Results 41-60 of 5,162 for speaker:Danny Healy-Rae
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (2 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: All right. Sorry, a Chathaoirligh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am very glad to have an opportunity to speak on this highly emotive issue. I welcome each and every one of the organisations before the committee. Their members are very welcome. As a unit the committee, under our very able Cathaoirleach, promises to do our best for them. I was upset one morning when I heard people saying no one in Ireland was listening to them and that they would go to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I must save my time because-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: All right, my understanding is that either the farmer himself or someone on his behalf can shoot a dog on his property. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: That is very important and this is the only way I believe we can teach these fellas a lesson. Framers should have cameras up as well. I know it costs farmers money to do this but if a farmer is lambing sheep he should have cameras up. As Dan Michael Muldoon once said, shoot at sight. We know that when these dogs taste blood at all they are never satisfied until they go back for more. It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: So farmers need to assure themselves they can shoot dogs on their property and that should be maintained.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I have to stand up for myself. I am listening to Mr. Fitzgerald anyway, and I have always been doing my best about it. He can name the rest of them, but he cannot name me anyway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: We know dog wardens are employed by local authorities. We need to have one authority, either the Department of agriculture or the local authorities, to be responsible for the farmers and ensure they are doing their job. It cannot be the case that the Department of agriculture is over it but the dog wardens are not responsible to the Department. That is an anomaly that must be straightened...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (2 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: 232. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case for an addition to the drugs payment scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36269/25]
- GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this motion this evening. To start, we all have to honour, respect and remember those leaders, men and women who fought for our country in 1916 and around that time, including during the Civil War, and all those who died along the way so we could be here having our own democratic Parliament. Everyone is entitled to talk and say what they believe...
- Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: We all know that when a child presents with special needs and needs special assistance, it places a massive burden on his or her parents. The parents would prefer to see something wrong with themselves rather than their child. The Minister of State and I know that we do not need reports. We need funding. We need more specialist teachers and places and we need to speed up the assessment of...
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: Was I not left talk the last day about the foxes, when-----
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----they brought in something else ridiculous.
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: They are still attacking farmers.
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I reject totally what the Deputy has said.
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: We have had Roughty Valley Co-Op-----
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----with 6,000 pigs in Kilgarvan for the last 53 years.
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: It is very unfair to make pig farmers out to be bad people, when they have been providing-----
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----employment for so many people over many years and providing food for our people.
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am not calling a vote today-----