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Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: At the outset, I have to declare that I have a small company operating in Kerry. I have to make the Dáil aware of this because it could be construed by some that I have a conflict of interest. However, I want to highlight concerns by small subcontractors in many parts of the country who are being put under severe financial pressure and are struggling to survive. Some are going under...

Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is on jobs and rural development, on page 42 of the programme for Government. Large payments of VAT and other taxes due to the principal contractors whom the subcontractors work for are being delayed, in many cases for long periods, by the Revenue Commissioners. The delay is rumoured to be caused by a shortage of staff in the Revenue departments. This is causing a vicious circle whereby...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (31 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 670. To ask the Minister for Health when a dental appointment will be provided to a person (details supplied). [12746/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (31 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 782. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for afforestation on marginal ground, given that it has completely stopped due to the requirement to have 80% of green ground and 20% of marginal ground to obtain grant aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12741/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Planning Issues (31 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 853. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene with Transport Infrastructure Ireland to put an end to the situation, following the signing into law of the spatial strategy in 2012, whereby planning applicants on the N22 road between Rathmore and Killarney find it impossible to get planning permission (details supplied). [12812/16]

Order of Business (25 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Taoiseach and the new Minister for Health, in light of the very disturbing article in yesterday's newspapers which highlighted that disabled and elderly persons' applications for home help would be delayed until later in the year, that this issue be dealt with in a proactive fashion, because elderly and disabled people do not have much time on their side. When they need help to get...

Order of Business (25 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: No. I am talking about home help for these people. It is in the programme for Government.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (24 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how he will address the anomaly whereby newly qualified teachers, despite having been educated to a high standard for this profession, are paid 22% less than their colleagues who have been employed since before 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11531/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (24 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 253. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the take-over of group water schemes by Irish Water and given that his Department has apparently been discussing this for more than two years but no scheme has been taken over, even though hundreds of schemes have applied to be taken over during this time. [11803/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (24 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 464. To ask the Minister for Health the reason emergency ambulances are disallowed from transporting patients from home to district or community hospitals, even though they are requested to do so by a local general practitioner; the reason in one case the emergency ambulance arrived to take a patient to the local district hospital two miles away; when the ambulance staff realised that the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 465. To ask the Minister for Health why the intermediary care vehicles in County Kerry are not fully staffed; the number of these vehicles which are parked, because of the lack of paramedics to operate them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11533/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax the Exchequer received from the carbon tax in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10206/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges (17 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 349. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the financial relief he will provide to persons on group water schemes now that water charges have been abolished for private residents receiving public water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10205/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (17 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 355. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide funding for the provision of a traffic warden at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10610/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (17 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 356. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide funding for the provision of a traffic warden for primary and secondary schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10611/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (17 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 501. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to change the rules relating to community employment schemes, given that there are barriers to recruitment; to change the year 2000 rule for a programme to a new starting point of 2015; to give referrals into schemes such as community employment and training and education programmes the same weight as full-time jobs in local employment service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (17 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 743. To ask the Minister for Health his views on issues raised concerning the health care provided for children (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9808/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (17 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 805. To ask the Minister for Health why elderly and invalided persons in County Kerry are not getting comparable levels of home help as in other counties such as County Cork, given that home help is rarely attainable in County Kerry at weekends, on bank holidays and on Christmas day; if this is because the Health Service Executive will not pay overtime costs or if there is a shortage of home...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Right now.

Climate Change: Statements (4 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I say to Deputy Eamon Ryan that he will have to change, because I do not agree with all the talk of climate change. There have been patterns of climate change going back over the years before there was ever a combustible engine working in this or any other country. If we go back to the 11th and 12th centuries, this country was roasted out of it, and in the 15th and 16th centuries we were...