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

Danny Healy-Rae: May I ask a couple of questions?

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry I had to leave but before I left, there was a discussion about forestry. Are the representatives aware of the restrictions on planting marginal ground in places like Kerry? Can anything be done about that, given 80% green ground must be planted vis-à-vis 20% of marginal ground? It is the other way round in south Kerry. If someone is lucky, he has 20% green ground and 80%...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The cost of insurance is still a serious problem for practically everyone. The old and young cannot pay the premiums that are now being demanded. An elderly person of 72 or 73 who never had an accident must now pay €710. This has risen from €350, despite the fact that the man is driving the same car. It has passed its test, everything is perfect and the man has made no claim....

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: One solicitor boasted on Facebook that he got €80,000 for a girl making a claim. He said that if others have similar cases, they should come to him so he can do the same for them. There are serial claimants and they need to be dealt with. They need to be put on a list and action needs to be taken in regard to them. The fraud squad or some other squad needs to be sent after them...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have to raise again the serious problem of elderly people in County Kerry waiting for cataract operations. I have raised this many times previously and, indeed, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae has raised it as well. It is just not good enough. We have five Ministers for health and we have a raft of HSE managers, yet many elderly people will not be able to see this Christmas-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Just one second. They have to wait for a year and a half to two years for an operation that takes little over an hour. It is very unfair to leave people blind in the latter days of their lives for so long. We have five Ministers for health. If they are not able to deal with the problem - I have it raised many times before - they will have to pull out because they cannot give people a...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is very bad for people.

Flood Insurance Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome all of the people present from all around the country, especially my neighbours from west Cork. We have had flooding in County Kerry. I will support the Bill. As well as the people who have been helped by the OPW, there are others who have been flooded and sorted themselves out. They should be looked after too in the Bill. Culverts in housing estates were blocked and the...

Flood Insurance Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: There are rivers in County Kerry that have not been cleaned in the past 30 or 40 years because of the problem of cross-compliance whereby a landowner or a farmer cannot touch a river because Inland Fisheries Ireland will threaten to jail him or her if he or she does so. Houses and roads did not sink in Glenflesk, but water levels in rivers have risen. That problem needs to be dealt with....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the minor works grant for the year 2016-2017 in view of the fact that much of the year has already passed; and if it will be available for schools in 2016. [36856/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pensions Legislation (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Montessori teachers do not receive any pension; and the reason they do not get paid during their holidays. [36907/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: People are waiting for up to two years for cataract procedures at Cork University Hospital. Can the Minister for Health operate the Sligo model in Cork University Hospital because the people of Kerry are disenfranchised and have to wait much too long? They will be blind for Christmas and for the next two years if these procedures are not rolled out.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Nitrates Usage (6 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will extend the transitional agreements to allow pig and poultry farmers to spread their slurry and litter under the same terms as they are allowed to do up until the end of 2016 as the review of the nitrates regulations will not take place until 2017 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a lot of concern about Bus Éireann. Will the Government ensure there will be a public bus service to serve rural communities, including in County Kerry, in order that especially those who can avail of free travel in places such as Killorglin, Killarney, Castleisland and Kenmare will have access to public transport? They have a right to use public transport just as much as...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too am glad to speak on the housing and rental crises again. Nothing has been discussed more than this topic since I was elected to this House. It was mentioned in the programmes for Government day after day and even before I came up here it was discussed in Kerry County Council. So much has been said, but words are not enough because words will not build houses. These Bills will not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Matters Relating to Kerry Co-Operative: Revenue Commissioners. (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is a very serious matter in regard to which all of my colleagues have made important points. What many of us cannot understand is why it is that the Revenue Commissioners are only now getting into action. Mr. Phelan gave away a bit when he said the Revenue Commissioners only recently understood how this works. The first thing that needs to be clarified is that the farmers from Kerry or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Matters Relating to Kerry Co-Operative: Revenue Commissioners. (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Mr. Phelan said he only recently understood how this works. That signifies to me that it is new to the Revenue Commissioners and it is certainly new to the farmers and the professional people, such as accountants and tax advisers. They were not aware there was a liability even though they are professional people and had to go through the rigours to become accountants. They have letters...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Matters Relating to Kerry Co-Operative: Revenue Commissioners. (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: We never said that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Taxation Matters Relating to Kerry Co-Operative: Revenue Commissioners. (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: In his own words, Mr. Phelan only recently understood how this works. I am asking that following the test case, if Revenue is found to be right, it only starts charging people tax from that point forward because it is wrong to be going backwards when nobody knew they were doing anything wrong, including their accountants and officials helping them submit their accounts.