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Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to voice my opposition to the ramming through of this very important motion this morning, when only a handful of Deputies will get only a couple of minutes to talk. We certainly did not get time to deal with all these extra amendments. I am sure they will adversely affect many people who are trying to create employment. Ramming this through without any proper scrutiny reflects...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have one more thing to say. It relates to objectors. Deputy Canney raised the question of where the money was coming from-----

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----to help those objectors. The Government is giving money to-----

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----An Taisce and these environmental groups to object to planning applications and I totally object to that.

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank People Before Profit for allowing us this discussion. I appreciate that everyone is trying to do their best but, sadly, I see in this proposal a lot of nonsense that just will not work. The Bill does not state whether it is referring to local authorities or otherwise. In my view, the local authorities assess income and treat people on lower incomes accordingly. Those people pay...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: It was a small bit of a slip now.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too am very concerned by the rushing of this Bill. I fear it is going to adversely affect businesspeople, people who create jobs and people who pay their taxes and even pay for the likes of us in here. They contribute to the State's coffers in a big way. This Bill being rushed through like this will be at the expense of many hard-working people who are trying to do their best, create...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: It was An Taisce that appealed the decision. Perhaps the Leas-Cheann Comhairle was not here for the start of my contribution.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is so, but An Taisce caused the issue. Kerry County Council, in its wisdom, granted permission. The inspector came down and agreed with that decision. However, the application went back to An Bord Pleanála and was refused. That is where the matter lies. I am sorry that is the case because the people involved are good and hard-working. This is what An Taisce did to them. I do...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 678. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that necessary and valuable services are provided for people with disabilities and special needs. [38904/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 877. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expand the availability of social farming in rural areas. [36901/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (14 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 882. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give recognition to social farming and provide adequate funding to allow for the programme to be expanded and developed further in order to make it more readily available for persons with disabilities and other issues. [36900/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I also want to welcome the people from the HSE. We all agree that this has been a terrible neglect or hurt of many children in south Kerry. We all know that as boys and girls grow into men and women and their bodies change physically, many have mental health problems. I regret what seems to have been happening in many instances, which I believe was going on beyond the numbers we have heard...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Not all of it.

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Commission of Investigation Report: Statements (14 Sep 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak about this today because this is serious. These tribunals will have to be banned completely and gotten rid of because they are costing the State millions and maybe billions. There is no law that is being meted out to the people who have done wrong back over the years. The people to whom they have done the most wrong are the taxpayers, the...

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Commission of Investigation Report: Statements (14 Sep 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: They knew since June. I found that out today.

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Commission of Investigation Report: Statements (14 Sep 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: They knew since June that they were going to take the money out of the banks.

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: If members of this Government, including the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, were in any other jurisdiction, they would be tried for high treason. The first thing the Government did was to close down Bord na Móna. The price of electricity has gone up every day since. Everyone driving on the roads is being robbed by the tax content in the cost of fuel. Four...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Tánaiste blocked the licences.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Who is telling the truth, Tánaiste?