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Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to contribute on this important topic. I, too, am unhappy with the appointment of another regulator and another group of people who will be appointed by the Minister of the day. There is enough officialdom as it is if those people woke up and gave funding to local authorities to build the houses. What difference will it make to have another regulator...

Agrifood and Rural Development: Motion (24 Sep 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Has the clock been stopped?

Agrifood and Rural Development: Motion (24 Sep 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: The clock should be stopped.

Agrifood and Rural Development: Motion (24 Sep 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask that the clock be wound back. I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on the farming situation, particularly in rural areas such as those in County Kerry. As my colleagues and I understand it, rural Ireland depends on suckler farmers and hillside sheep farmers. In recent times, particularly the past two or three years, things have been getting worse for suckler farmers to the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I concur with the Deputies who spoke previously. I know of several people who are waiting for home help. One lady tried to come home but could not manage on her own and went back into hospital, which added to the hospital's waiting list. I ask the Minister to do something about it or to ask the Minister for Health to do something about it. He is doing things he was not asked to do such as...

Special Needs Education Places: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I thank Deputy Thomas Byrne and Fianna Fáil for giving us the opportunity to talk about this motion this evening, as many parents have children affected by autism or intellectual disabilities. For many parents, it is traumatic to find out about these needs for the first time. From that point on, they want to do the best they can for those children. We need to assist them in any...

Status of History in the Framework for Junior Cycle: Statements (1 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about this very important subject. I thank the Minister for restoring history as a core subject on the junior curriculum. When will this happen? When will it be reintroduced? Will geography be restored as a core subject as well? This is a very important matter because, as many have said, if we do not know our history or how we got here, how do we...

Status of History in the Framework for Junior Cycle: Statements (1 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----because history is very important. I ask him again, when will it be back as a core subject?

Status of History in the Framework for Junior Cycle: Statements (1 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I also ask him to ensure geography is a core subject as well.

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to talk about this topic. I have no grudge against anyone in farms being planted with a grove or a hedge. Indeed, I have done it myself. As has been said, farmers have always been doing it. Where I come from, everywhere anyone looks there are too many trees and bushes and they are growing. There are plenty of them in our neck of the woods. Despite talk...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----with the poor cow. These changes in our temperature and our climate have occurred forever over the ages. Tonight we spoke about history, which is very important. The facts have been written down, the truth has been told-----

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and the truth is that climate change has always occurred.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Deputy Martin is now keeping the Taoiseach in power.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to again raise the matter of the hare netting and coursing licence which has been refused or suspended by the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Madigan. The people of County Kerry and other rural dwellers feel wrongly disenfranchised by a Dublin-based Minister who also prevented the cutting of hedgerows in August. They believe that the Minister does not...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister, Deputy Ross, has done enough harm to the people of rural Ireland. I ask the Taoiseach to remove him from office. I ask Fianna Fáil to demand his removal. They are supporting him.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is time for him to go. The people of County Kerry want to get rid of him.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: One hare has been found to have the disease and that was in dubious circumstances.

Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this important Bill. I compliment Deputy O'Callaghan on bringing it forward. We hear every day of knife crime and it is on the increase. We have to ask ourselves why. Many believe that it is because of drugs and that it is used by these villains who supply and are in command of drugs and who are destroying our communities. We hear so much of it...

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get this opportunity to speak about this important topic. As we know, the secretaries are out of sorts because they are not being paid properly. It is not fair because they do a tremendous job. I met the school secretary in Kilgarvan recently when I drove the school bus because my bus driver was off. I saw that her job involves ensuring that children are loaded onto and...

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry that I do not agree with anything that has been said here tonight. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, admits that climate change occurs because of changes in the Earth's solar orbit and not because of human activity. For more than 60 years, NASA has known that changes occurring to the planetary weather patterns are completely natural and normal. The space...