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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: In any case I am saying nothing about that now but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: When farmers' payments are held up why not allow so much of the payments to be paid? They hold up some farmers' payments for a whole year or maybe more, and those farmers cannot put bread on the table when this is going on. They are entitled to receive some of the payment but not to it all. However, the whole lot is held up and this needs to be addressed. Under the fair deal scheme the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: When it is reduced the price at the pumps does not go down for months. We need to work on that and I am asking the witnesses to do their best to address these issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have been told it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: A national spatial strategy was put in place some time in 2012 and signed by the then Minister, Deputy Leo Varadkar. Aspects of this strategy are preventing family members of farmers from accessing national secondary roads in County Kerry. My county has more miles of national secondary road than any other county. Family members are being prevented from securing planning permission. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The roadside hedges should be cut all year round and priority must be given to the people travelling the roads over the birds. No bird is so stupid as to make a nest outside the ditch anywhere along the side of the road. I totally agree about the greenway routes. I am very disappointed with the route taken by our local authority in the way it has gone about it - there should have been...

UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: My views on climate change are already well known. There were changes in the climate way back in times when there was no industrialisation and when there were far fewer animals on farms in our country. There was no intensification of farming in the centuries gone by, yet we had intense heat and long periods of very cold, wet weather, which culminated in the loss of many lives in the famine...

UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister and I are the same in that we have nothing on our heads to spray. Anyway, we are managing. They never told us that nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean 50 years ago actually caused the serious damage to the ozone layer. I am thankful it is now mending and curing. It has nothing to do with policies in any country in recent times. I am very worried about this agreement...

UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I know. The last thing I will say to the Minister is that wave energy is not being explored at all. We have a massive distance of coastline all around us. Wave energy should be supported to ensure that it gets off the ground.

UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right. Thank you very much.

Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am grateful to get this opportunity to ask the Minister for Health about Lantern Lodge in Killarney. Twenty-seven long-enduring patients with mental health disabilities are being asked to move to a new facility at Leawood House on Countess Road in Killarney.

Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, it does. The programme for Government contains a commitment to assist people with mental health disabilities. I will put the scenario to the Taoiseach because the Minister has gone. People with long-enduring disabilities were getting a meal at the Lantern Lodge facility. They are being moved across town now. They have been told they will not get a meal and they will not have...

Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why is the Government allowing this to happen to the most vulnerable section of our community? On top of the recent proposal to close the St. Mary of the Angels facility in the town of Killarney, it is proposed to hurt 27 more people. Why is this being allowed?

Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is the truth.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the people from the OPW and the CFRAMS engineers to today's meeting. It is good to get an opportunity to raise the flooding issues that have been inflicted on the people of County Kerry in recent years. Who is responsible for what? Who is accountable for sorting these problems out? I firmly believe the reasons our rivers are flooding can be linked to the system of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: During periods of very dry weather there are many - perhaps too many - gorse fires across County Kerry which often have to be tackled by up to five fire brigades, but they are powerless because they cannot move off the road. Fire service personnel are very good, but they can only do so much. Why does the service not use excavators to open a fire belt to stop a fire from spreading? We have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am pleased to be given an opportunity to meet the witnesses. I thank them for attending. It is significant that all the Deputies present are from rural areas. Perhaps members from towns and cities do not have as much interest in this issue or they may not experience as many problems as members from rural areas. As Deputies Michael Collins and Ó Cuív stated, it is vital that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the witnesses for attending. They made 100% effort to answer each of our questions. We have asked many other people many other questions and they were not able to answer but that was not the way with these witnesses. I will forever thank them for being so upfront and for doing their level best to answer our questions. We know they are under pressure and we are really grateful for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am pleased to get this opportunity to ask a few questions and to put my point of view across. I welcome the witnesses. I am pleased they are present. I do not know any of the witnesses and I have nothing personal against any of them. I have not said it before now but I think our health service is a shambles. We are going backwards not forwards with every aspect of it that I deal with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Could I say something? I would be grateful if I could just get this in. This 95 year old man was being refused a quarter of an hour's support to put him into bed but this same man could be paid for in a nursing home by the fair deal scheme. Why would some of the fair deal scheme not be diverted to keeping him at home where we wants to stay? That is what I would ask Mr. Hayes.