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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the delegates from the NTA. They should not take my comments personally. I am very disappointed over comments I have heard here today on giving out licences and allowing operators to decide themselves what runs to do. As elected members, our primary reason for being here today is to ensure rural people have a transport service, including a bus service. They are entitled to a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: That is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: When I hear about the cut affecting the route from Clonmel to Dublin, what hope have we from Caherciveen to Tralee and from Killarney to Cork? I cannot understand what has gone wrong. My daughter gets on the No. 40 bus on a Sunday evening and comes back on a Thursday or Friday. It is always full and she is standing on it most of the time. What has gone wrong? Bus Éireann...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I was not here and I am sorry. I would have been here had I known about it. It is clear that we need an answer from Bus Éireann on the routes it is cutting. If the NTA is able to subsidise, how can it say it can consider subsidising certain routes if the operators are deciding which routes they will service? Surely the authority should decide in the first instance which routes need...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: We were told Bus Éireann would go bust in March. The date has now been deferred until 1 May. What will happen the company's schools contract? Mother Teresa died and there is no one else to operate. What will the Department do if Bus Éireann goes bust? What contingency plan is in place for the operation of the schools contract?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I operate a very small bus service. I continued to operate my father's business, which he was operating since 1956. It is important that I be up-front about this. Many children throughout the country will be stranded, particularly in rural areas, if the company goes bust and the school bus service will not be provided. What contingency plan is there to ensure the service will continue to...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: That is not happening in my area.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: My question is on promised legislation. The previous Government, led by the Taoiseach, closed many Garda stations around the country. People are suffering because of that. Many homes in Glenflesk and other rural parts of Kerry were plundered and had valuable items taken from them in recent times. There is hardly any Garda presence in the entire Kenmare Estuary to defend communities...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: On promised legislation, the Government has committed to the opening of six Garda stations. Has the Taoiseach met the Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O'Sullivan, to agree the six Garda stations to be opened? Will some of these be in south Kerry, especially since the whole 55 mile stretch from Kenmare to Caherciveen is left without a Garda station? Will some of them be restored? Will...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach promised he would open six Garda stations. Where are they being opened?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: If there is room for a late one, I-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: In the programme for Government there was a promise that farmers who were struggling to survive would get assistance. A loan scheme was rolled out by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in which banks would give loans at low interest rates to farmers who were under financial pressure. This scheme is not working. To avail of the scheme one must be in the black and a good...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Deputy is dead right.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: It is relevant.
- Insurance Industry: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to talk about this issue. There has been a great deal of talk about the cost of insurance since I came to the House. Costs still have not been reduced. It is unbelievable to think that a perfectly good driver who is 70 years of age has had her insurance costs more than double from €330 to €780. Why should a young person who goes through the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Danny Healy-Rae: I want the Minister to clarify repair and leasing. Will vacant houses in rural places qualify for the repair and leasing scheme, or will the towns that have greater need and greater housing lists come first? The Minister says he has €32 million for 2017. Will it be for cities like Dublin, Cork and Limerick, where there is a much greater need? Can the Minister clarify if everyone...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Minister to clarify that. The local authority has told me that only areas with greater need will qualify for the loan. I refer to elderly people who go to live with their families and rent out their houses. Will people on a non-contributory pension be allowed to keep it?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry. Those are my two questions. I thank the Chairman.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Danny Healy-Rae: He mentioned it in his housing strategy when he went to Kerry.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Danny Healy-Rae: That is fine, but if it is a proposal of the Minister's. It has to be in the Estimates. There has to be some figure or concession given to-----