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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farm Safety: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right. The last thing is children. It is easy enough to mind one child but I would advise all farmers and operators to be very choosy about bringing a second child with them. Have the witnesses recognised these issues and would they highlight them further? Those three things will stop lives being taken.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farmer Mental Health and Well-being: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will speak now. How long have I got? Two minutes, that is grand. I am sorry I was not here for the start of the presentation. I welcome the witnesses and thank them for coming in. It is important to have this interaction on behalf of farmers. I resent that an assertion was made that farmers were drinking too much at home and that was a big problem. I do not accept that they drink...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (9 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was not here at the start of the meeting so I am not fully versed. I am sorry. I am interested but was held up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (9 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (9 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am getting worried. Ms McPhillips mentioned that money would come out of some other scheme to be put into the small farmers' scheme. I remember that kind of carry-on at the council when we would ask to put in a road. The gun was put to your head to decide what road to take out. I am not in favour of this at all. I would not want to take money out of some other fellow's pocket so we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (9 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I say we should forget about it.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, am glad to have the opportunity to discuss the matter. I thank Sinn Féin for giving us the chance to speak on behalf of the students. I welcome the students who are in the Gallery and wish them well for the coming year. There are a number of things at play here. Many families do not qualify for SUSI. As a result, parents and students have to work very hard to ensure they...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this important matter to allow extension of time for planning developments that are held up for one reason or another. Indeed, we had this facility a few years ago, where applicants could get a second five years if they looked for it. The then Minister, in his wisdom, decided to stop that because he felt that developers were hoarding land,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Invasive Species Policy (8 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 693. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action his Department will take with the large spread of ragwort, especially on the roadsides of Kerry, as this causes the spread from farm to farm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37101/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (3 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 343. To ask the Minister for Health if she is considering and investigating the use of Al-powered sensors to keep older adults safer and healthier in their own homes (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36697/25]

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I thank the Labour Party for giving us the opportunity to talk about this important topic. It is an emotive subject when families have to make the decision to put someone into a nursing home. I vividly remember when my father was not great and a decision had to be made. I am glad we were able to keep him in his own home with Kathleen Fitzgerald. I thank all the people, including...

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----to keep people-----

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----looked after. All right. I am sorry.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (2 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. He referred to roads that were under construction or near it. This is not under construction. Planning has not yet been granted. It is at the planning stage at present. Anyone who wants to make a submission needs to make it before Friday evening. The people of Kerry need to know what is happening because this will create chaos. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (2 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to raise this matter in the Chamber. First, I have to explain the present setup. The national primary road coming into Killarney from the Cork side is a very busy road as it is. It goes through what we know locally as Daly's roundabout and then carries on to the old bypass, which has been built for over 50 years, to Tralee, Killorglin, all of mid-Kerry and...

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...