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Carbon Tax: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk against the carbon tax. I am glad that Sinn Féin has at last seen the light, having voted for the carbon tax already. I am glad it has now seen the light and is against the carbon tax because it affects every man, woman and child in rural Ireland, including ordinary workers, people with cars going to work, commercial transport and lorries that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Island Communities (22 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I cannot understand why the cable car has to be closed for so long because in 1967 it was built in one month for £14,000. It will take eight months to repair it. We have cranes and helicopters in today's world, which were not available in 1967. Why will it take so long? On average, 200 tourists use the cable car every day. There are 50 cows and 600 sheep on the best of land. There...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Island Communities (22 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State and the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, for a positive response and outlining how they feel about it. We are asking for a ferry and that the structure be repaired sooner. The waters are treacherous, especially when the tide comes in. If ordinary people use boats, lives could be lost. When the tide comes in, it swings to the left, and when it is going out, it...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Island Communities (22 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and the Minister of State.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important topic. Families and workers in Kerry and all over Ireland are suffering because of the increasing cost of fuel. Many cannot carry on and will not survive. If diesel prices rise further, work will stop and wheels will grind to a halt. The Government did not recognise it two weeks ago but it needs to publish a mini-budget to deal with...

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: You have the wriggle room. You are taking in more money.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: We know that the carbon tax is hurting the people in rural Ireland who have to drive a car to work and the Minister knows that too.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are doing it in other countries.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are doing it in other countries.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister is insulting everyone. He does not know what is going on around him.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: What about those who are getting no fuel allowance? The people on benefit payments who paid contributions are not getting anything. The Minister is talking here and these poor people are suffering.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government is the denier.

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and Reports of Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to talk about this important subject. Good living people all over the world, in whatever country they are in, look up to the police. Instead of doing their job fairly and properly, police in Northern Ireland threw petrol on the flames at that time. The report has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that there was collusion at a high level between the RUC and...

Security Situation in Europe: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too am glad to have the opportunity to welcome the Ukrainian ambassador and her team to our Parliament. We wish them well. I hope the Minister of State did not get caught in the crossfire. He seems to be injured, but I am sure he is fine.

Security Situation in Europe: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: We sympathise with Ukraine and its people. It is not too long ago that a previous generation was involved in civil war and continuation of battle with the British until we got our own independence. As well as the trouble with Russia, there is a civil war threatening in Ukraine because there is a divide between the people. Some want to go with the east and others want to go West. We...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to raise with the Tánaiste the provision of the Shannon liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminal on the Ballylongford Landbank on the Shannon Estuary. A planning application is being processed at present by An Bord Pleanála. We need this terminal to have energy security into the future. We are leaving ourselves very exposed - given the current situation in Ukraine - importing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: All those ideals are fine. It is like live horse, and you will get grass. The Tánaiste talked about ten years down the road, but what are we going to do in the meantime? I am in favour of wind turbines in the right place, not near houses. Like everything, there are objections to them, and I support the people who object to wind turbines near their houses, but the wind does not blow...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: In the meantime, we are exposed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: What is the Government doing?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am calling for a full and comprehensive debate on the proposed Shannon LNG terminal in the Shannon estuary. We need to have a frank and honest debate here about the provision of energy. At present, we are importing coal from Russia and Europe is importing gas from Russia and we are then talking about sanctioning Russia. We need to have a frank and honest debate here about the provision...