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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the carer's allowance payment would be exempt from a means test if the medical needs of the patient and the level of care being provided are assessed that it should be sufficient. [51022/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is scandalous. When we ask questions in the Dáil as to why this or that is happening, we are told there is a war going on and exceptional things are arising from that. However, during the Second World War, turf kept this country going. It was the boglands of the country that kept it going. This is an exceptional time. I am appealing to the Government, to the Minister and to his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to come to the meeting. I listened to our guests' presentations in my office. I heard most of what they said. Like all the other members of the committee, I have heard it many times now. What is going on is a scandal. We are talking about 17,000 jobs in total. There is also a spin-off to the local economy, in the shops and whatever else, including the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The wind does not blow all the time.

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this very important topic. I welcome anything that would help tourism in the country and, indeed, in Kerry. All of us are privileged to be elected to this Chamber to represent the people who elected us from whatever part of the country. However, I feel that being a Deputy from Kerry, I have an advantage because I am representing the best county...

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I work for those from every nationality, back over the years since I began as a councillor.

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The time has come that we must look at what we are doing because we have enough at the present time.

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this matter to the floor of the Dáil because it is very important. The Government has to accept that since it closed down Lanesborough and Shannonbridge power stations in the middle of the country, electricity has increased every whole day. As the cost of generating electricity had gone up so much, we were all resigned to the fact that we would have...

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: He will not even give us the right carbon-----

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Of course, the Chair is supporting the Minister to the hilt. You are one of them.

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Your balance is behind the Greens because the Government took them on board.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 567. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding refugees being moved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51666/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 86. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the crisis in the shortage of funding to deal with the provision of section 39 services (details supplied) that are struggling to continue to provide the necessary services for children and adults. [38903/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I respectfully ask the Minister to address the crisis in respect of the shortage of funding to deal with the provision of services by the Kerry Parents and Friends Association as section 39 workers who are struggling to continue to provide necessary services for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. They do specialised, challenging work and they operate to the highest...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I appreciate that talks have taken place and further talks are to take place. I look forward to that. As section 39 workers, these staff are not fully funded by the HSE. This impacts on the Kerry Parents and Friends Association because it is operating on an extremely tight budget and funds from fundraising are often used towards the costs of service provision. Pay parity is also an issue...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Approximately €60 million of extra funding for disabilities was announced in the budget. How is this to be divvied out? Will it be used to bring pay parity to these section 39 workers, especially the staff of the Kerry Parents and Friends Association? The association has operated these services since 1978 and the individuals who work in it are suffering because of the increase in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: They should all get it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank all the witnesses and the organisations here, especially Macra na Feirme. It is grand to see young farmers here who are concerned and who hope they can live out their lives farming. At one time it used to be a privilege, an honour and an advantage when the farm was given to the young fella that inherited the farm. It was an advantage for a long time but now it is a millstone around...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----that are going on. There has been no proper debate on this. All I am asking is that the people of Ireland be treated fairly. What I see in Kerry is replicated around the country in other counties. Every fella must look after his own. Whether Government or Opposition Deputies or Senators, we must all join together to ensure that fairness is meted out. We are all on the same page...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----because we are going to hurt farmers. It will be the death-knell of rural Ireland and the rural places that I represent.