Results 20,361-20,380 of 23,892 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pensions (16 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: 192. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive their pension increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57007/22]
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: I will be brief because I know the committee is under pressure for time. I have been listening very closely to the Minister and the other members. I would like to think that all of us have one thing in common when discussing these matters, and that is the fact that we want more properties to be available and we want them to be available at an affordable rate that will allow people to have...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Cost of Living Issues (17 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: 182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional money will be given for housing grants for disability modifications due to the high costs of materials; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57045/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (17 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: 301. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will implement the 37.5 working week and the payment of overtime (details supplied) for a mental health nurse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57168/22]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am in Agriculture House so I have to take off running now. I am fast but not that fast.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am not Sebastian Coe.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: You can but I will miss the vote. I am going to have to go. Can we come back to this again?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: I just have to say something about this when one hears people talking about imagining new ways of taxing and further taxing. Does anybody believe that people will say that they are being taxed out of existence? I will give an example of the residential zoned land tax, how wrong it is and how it will completely backfire and will blow up in the faces of the people who thought it was going to...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for her indulgence. In the name of God and holy sense, will the Taoiseach look at what the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is proposing to do in January? He says that he will not sign the derogation with regard to farmyard burning and that farmers will not be able to burn gorse and wood material, clippings and...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: -----on a yearly basis. This has been the case for many years. It is going to detrimentally affect family farms. The Minister's answer is that the farmers should mulch it. A mulcher needs diesel or petrol. I ask the Taoiseach to please look at this. How Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael backbenchers could support this is beyond me.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: It is scrub and brush that needs to be burned.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: There was a derogation-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: Do not be trying to make fun of me.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: This is a derogation. The Taoiseach should know that there is a derogation signed every January.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: It is scrub. If you use a machine to clean out scrub there will be a heap of briars, bushes and branches that need to be burned.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: That is how you have to dispose of it - by burning it
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is well aware of it. Maybe the Taoiseach is not; I am sorry if that is the case.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: It is no wonder you have lost rural Ireland.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: You lost rural Ireland.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)
Michael Healy-Rae: You lost it.