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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: What I have to say is very straightforward. What the Minister did to people in rural Ireland is totally unjustified. One has to be there to understand it. Hedges in the city and along the motorways are being cut every day of the week, even when there is no need to cut them. One could land in Killarney or Mitchelstown and think one has travelled the country, but that is not the truth when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have my coat off here every day while it is pouring rain all of the time at home. It rains 40 times more in County Kerry than here. The Minister might not understand it, but there is a difference in weather conditions in County Kerry. We need to burn in the month of March, as well cutting hedges in August.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will allow Deputy Michael Collins to finish.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: In July, Johnny Healy-Rae, Maura Healy-Rae and I secured a commitment that the council would start cutting the dangerous places at the start of August. The very minute the Minister issued her orders, the process stopped completely. No council executive will put his or her job on the line or break the law for me or any other politician. That is what is happening, as it has done over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Before we leave this section, I want to make one statement. Why did we go to the trouble of looking for a Bill to cut the hedges in August if the local authorities could already have done it? This is the nonsense we are listening to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why did we look for it if it was already there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review: Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: With regard to the bean an tís, who bring children into their homes for two or three weeks to allow them to further their Irish language education, they do a wonderful job. They give their time and, in addition to feeding and keeping the youngsters, they take care of them and are responsible for them. They have done a wonderful job over the years. It has been brought to my attention,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I highlight the lack of vital infrastructure projects in County Kerry. We have been waiting for many years for these projects, despite promises year after year. The village of Kilcummin has been waiting at least 15 years. A project was promised several times but the road to the village has been delayed for at least ten years because we have been told repeatedly that the sewerage scheme...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have been talking about this inside here-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and I am entitled, as a representative of the people of Kerry, to raise this matter.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not apologise to anyone for raising this matter today. Irish Water will state that it is only obliged to bring its existing treatment plants up to an acceptable standard. The company will tell me, others and the local authority that it has no obligation to build new treatment plants. That is where we are. I ask the Tánaiste to talk to Irish Water about that. He is the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: A snail going to Jerusalem would travel faster than the speed at which we are making progress with this.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Licensed hauliers feel they are very exposed to a no-deal Brexit. The budget for 2020 should not make the situation worse for the sector. It asks that we do not increase carbon tax or at least that we provide for its offset for licensed hauliers. The sector also asks for measures to be introduced to reduce fuel costs for licensed hauliers by doubling the rebate level allowed under the...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am pleased to get the opportunity to speak on the budget. I got a clear message from 1,000 people on the budget and the economy of Kerry at Limerick racecourse last Sunday evening. It was to ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Madigan, to sign the hare coursing licence on which so many people in the south of the country, especially Kerry, Limerick and parts of...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I need just a second on the issue of hotels. The increase by 4.5% in the VAT rate last year has led to a downturn of at least 20%. The fall in the value of sterling has also adversely affected visitors from the United Kingdom.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will just state that in relation to insurance, there has been no word about the cost of insurance.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: There has also been no recognition of the difficulties faced by hauliers. Moving on to the subject of housing-----

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister himself admitted the problem by stating that there are only half the number of workers-----

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ----- in the construction trade as there were in 2008.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not support the increase in the price of cigarettes and tobacco even though I do not smoke myself. It is very hard to place an extra cost on people who have to smoke. There are many elderly people who were smoking before any education was available on the effects of cigarettes and it is impossible for them to give up now. This increase will not encourage them to stop and it is not the...