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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government has the people totally and absolutely blaggarded. It has led them up and down the garden path. Who does the Taoiseach think he is codding?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: So you are blaming indoor hospitality for the whole thing. Is that what the Government is doing?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: What agenda has Tony Holohan? What has he got against-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many businesses will never again reopen. That is what the Government is ensuring.

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak on behalf of the people of Kerry. The Government and the Minister are behind the curve again with this Bill to legalise outdoors drinking. I welcome that but the Government was wrong and not at the races when it advised people to drink outside when there was no law to ensure it was legal. I submitted a parliamentary question last October asking...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this important topic. Many Deputies have done a great deal of talking and it is time for action. I appreciate that the Minister is doing his best in the position he now holds and I have confidence that he will continue trying to do that. We disagree about certain matters. I am worried that, down the line, this legislation will erode the powers...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: The costs are going up all the time. That is what is happening. We must realise this and do something to help those people.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am worried about the CPO aspect of the legislation. It is proposed that "other land" could be acquired by CPO. There is a big problem in Dublin and there are also problems in Kerry but they are different problems that can be sorted out differently. The Minister is talking about populations over 30,000 whereas I am talking about villages with populations of 1,000 or 2,500. They also need...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am asking the Minister to fund the local authorities so they can purchase sites around local villages and towns. Our land is exhausted at the moment. We have very little land left in most of the rural towns and villages, including Currow, Scartaglen, Rathmore, Gneeveguilla and all of those places. There is no land. I am asking the Minister to fund the local authorities so they can...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (6 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of fishing restrictions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36117/21]

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I want to sympathise with the families of two young boys who were killed in our county last night. My thoughts go out to the parents, sisters, brothers and families that have been left behind. Their lives will never again be the same. May God give them the strength to carry on and continue with their lives in the best way that they can. It reminds us of what true loss is. While we...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: Rural Ireland is being left behind and I do not want any more post offices closed. I applaud the Regional Group for bring forward this motion as we did previously. We are letting what we have go. It is way easier to keep something than to let it go and try to bring it back again. This is what will happen to post offices.

CervicalCheck Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Acting Chairperson for the opportunity to speak on this very sad saga and on the desperate treatment of so many of our fine women. I think of poor Emma Mhic Mhathúna, who lived in Dingle in our county for a while. My sympathy goes out to her family and to the families of all the other women who lost their lives because of incorrect diagnoses. Emma was a witty and charming...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a need for support for businesses that may not be closed but do not have as much business as they had heretofore. County Kerry predominantly relies on tourism. Suppliers of fish and meat that were supplying hotels, restaurants and small hostelry businesses have not been able to command as much business as they could previously. They are very worried that they will have to shed...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: There was a lot of merit in the Minister's first amendment. There are many good points in the Bill but lumping the proposal under discussion into the Bill is like putting the fox in with the hens. It is not compatible at all and it is not fair. A few weeks ago, we had a Bill here decrying the bulk-buying of homes in estates by entities and the outbidding of young people, including young...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too want clarification or to be assured by the Minister that what we are doing tonight will allow planning permission to be extended for people who are building their own homes, who fully intended doing so in the past 12 months or so, and then were refused funds by the banks or lending institutions because one or other person in a couple, or both, were on the pandemic unemployment payment....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that sufficient funding is put in place to provide for additional apprenticeships for students given that all courses are now oversubscribed as there is significant demand for apprenticeships and this demand needs to be addressed and in view of the fact that employers need to be subsidised adequately to ensure they will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will the Minister ensure that sufficient funding is put in place to provide for additional apprenticeships for students given that all courses are now oversubscribed as there is significant demand for apprenticeships and this demand needs to be addressed and in view of the fact that employers need to be subsidised adequately to ensure they will accommodate such students in the workplace?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I wish to thank the Minister for incorporating apprenticeship into third level as it is very important provision. However, there is a severe lack of electricians, plumbers, carpenters, blocklayers, plasters and mechanics in all the trades. There are severe shortages of skilled drivers for machinery excavators, bulldozers, dumpers and lorries....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for his understanding of the rule that applies to people at the age of 70. It is very severe and many good drivers are left behind. We need to have more young people coming into all areas. I believe SOLAS should be resourced to manage the registration for employers. Its key focus should be to link employers and apprenticeships and to develop relationships...