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Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 576. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the hiring of a personal assistant for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45975/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 581. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if further supports for future capital investments on farms will be made available to the horse industry in Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45811/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 582. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that he will not impose any impositions or proposals to ban ploughing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45413/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 583. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a tax exemption will be given to farmers who opt to cut their suckler cow numbers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45424/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Passports (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 594. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to introduce an e-passport for the identification of equines (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45816/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 595. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that financial support will be given to Horse Sport Ireland for the integrity programme and the National Equine Anti-Doping Programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45820/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 596. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider increasing the amount of funding available for breeding and production supports for Horse Sport Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45847/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding will be increased from the expected €850,000 in 2022 to €1.5 million in 2023 to grow the share of Irish-bred horses sold to overseas markets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45850/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 598. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to consider introducing a voucher scheme (Details Supplied) for Horse Sport Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45851/22]

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I want to tell the Minister about my experience at the National Ploughing Championships yesterday. He and his colleagues are considering banning ploughing in Ireland, which is another ridiculous suggestion.

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister of State can say "What?" but this is the same as a lot of the other madcap ideas the Government has had. I want to tell the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, that many people mentioned his name to me yesterday and asked me what in the name of God is that man trying to do to them. These were fine, respectable people from all parts of Ireland. I am telling the Minister the truth when...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I can tell the Minister and Minister of State that Fianna Fáil has lost rural Ireland, Fine Gael has lost rural Ireland and the Green Party never had it to lose it. I want to tell the Minister and his colleagues, some of whom are shouting me down, a story about what happened at my clinic the other night. I was invited into the home of a lady called Nora, who is nearer 90 years of...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister is a failure. The people in government with him are failures. He is a disgrace. The Minister should go to the ploughing match, walk up and down-----

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----and see what the people will say to him and hear what they think of him. I pray on my bended knees-----

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----that he, like the Green Party in the North, will get his answer. I pray that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, which have lost rural Ireland forever and will never again get it back, will get their answer-----

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----the next time they go before the people. They forgot they were servants of the people.

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am sorry. All they did was to go on a rampage doing whatever they wanted to do. They will get their answer and that answer they will get.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I was shocked to hear the Minister proposing to ban gas and oil boilers by 2025. This is a huge mistake and I strongly urge the Government to review the facts and listen to the experts in this sector to solve the climate issue in the domestic heating sector. This is a knee-jerk reaction by the Minister that is damaging rural Ireland already. Firebird Heating Solutions, which is next door...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will tell the Minister the plan. There are four points. HVO is fossil fuel free heating because it is made from a waste. It should have a zero rate of carbon tax, zero duty and a VAT rate of 5% applied to it, if the Government is serious about climate issues in rural Ireland. It is not a fossil fuel, so why are we taxing it as such for heating? That is a good point. The Government...

Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thanked the Minister in a public forum the other day but I thank him again. On a personal basis I followed his political career for decades and always admired him. I always knew he was a person of great capability and I am delighted to see him where I like to see him. Enough about that. At the outset I will tell a story of how FDI can work at its most practical level. In the town of...