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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the delegation for attending. Every man is doing his best, but we need to work harder.

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Self-employed sole traders who have paid thousands of euro and, previously, punts in tax who find their work runs out for a while cannot access any social welfare payments for at least 12 months during which there is no money coming in. It is very unfortunate. It is very unfair when one thinks of all the tax they have paid and the people they have, in many instances, employed. If some...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is a scandal. The man does not have a car and has to travel 19 miles to be seen every week. He must thumb for a lift on a national primary route as he cannot cycle that distance to the office. He is hoping someone can drive him in and out of the town in question. He is in receipt of €100 per week. It appears to me that Turas Nua wants to keep him going to the office so that he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, welcome the delegates from the banks, the credit unions and An Post. All of these facilities are important in the part of the world from which we come - rural Ireland. Since the recession people no longer know their bank managers or bank officials in the way they used to know them. I am sorry to say I agree with Deputy Martin Heydon that power seems to have been taken from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Let me have just a few more seconds. I am sure there are other services that could be offered. For instance, I cannot understand why the Government put a system in place covering all of County Kerry under which a person has to drive from Caherciveen, Valentia Island, Ardgroom, Eyeries and Lauragh to Tralee to renew a driving licence. It is ridiculous. Post offices could have operated the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have to ask the representatives of the banks a question I missed. There was an assurance given by the banks that they would offer low interest loans to a certain number of farmers in the new year. I ask that the scheme be extended to beef farmers and that there be no limit on the number of people who will qualify under it. Farming has reached a critical point. All sectors are under...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Remit (10 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 236. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the care homes caring for elderly priests are not subject to regulation by HIQA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34200/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raise the scandalous legal memo that was sent by the bosses of the HSE to staff on how to deal with patients in our hospitals in which they were advised to use the minimum force on trespassing patients. It was a scandalous remark with which to describe patients who are sick in our hospitals. Is the Taoiseach aware that severe pressure has been put on staff to get patients out of our...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is. It is from the programme for Government, based on health reform and the improvement of services. What is happening here is that staff in general hospitals have been advised to get patients out of the beds to make room for other patients who are on trolleys. That is not the way to do it. What they are doing is insisting that families sign up to the fair deal scheme before they allow...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: To describe patients and sick people as trespassers in our hospitals is absolutely scandalous. The Taoiseach will have to tackle what is happening on the ground because it is an absolute disgrace.

Mental Health Services Funding: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Mary of the Angels in Beaufort caters for 77 people with very serious mental disabilities but there is a decongregation policy that suggests these people should be left to fend for themselves in community settings. The proposal, however, in this instance will break up a community setting. Sadly, there is no funding for this policy because it cost €600,000 a year to cater for one...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (16 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: On section 11, page 119 of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013, where we come from deer and badgers are spreading tuberculosis, TB. It seems to me that they have more rights than the people or the farmers or the people travelling the roads. When a farmer’s herd or several animals go down, it takes three weeks before they are taken off the farm. It is causing undue stress and...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (16 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is on page 119, section 11.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (16 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35417/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (22 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 414. To ask the Minister for Health if there are talks or negotiations taking place for the cystic fibrosis drug kalydeco to make it more cost effective for two to five year olds; the reason kalydeco is not given to two to five year olds at the same agreed price as six years of age and over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35870/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (23 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The programme for Government stated that we would support farming incomes. However, the Revenue Commissioners have recently attacked farmers' incomes by way of a retrospective policy of charging tax on shares given to them by Kerry Co-op. Instead of attacking the farming community, can the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine assist grain and beef farmers who are severely hit and...

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry, but I cannot agree with this proposal to elect a lord mayor of Dublin. It is much too soon.

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Of course I disagree, because we have to prioritise the needs of the people of the country. I cannot see how this is such a priority or why parties are tripping over each other to be out front with this proposal and ensure that a lord mayor is elected in Dublin. Surely there is enough bureaucracy and layers of local government, as well as Deputies, Ministers and everything else. I do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the three groups to the committee today. It is great to note their ideas up close and to examine what they are about. They are linking arms to help rural areas and I thank them sincerely for their efforts. I am amazed at the turn-around FORUM Connemara has given the people in Connemara. We are keen to know more and get to see what the company is doing. Many areas in Kerry,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: My final point concerns rural isolation. It relates to the rule that people in rural areas cannot drive to a pub and have two or three pints. I highlighted this three years ago. A permit for certain people should be allowed on certain roads in isolated areas in order that they are able to have two or two and a half pints and drive. If they break the rules of their permit, they should face...