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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: Kerry is a big county and there are rural places-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I compliment the Minister of State, Deputy Ring, on taking my part in relation to hedgecutting. I wish to inform Senator Warfield that I do not have a problem with the hedges inside ditches along the roads. I have a problem with hedges along the roads that obscure a person's view while driving or walking. I make no apology for calling for hedges in such circumstances to be cut all year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry, Cathaoirleach, but I was not here for most of this discussion. I was not asleep either because I had many things to attend to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: When I hear hedges being mentioned, whatever few ribs I have stand up straight. A ridiculous case has been made to protect birds. I always put people before birds. I represent a particular county and know that the countryside does not look well when the hedges are not cut. Hedges should be cut all year round. We are talking about the roads that people use so their safety must take first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the introduction of a rural social scheme. Unfortunately, the people who want to access it cannot do so. I know of many fellas who want to avail of the scheme but to qualify they must receive a means tested payment first. Sadly, they cannot join. There are also people who are in receipt of social welfare payments but do not want to avail of the rural social scheme. The real...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Planning was mentioned. I ask the Minister to do something about the planning scenario that has deprived young people from having a home. At present, rural areas are treated as areas under urban generated pressure. The policy was adopted to stop people leaving towns and building in areas outside of towns. The policy also stops a person in a rural area who buys a site 300 yards away from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for being helpful.

Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The people in rural Ireland are devastated with this news today. What is the Taoiseach going to say to Bank of Ireland, which is proposing to close one in every four bank branches in the country? Given the last Government and this Government supported this bank, is the Taoiseach going to allow it to do this again to the people in rural Ireland? It is the people in rural Ireland who will be...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I cannot support the Bill. However, I do not condemn the people who have put it before us; I just do not agree with their point of view. I have my own point of view and believe, as Deputy Michael Harty has said, that the mother's life is paramount and needs to be defended. However, I believe there are laws in the country good enough to protect the mother. I would be worthless in this...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome Vera Twomey and her husband to the Gallery this afternoon. I am glad to get this opportunity to highlight the lack of provision of jobs, infrastructure and services in Kerry. We cannot attract jobs and investment into our county because we simply do not have proper access. We have been waiting for the Macroom bypass for more than 40 years. We do not have adequate broadband or...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will be giving it again there next week.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It was not you who repaired them.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach did not answer my question seriously. I must point out that 41% of the economic activity in the country is taking place in Dublin. This means the remaining 59% is taking place throughout the rest of the country. As a man from the west and coming from County Mayo, which has the same topography as County Kerry, the Taoiseach should know well that the people of my county are...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It does not have the funding and it is not allowed to cut the hedges from February to September.

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about an announcement made by his Minister of State with responsibility for people with disabilities. When Deputy Finian McGrath went down to Kerry, he announced €30 million extra in funding for services for people, specifically children, with disabilities.

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes. However, across the road from St. Mary of the Angels, which he visited, is a school for severely handicapped children, St. Francis Special School. Is the Taoiseach aware that there has been no physiotherapist there for 50 children-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----since last September? This is in the programme for Government - children with disabilities.

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: In fairness, that is what the Minister of State announced below in Kerry, that there was €30 million extra for these services. At the same time, there has been no physiotherapist in the school across the yard from last September to date. That is not fair on those children and parents.

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too wish to support this motion and the call for more psychologists to assess the needs of children in order that their needs are properly addressed. I call for more transparency when funding is being awarded under the DEIS programme. I am aware of a situation in a very large school in Killarney, St. Oliver's, in which there are huge numbers of children who come from many different...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too welcome the Bill to ensure children who are in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance receive a medical card automatically. It is well known that parents with responsibility for a very sick child, who will be sick for many years, have enough to do and have other problems to get over every day, when they are landed with this noose around their necks. Why has this measure taken so...