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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----that are going on. There has been no proper debate on this. All I am asking is that the people of Ireland be treated fairly. What I see in Kerry is replicated around the country in other counties. Every fella must look after his own. Whether Government or Opposition Deputies or Senators, we must all join together to ensure that fairness is meted out. We are all on the same page...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----because we are going to hurt farmers. It will be the death-knell of rural Ireland and the rural places that I represent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am grateful to the Chairman but we need to be honest with the people we are representing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very concerned about this fertiliser register. Many farmers in my area are seriously concerned because they need fertiliser to maintain the level of stocking they have today. Without it, there will be a reduction in their herds. It again looks like we are going backwards. We will be in the same situation we were in during the early 1970s, when everyone knew how many cows the grass in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will ask for clarification if I may regarding what Mr. McCormack said about farmers needing to be told in May or June how much fertiliser they have left that they can buy. They need to be told by their distributor, whether it is Kerry Co-Operative Creameries or another co-operative, before they run out or they will have nothing to spread in July or August in terms of fertiliser, silage or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will that be in place for next year? Who is looking at my place to see how much stuff I can get? This is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I know, Chairman. These are important questions, however. I do not know how much fertiliser I can get. Mikey Joe Murphy, Danny Healy and all these people are in no man's land-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: They do not know how much they are going to be allowed or who is going to vet them to decide how much they can get.

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this matter to the floor of the Dáil because it is very important. The Government has to accept that since it closed down Lanesborough and Shannonbridge power stations in the middle of the country, electricity has increased every whole day. As the cost of generating electricity had gone up so much, we were all resigned to the fact that we would have...

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: He will not even give us the right carbon-----

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Of course, the Chair is supporting the Minister to the hilt. You are one of them.

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Your balance is behind the Greens because the Government took them on board.

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I work for those from every nationality, back over the years since I began as a councillor.

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The time has come that we must look at what we are doing because we have enough at the present time.

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this very important topic. I welcome anything that would help tourism in the country and, indeed, in Kerry. All of us are privileged to be elected to this Chamber to represent the people who elected us from whatever part of the country. However, I feel that being a Deputy from Kerry, I have an advantage because I am representing the best county...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The wind does not blow all the time.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 567. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding refugees being moved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51666/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that persons on benefit payments are still not eligible for the fuel allowance. [51021/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the carer's allowance payment would be exempt from a means test if the medical needs of the patient and the level of care being provided are assessed that it should be sufficient. [51022/22]

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get an opportunity to talk on this topic as many employers across the county of Kerry have been asking me to help them to get people to work for them. Work permits come up all the time. Last week, a plaster was on to me looking to get a plasterer in from another country. He has been held up all year. He went through all the hoops. He had to advertise in the local paper and...