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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (29 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a driving test (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28787/25]

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: At the football.

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I remind him and the Ministers that small piers locally, including in Kilmakilloge, Coornagillagh and Blackwater, have been crying out for maintenance funding for safety projects and other things for the past several years. Returning to Kenmare, the local authority must work in conjunction with the Department of the marine and the OPW. The local...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: ----- that provide excellent food and all that goes with it. People are treated very well in those places.

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Indeed, they catered for more the than 4,000 cyclists who used the Beara cycleway last Saturday.

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: They were well able to do so.

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Kenmare needs a bit more for the off-times.

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Ceann Comhairle very much. I am sorry for going over time.

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes. Last weekend.

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I promise here myself-----

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----that if the Taoiseach comes down to open it, I will-----

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----the plaque on the wall-----

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----on the pier myself.

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Today, I respectfully call for a new vision for Kenmare Harbour. What we needs is a practical, modest development, including a new pier, a safe slipway, a few berths for boats, proper facilities for the rowing club, a carpark for campervans and toilet and showering facilities to cater for tourists. This would create local jobs, support tourism by keeping people coming to the town all year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister and his officials for coming before the committee. I wish our new Cathaoirleach well and indeed all the members of the committee. It would be nice if we could all work together and help each other. It is in the best interests of farmers out there that we do so. I have a lot of issues to raise. There is no clock so I do not know how to judge the time. ACRES-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I cannot see that, but anyway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Regarding the ACRES scheme, what I am being told by all the people I am trying to get payments for is that the system is broken down. We have been involved in plant hire and school bus hire and everything. If something breaks down, it has to be fixed, or else it has to be got rid of. This system has been operating for two years now and it should have been streamlined and fixed long before...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, or the Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right, that is grand. I will keep going. Pillar 1 and pillar 2 of the CAP have to be retained in order to keep farmers going. We have an awful problem. The Minister said there are 133,000 farmers in the country. How many will there be next year or the year after? Many young, would-be farmers cannot see themselves continuing the slavery and racket that their parents went through to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and through the hills and glens of Kerry cannot live on fresh air. They need to get properly recompensed for the Trojan work they do, in spite of all the adversity. I ask the Minister to answer on the important points I have raised. We need more time to discuss them, but I thank the Minister for coming in today. I would appreciate whatever answers he can give me.