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Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raised this matter by way of question to the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, about a week ago and I am still very concerned about it. Today, I have six new people who are looking to get their tests brought forward. Two of them will not get their tests for seven months. This is what they have been told. I will give an example. One of them is a young fella from Cahersiveen who can do...

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is an emergency. I am asking the Government to do something, please. This happened last year-----

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and the summer holidays will take a lot of the testers away and the test wait time will get longer.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Schemes (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for his response. I ask him to give me a clear understanding as to whether farmers who have lands in Lyracrumpane, Glencar, Cahirsiveen, Kilcummin, Gneevgullia, Scartaglin and all those places can cut turf where they have parcels of peat? That is a straight question and I want a straight answer to it. Farmers are very concerned about the time it will take to get...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Schemes (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Do farmers have to leave out the patch where they are cutting turf?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Schemes (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to discuss the implication of the new good agricultural and environmental condition of land rules, GAEC 2. Farmers in many parts of County Kerry will be affected. Farmers have been advised that they must recognise these new rules and regulations as part of applying for their basic income support scheme, BISS, payments and other CAP payments on 15 May, which is tomorrow. That is the...

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak about the provision of housing and affordable houses. I do not know how there is so much talk about affordable houses because no house is affordable now with the cost of materials, the cost of labour and the shortage of labour. I must speak about the number of vacant houses around the county of Kerry in towns and villages and between villages. Take...

Power of Higher Education, Research and Skills as Economic Enablers in a Changing World: Statements (13 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this. Of course we all appreciate the power that a university education devolves to students. It opens many doors for them. We must not forget, however, that we also need apprentices in all the trades. Consider plasterers, for example. We talk of housing every day here but they will not be built without tradesmen. We need carpenters, we need...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get this opportunity. Whenever we get funding in Kerry for roads, we are very grateful and appreciative. We have got great value for money over the years, but there are works going on between the nugget and the gap cross going out of Killarney on the way around the Ring of Kerry, where many tourists and buses go daily and at night time. In fact, there is fierce traffic on this...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is, yes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: This was the widest part of the road around the Ring of Kerry. We are looking to widen the rest of it and what did they do? They narrowed the good bit of road that we had.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Tractors, agricultural vehicles and hauliers cannot pass each other any more.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (8 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 220. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23051/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 444. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent scan will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23066/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 445. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent test will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23067/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Driver Test (7 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for his reply, but most of that information was contained in an answer to a parliamentary question I tabled a number of weeks ago and we are still the same way. It was the same last year when I raised the issue at an Oireachtas committee. The truth is, Dublin is being looked after but places like Kerry are not. That is the God's gospel truth. All of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Driver Test (7 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to ask about the problem we have in Kerry with the delay in youngsters getting their driving tests. This is an important issue. Boys and girls have to wait for up to six months to get their driving test, which is far too long for a young learner driver to have to wait, particularly in rural areas of Kerry where there is no public transport option and driving...

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is a very important motion. I thank Deputy Kerrane for tabling it. We all remember the election campaign. When we were calling to people's doors, childcare was a constant issue. In many cases, both parents have to go out to work. They need to be out of home to keep a home, and that is the honest truth. They are having difficulties sourcing places and likewise, professional...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (1 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the requirement for photo ID when applying for a public service card, as many people do not have a passport or driver's licence; if an alternative will be offered; if identity confirmation by a garda or solicitor will be made acceptable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20865/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (1 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason it is necessary for persons to present themselves at a welfare office to have a photo taken for a public service card; if there are plans to have this available to do online [SUBSTITUTE]; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20866/25]