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is what I am being told. There are approximately five strands of regulation for commercial vehicles.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: If the Chairman will allow me to discuss the matter raised by Deputy O'Keeffe, is the Minister aware that, in rural Ireland, many farmers and smaller operators have vans? Since these are deemed to be commercial, they have to obey the lower limit of 20 mg even when they are just using it to go home in the evening after work or so on. They only have one vehicle but they are being treated the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: What does the Minister think of my story about the man with the van using it to get home from work? He has to abide by the 20 mg rule like the driver of an articulated lorry or coach. That is very unfair on the types of people in rural Ireland I am talking about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister.

Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is about rural Ireland, transport and getting in and out of rural Ireland. We have no business here at all if we cannot affect those people.

Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is very important. The bus was packed full. I am calling on the Taoiseach and the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to get into meaningful talks with Bus Éireann and others to ensure the Expressway routes continue to operate and provide people in rural Kerry with transport back and forth from the county. I call on them to take action now to prevent the strike that is...

Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: We want to keep it going.

Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government needs to be involved.

Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Under the programme for Government many things have been promised to help rural Ireland. Little has happened yet. The other evening I was standing at O'Brien's shop in Glenflesk on the side of the N22. The number 40 Expressway bus passed on the way to Killarney and Tralee.

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Deer Lodge, a 40-bed unit in Killarney to treat mental health patients, was completed in June 2015. The HSE promised before Christmas that it would open this year.

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It was in the programme for Government that this facility would open. Is the Government responsible for health or not? The HSE promised that it would open this year. Last week,The Kerrymanreported that it will not open this year. Where is the funding going for health or what is happening at all? If this 40-bed unit is not opened this year, will it be knocked down? Will it be sold? What...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There appears to be a discrepancy. Transport Infrastructure Ireland has said it will cost €230 million. The Minister is saying it will cost €160 million. The lesser figures surely make it more attractive to get it going quicker. IBEC said yesterday that we have the lowest capital investment programme in Europe, even though interest rates and money were never cheaper. We...