Results 9,521-9,540 of 23,577 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Register of Electors (14 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reform the Register of Electors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26042/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (14 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: 262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26118/18]
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: I have not.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: Unless the Ceann Comhairle is going to cut me off I would like the opportunity-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: In another minute I will.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: I want to hope that the Minister will listen to the voices of reason, to people who calmly try to point out that there is more to road safety and saving lives than what he is concentrating on. Why not consider all the other issues that have been raised during these debates, which have gone on but rightly so? What the Minister is hoping to do will change things forever in rural Ireland which...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: When I started off in a county council every councillor was entitled to use councillor's allocation to cut hedges. That was stopped. One of the main reasons people have accidents on narrow country roads is that they are keeping out from the ditches because hedges are not being cut.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am coming back to what the Minister talked about. He drew it on himself because he spoke about road safety.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: I have to mind the Minister because he is bringing forward the legislation.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am focusing on it. Will the Minister, as the Minister with responsibility for safety on our roads, use his power to ensure that the local authorities will go back cutting hedges and to the basic work they used to do long ago when we had section men who went out every day? They were proud of keeping their sections of road clear of water and keeping the hedges cut. This work has been...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: They do.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: When the Minister spoke earlier he hung his hat on road safety. I am talking about road safety. I am talking about saving lives. I am talking about things in a sensible way and I am asking the Minister to look at other aspects of road safety that he is not looking at. Since becoming Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, has concentrated on a very narrow focus of road...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: I appreciate the opportunity to speak to this. I am sorry to say that I was unhappy with what the Minister said in the first place and I am still unhappy with his response to Deputy Fitzmaurice. We need to go back to the nub of the argument the Minister is making with regard to this proposal. The Minister is making an assumption that an accident involving an unaccompanied driver would not...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: A Cheann Comhairle, is there any fear he might be using the filibustering tactic you spoke about? If he is, you should chastise him when he comes back.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: Yes.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: I move amendment No. 14:In page 3, lines 25 to 27, to delete all words from and including "be" in line 25 down to and including "subsection (15)" in line 27 and substitute "incur 4 penalty points". Could I just say on this if I will be allowed-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: Yes but it is a very fair point. It is just-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: I consider this is something the Minister should seriously consider-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: -----as a reasonable response to what he is proposing.