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Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: In recent days the HSE said it has lost €22 million because of people not attending appointments with doctors and hospitals. How did the HSE bulk up the amount to €22 million? How many people have died while they were waiting for an appointment?

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, it is.

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: My question is why it is still taking a year and a half and two years for people to have cataract operations. We spoke about the issue many times last year yet in 2017 the same thing is happening and we are getting letters saying people will have to wait for a year and a half and two years. That is not acceptable for the people of counties Kerry and Cork. Why can we not introduce the Sligo...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (17 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will receive DEIS status from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1096/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme (17 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1127. To ask the Minister for Health the position of the HSE review regarding the addition of new and improved products being added to the long-term illness scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1090/17]

Flood Prevention Measures: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I acknowledge that good work has started in some areas. However, many of the rivers and waterways for which the OPW claims it is not responsible are not being addressed. There should be one body responsible for ensuring that water can flow as freely as possible in all of the rivers. Every river in the country is blocked by both trees and silt. No farmer or land owner has been able to...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (13 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: As the Taoiseach is well aware, there is an understaffing of front-line nurses across all our hospitals and the current staff are under severe pressure. University Hospital Kerry in Tralee, Cork University Hospital and Killarney district hospital are all understaffed and that position is replicated throughout the country. The HSE has spent €250,000 advertising to attract nurses back...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (8 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 164. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase speech and language therapy services for children with disabilities in the Tralee and Killarney area in County Kerry, in view of the fact the current services are not satisfactory [39195/16]

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too am glad to speak on the housing and rental crises again. Nothing has been discussed more than this topic since I was elected to this House. It was mentioned in the programmes for Government day after day and even before I came up here it was discussed in Kerry County Council. So much has been said, but words are not enough because words will not build houses. These Bills will not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Matters Relating to Kerry Co-Operative: Revenue Commissioners. (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is a very serious matter in regard to which all of my colleagues have made important points. What many of us cannot understand is why it is that the Revenue Commissioners are only now getting into action. Mr. Phelan gave away a bit when he said the Revenue Commissioners only recently understood how this works. The first thing that needs to be clarified is that the farmers from Kerry or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Matters Relating to Kerry Co-Operative: Revenue Commissioners. (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Mr. Phelan said he only recently understood how this works. That signifies to me that it is new to the Revenue Commissioners and it is certainly new to the farmers and the professional people, such as accountants and tax advisers. They were not aware there was a liability even though they are professional people and had to go through the rigours to become accountants. They have letters...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Matters Relating to Kerry Co-Operative: Revenue Commissioners. (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: We never said that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Matters Relating to Kerry Co-Operative: Revenue Commissioners. (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: In his own words, Mr. Phelan only recently understood how this works. I am asking that following the test case, if Revenue is found to be right, it only starts charging people tax from that point forward because it is wrong to be going backwards when nobody knew they were doing anything wrong, including their accountants and officials helping them submit their accounts.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a lot of concern about Bus Éireann. Will the Government ensure there will be a public bus service to serve rural communities, including in County Kerry, in order that especially those who can avail of free travel in places such as Killorglin, Killarney, Castleisland and Kenmare will have access to public transport? They have a right to use public transport just as much as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the delegates and congratulate them on the great work they do. I take this opportunity to thank the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, which does tremendous work in Killarney. As recently as yesterday, when the local community welfare officer refused to give any financial assistance to a family that was allocated a local authority house and needed to buy blankets to put on the beds,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will give the witnesses an idea of what A Vision for Change has meant for people in Killarney and surrounding areas. Twenty-seven people availed of the HSE's Lantern Lodge facility where they got a meal and could use the washing facilities. Under the new model, they are assigned to Leawood House on the Countess Road, where they will not get a meal, will not have access to showers, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am not sure how the Chairman's clock is working.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to ask the same question that was asked by two other members. Why are people being directed into towns and villages and away from the rural areas where they were reared? If an elderly person's house falls into disrepair, a rural cottage will not be built for him or her. Only three were built in Kerry in the past eight years. Where a fellow wants to stay with his few cattle where he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Nitrates Usage (6 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will extend the transitional agreements to allow pig and poultry farmers to spread their slurry and litter under the same terms as they are allowed to do up until the end of 2016 as the review of the nitrates regulations will not take place until 2017 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: People are waiting for up to two years for cataract procedures at Cork University Hospital. Can the Minister for Health operate the Sligo model in Cork University Hospital because the people of Kerry are disenfranchised and have to wait much too long? They will be blind for Christmas and for the next two years if these procedures are not rolled out.