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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (16 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35417/16]

Mental Health Services Funding: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Mary of the Angels in Beaufort caters for 77 people with very serious mental disabilities but there is a decongregation policy that suggests these people should be left to fend for themselves in community settings. The proposal, however, in this instance will break up a community setting. Sadly, there is no funding for this policy because it cost €600,000 a year to cater for one...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raise the scandalous legal memo that was sent by the bosses of the HSE to staff on how to deal with patients in our hospitals in which they were advised to use the minimum force on trespassing patients. It was a scandalous remark with which to describe patients who are sick in our hospitals. Is the Taoiseach aware that severe pressure has been put on staff to get patients out of our...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is. It is from the programme for Government, based on health reform and the improvement of services. What is happening here is that staff in general hospitals have been advised to get patients out of the beds to make room for other patients who are on trolleys. That is not the way to do it. What they are doing is insisting that families sign up to the fair deal scheme before they allow...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: To describe patients and sick people as trespassers in our hospitals is absolutely scandalous. The Taoiseach will have to tackle what is happening on the ground because it is an absolute disgrace.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Remit (10 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 236. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the care homes caring for elderly priests are not subject to regulation by HIQA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34200/16]

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is a scandal. The man does not have a car and has to travel 19 miles to be seen every week. He must thumb for a lift on a national primary route as he cannot cycle that distance to the office. He is hoping someone can drive him in and out of the town in question. He is in receipt of €100 per week. It appears to me that Turas Nua wants to keep him going to the office so that he...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Self-employed sole traders who have paid thousands of euro and, previously, punts in tax who find their work runs out for a while cannot access any social welfare payments for at least 12 months during which there is no money coming in. It is very unfortunate. It is very unfair when one thinks of all the tax they have paid and the people they have, in many instances, employed. If some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, welcome the delegates from the banks, the credit unions and An Post. All of these facilities are important in the part of the world from which we come - rural Ireland. Since the recession people no longer know their bank managers or bank officials in the way they used to know them. I am sorry to say I agree with Deputy Martin Heydon that power seems to have been taken from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Let me have just a few more seconds. I am sure there are other services that could be offered. For instance, I cannot understand why the Government put a system in place covering all of County Kerry under which a person has to drive from Caherciveen, Valentia Island, Ardgroom, Eyeries and Lauragh to Tralee to renew a driving licence. It is ridiculous. Post offices could have operated the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have to ask the representatives of the banks a question I missed. There was an assurance given by the banks that they would offer low interest loans to a certain number of farmers in the new year. I ask that the scheme be extended to beef farmers and that there be no limit on the number of people who will qualify under it. Farming has reached a critical point. All sectors are under...

Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am grateful to get this opportunity to ask the Minister for Health about Lantern Lodge in Killarney. Twenty-seven long-enduring patients with mental health disabilities are being asked to move to a new facility at Leawood House on Countess Road in Killarney.

Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, it does. The programme for Government contains a commitment to assist people with mental health disabilities. I will put the scenario to the Taoiseach because the Minister has gone. People with long-enduring disabilities were getting a meal at the Lantern Lodge facility. They are being moved across town now. They have been told they will not get a meal and they will not have...

Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why is the Government allowing this to happen to the most vulnerable section of our community? On top of the recent proposal to close the St. Mary of the Angels facility in the town of Killarney, it is proposed to hurt 27 more people. Why is this being allowed?

Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is the truth.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the people from the OPW and the CFRAMS engineers to today's meeting. It is good to get an opportunity to raise the flooding issues that have been inflicted on the people of County Kerry in recent years. Who is responsible for what? Who is accountable for sorting these problems out? I firmly believe the reasons our rivers are flooding can be linked to the system of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: During periods of very dry weather there are many - perhaps too many - gorse fires across County Kerry which often have to be tackled by up to five fire brigades, but they are powerless because they cannot move off the road. Fire service personnel are very good, but they can only do so much. Why does the service not use excavators to open a fire belt to stop a fire from spreading? We have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am pleased to be given an opportunity to meet the witnesses. I thank them for attending. It is significant that all the Deputies present are from rural areas. Perhaps members from towns and cities do not have as much interest in this issue or they may not experience as many problems as members from rural areas. As Deputies Michael Collins and Ó Cuív stated, it is vital that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the witnesses for attending. They made 100% effort to answer each of our questions. We have asked many other people many other questions and they were not able to answer but that was not the way with these witnesses. I will forever thank them for being so upfront and for doing their level best to answer our questions. We know they are under pressure and we are really grateful for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am pleased to get this opportunity to ask a few questions and to put my point of view across. I welcome the witnesses. I am pleased they are present. I do not know any of the witnesses and I have nothing personal against any of them. I have not said it before now but I think our health service is a shambles. We are going backwards not forwards with every aspect of it that I deal with...