Results 5,021-5,040 of 5,132 for speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I must declare an interest. My family has a small plant hire business that has been repairing and replacing water pipes for more than 60 years in Kerry. We all realise that water is essential and that without it, none of us can survive. For various reasons, many parts of my county do not have water at certain times of the year. They do not have pipes running in front of their homes, so...

Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to raise with the Tánaiste and especially the Minister for Health the provision of orthodontic services for young schoolchildren in County Kerry. It has become apparent that there is a four to five-year waiting list. This is not on, especially for young girls and boys who are embarrassed to go out and meet their friends. They may not even have teeth when they finally receive...

Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is included under the heading of health. I want an honest response.

Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Post the envelope to Kerry.

Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The previous Government announced that this project was on the six-year investment programme. In which of the six years will that project be delivered? Will this project be in next year's Book of Estimates and, if not, will the Government bring it forward because we in Kerry have waited long enough? All the jobs being announced at present are for the eastern side of the county and we...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am delighted to get this opportunity to raise the matter of the proposed Macroom-Ballyvourney bypass which will run from the west of Ballyvourney to Coolcower in the east of Macroom bypassing Ballyvourney, Coolavokig and all those treacherous bends and beyond Macroom town where people are delayed in traffic for 30, 40 or 45 minutes. This project is of paramount strategic importance to all...

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Mobile phone coverage is very poor. It is patchy. The coverage is diminishing at an alarming rate in places that had coverage previously. It is not a good sign when some industrialist arrives in Farranfore Airport and goes a mile out any of the three roads from the airport only to find he or she has no mobile coverage. That is not acceptable. It is denying us the prospect of bringing...

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The most frequent request at the doors, when canvassing in general elections and council elections and at clinics and many other places, has been for proper broadband coverage. It comes from every sector - schools, farmers, business people, manufacturing companies, private residences, people working from home and students who want to study at home because they need to download information to...

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are seriously deprived in this regard.

European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The people of Ireland and Kerry are worried like never before about their future and Ireland's position among the European Union nations. Ireland is a small nation that depends a great deal on Europe. Any further break up of the European Union could seriously impact on Ireland's future. Ireland is a small nation surrounded by water, with no road access to mainland Europe. I call on the...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I had my hand up before the Minister finished talking about hedge cutting, an issue which has been lingering for too long. An extension of time was requested by my local authority going back Christmas 12 months. On that day, there was also a unanimous request to extend the period for gorse burning. I have a question for the Minister of State on rural water and group water schemes. Is he...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very concerned when I hear the Minister say other bogs will be designated.

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will those 500 people be allowed have their say? They are human beings and this will affect their traditional way of life. Will the Minister have any discussions with them before she designates those bogs?

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was very interested to hear the Minister of State, Deputy Ring, speak about the way he progressed the development of the greenways in his part of the country. We have a proposal for a greenway in south Kerry. It is an important and laudable project but it is running into difficulty in that a compulsory purchase order, CPO, process has been initiated. In recent days, unsavoury slogans...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister of State spoke about it in the same way that I would like to talk about it. The CPO process is being initiated in Kerry. I gather from the way the Minister of State spoke that the officials went down to speak to the people on the land and got agreement. They got other stakeholders to talk to the landowners as well. That is how we would have preferred our projects to be carried...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: We want it but I do not believe the CPO process is the way this is going to be delivered. I am unsure how we can liaise with the officials and get them to deal with the landowners, but that is the way to do it. I do not believe the CPO process is going to work and I am concerned about it.

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will start where I finished earlier regarding the greenways or "blackways", as Deputy Ó Cuív, called them. Why is a compulsory acquisition order required in respect of the areas involved in Kerry when that was not the way it was dealt with for the other greenways? I am concerned about the amount of funding the Minister said is available for the Leader programme. We have...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very concerned about that issue. I am also concerned that it will be mainly administered by the local community development committees, LCDCs, rather than Leader partnership companies. That is a big cutback for rural areas compared to the bottom-up approach we had with the partnerships. The populated areas, with which I have nothing against, will probably benefit more than the rural...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am aware that the Minister is interested in this because this is what is involved when discussing rural Ireland. We must address this issue, return the funding and make discretionary funding available to the local councillors whereby they can nominate two or three roads each year which are not getting attention through any other means.

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I cannot believe the Minister. It is like the loaves and the fishes in that one must have the power to multiply. That would mean funding for our county roads and local roads would have been reduced, and the massive volume of traffic is from local areas into towns. I did not talk about the local improvement scheme. We are told, and I must believe our county manager, that there is only...