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Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: Teddy McCarthy, a diesel engine mechanic, garage proprietor, petrol seller and bus operator from Sneem in County Kerry recently recounted to me the following. I will not name the vehicles involved because it would be wrong to do so. No more than naming people who cannot be here to defend themselves, naming the vehicles could be very damaging to the people who produce them. I will say they...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: Perhaps the Red Bull will give them wings. I would like to see something connecting the brain of the Minister with the reality of day-to-day living.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46140/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 34. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will support the request from a charity (details supplied) for co-funding to be made available to its recycle mobility programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46228/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Offices (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is of the view that more privacy should be provided in local Intreo offices (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46135/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to increase the telephone allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46229/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 130. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the kaftrio 35 treatment for children for cystic fibrosis (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46224/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 154. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46369/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (21 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 165. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will support an application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46095/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Schemes (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost-rental schemes that have been approved in each of the months April to August 2022; the number of units involved; the locations of each these schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46413/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Schemes (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has issued price guidelines for the purchase of turn-key homes in each local authority area; and the amount that has been recommended and approved for three-bedroom semi-detached houses in each local authority area. [46414/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Schemes (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes that have been approved and contracted in each local authority area in each of the months April to August 2022; if he will identify their locations and numbers of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46415/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Schemes (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the price guidelines that his Department has issued for the prices of affordable homes in each local authority; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that houses that are fully compliant with current regulations are available at these prices in each location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46416/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding SUSI grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46393/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 308. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to publish the Disability Capacity Review Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46397/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: In the interest of ethics and in the context of the world we are living in today, a person who is involved in different things should declare an interest in the budget. I did not hear anybody else doing it but for fear that a person would be condemned afterwards, I will declare it. It was ironic to see Members in government clapping for the budget today when one thinks how people are...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: When the late Jackie Healy-Rae gave his last interview to Maurice O'Keeffe, he spoke about people who he remembered from long ago. They smoked turf in their pipes. Women in particular did this. They sat down by the fire late at night and smoked turf when they had no tobacco. Smoking means a lot to certain people. Like the Minister and the Government, I would be happier if nobody smoked...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Special Exemption Orders (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am glad to speak on behalf of many business owners in Kerry who have been in contact with me about this issue. They are finding it difficult to run their businesses at night. They were thinking about stopping the night-time entertainment they were putting on because when they added up all of the costs it was just not profitable to be at that business late at night. I can see this from...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Small Benefits Exemption (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I welcome this measure. I fully appreciate and value the massively important role that employers play in Ireland. I hope that the Government would also appreciate them, but I do not think it does sometimes. It is not just the big employers. Of course, we very much appreciate the people who come from overseas and invest here. We welcome the very big employers that we have - the ones we...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance if increases in benefit-in-kind that are due to take effect on 1 January 2023 as a result of changes brought in by the Finance Act 2019 will be postponed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46653/22]