Results 23,241-23,260 of 23,892 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 145. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on a payment to a farmer (details supplied) for a compulsory ACRES course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43448/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 185. To ask the Minister for Health if a payment will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43314/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 186. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be made for a person (details supplied) for an ADHD assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43317/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 190. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43395/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 193. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) who is waiting for braces in Kerry will be called. [43406/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (24 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the bus service linking Kenmare to Castletownbere could be reinstated as it is a much needed and wanted service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43809/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 140. To ask the Minister for Finance if a revision of tax-free allowances with regard to inheritance will be examined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43797/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (24 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 143. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the OPW has not prepared a national strategy for river drainage and maintenance measures to manage flood risk, and allocate sufficient resources to, and begin, its implementation in conjunction with the local authorities, as recommended in the July 2010 report of the Joint Committee on the Environment, Heritage and Local...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (24 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 144. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the OPW has not liaised with the local authorities in the allocation of funding for river drainage and maintenance, as each local authority was recommended in the report to include a separate budget figure for the drainage and maintenance of rivers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43664/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (24 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 350. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43648/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: And a million houses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: A million houses and a bicycle shelter.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: People cannot get a doctor.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: There is no time as good as the present for gauging public opinion. I have been canvassing and knocking on people's doors and meeting them in their places of work. The one thing that is coming back - I am sure the Minister will be very interested in this, and I presume he is hearing it himself - is that people can pick good and bad out of the budget but the one thing that an awful lot of...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: No, Sinn Féin supported it.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will put on the record what was actually said. I would like to think that my memory is fairly sharp. At the time it was said across the floor of this House, obviously not to the Minister but to the person in charge at the time, that he was not going far enough, fast enough. This was with regard to taxation on carbon. That was what Sinn Féin said at the time. That must be...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am seeking the protection of the Ceann Comhairle because I do not want to take up too much time. However, I am making that point. That was said.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: On carbon tax, Sinn Féin said the Government was not going far enough, quick enough, and that is on the record of the Dáil. I would take that back if I were wrong but it is on the record of the Dáil that the leader of the Sinn Féin Party said at that time that the Government was not putting enough tax on people. Sinn Féin then came in here complaining about it...

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: It flip flops, yes Mattie.

Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Nov 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: At present, when people look at the tax take out of their earnings they hurt very badly. When they go to the petrol pumps they hurt very badly because it is all tax, tax and more tax. As far as I can see, the Government is doing everything it can to penalise workers, to stop enterprise and to close down businesses. We asked - we actually begged - on behalf of people involved in business,...