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Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak this evening. I want to clarify something in relation to the carbon tax. A question was raised here yesterday about the carbon tax by Deputy Doherty. It was stated that there was to be a vote held last night. There was no vote. I never voted for the carbon tax. Subsequent to that, another Sinn Féin Member put up a question on his phone to...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Never in my life.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: There was no vote on the carbon tax last night.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Deputies might be having a bit of fun. It is grand to have fun, but it is not fun for me. I never voted for the carbon tax.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am not under any whip from the Deputies about what way I vote. I will vote for the people of Kerry who elected me here. I am very sorry, a Chathaoirligh Gníomhach,

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I did not interrupt other Deputies at any time. I will not interrupt them when they are talking, but I am telling the truth.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will do that in spite of anyone interrupting me. The facts are that I never voted for it. That tax will be coming in tomorrow morning without any vote here tonight.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is no vote about it tonight. It will go ahead in the morning because Sinn Féin voted for it before. That is God's gospel truth.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: They do not understand their place. I never interrupted them. In any event, I am disappointed with the way some of the carbon tax is spent. In the name of active travel, the road into Killarney is being narrowed. The footpaths are now wider than the road and the carriageway. Wide vehicles are having serious trouble passing each other at Fossa, where the great Cliffords who shook Croke...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: By helping the clubs, we will be helping the players.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this budget, which has been awaited by many people around the country to see if they will benefit from it. All of us here might do it differently but we have to go by the amount of money the Government has to spend, and the choices it makes about how to spend it is what we have to go through. There are many things that are welcome and a good few...

Investment in Sport and Sporting Infrastructure: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: We all know how important participation in sport is for young and old, and how it brings communities together. Adequate funding should be in place for sports clubs and organisations in all our towns and villages and clubs constantly have to fundraise, which puts parents and fundraisers under financial pressure to support them. The funding provided through the sports capital funds has had...

Situation in Gaza: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Like everyone else in here and like most of the world, we are all outraged by what has been happening in Gaza to the Palestinian people for almost the past two years. It is terrible. It is horrible. No words I can use could capture the wrong that has been done. I look at the Deputy across from me, from Wexford, Deputy Brennan, who spoke yesterday evening in such an eloquent and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to ask a specific question regarding Daly’s roundabout in Killarney, on the N22, which the Minister knows well. There is a proposal by TII and Kerry County Council to remove the roundabout and replace it with a traffic light. Five sets of traffic lights are supposed to be put up instead of the roundabout. I ask that temporary lights be provided first to see how this will...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister. The people I am talking about know about the help to buy scheme. Many of them do not qualify. The Minister referred to zoned land. We have zoned land in Kenmare. Johnny Healy-Rae raised this last week. There are two applications before Kerry County Council that have gone out for further information. Developers are supposed to provide their own water. They have...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask him to increase the cap that prevents people from getting on the housing list from €37,000 to €60,000. People are going away and not enough is being done.

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Minister to ask the local authority to build rural cottages on land owned by family members because it is only building one house a year at the minute. That is not enough. We would want to have-----

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have this opportunity to raise with the Minister the matter of young fellas, boys and girls, leaving our shores to go to Australia simply because they cannot buy or build a house in this country no matter how good a job they have. I attended an event in Barraduff in east Kerry a couple of weeks ago for ten local youngsters who are departing our shores. Some of them have already...

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have an opportunity to debate this issue. I thank the Social Democrats for putting the motion before the House. It certainly is very timely with the budget happening next week. I have been and am appealing to the Government to get rid of the means test for people who are caring for loved ones. We are talking about human beings. When people become carers, they must, in many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get this opportunity and I welcome each and every one of the witnesses. It has been a really informative process and event for me because I have learned a lot of things. My eyes are open to things that the witnesses are after highlighting that are going on. They will appreciate that where I come from, specifically south Kerry, hardly any grain is grown, but we have a lot of...