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Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak about this Bill. Like all of us who have been elected to this House, we know that gambling addiction causes problems that lead to the breakup of marriages, homes and relationships and clean out businesses and farms. It is like everything; if you do it in moderation, it is fine. As with a few drinks or any substance, a little bit in moderation is...

Building Defects: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is nobody here, only me.

Building Defects: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad for the opportunity, first to welcome all the people here in the Gallery who have been affected by the light-touch regulations provided for by previous Governments. We see it here in Dublin, in Donegal, in Mayo and in different counties. When we talk about Donegal, we must remember that in Donegal houses are falling down around the people. We remember Bridie Gallagher in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (6 Dec 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 18. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has discussed the issue of an equal allocation of refugees and asylum seekers across all European countries, per capita of existing populations, with her fellow European Ministers. [58198/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (8 Dec 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 276. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on a serious matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61451/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (8 Dec 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 277. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on a serious matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61453/22]

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (13 Dec 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to say a few words about Bobby. I welcome his wife here and his children and brothers;all his family. Bobby was a wonderful man. We became very close friends during the few years we were together in Dáil Éireann. Indeed, I have to say that Bobby was everyone's friend. He loved his family, politics, farming and hurling - all the things country...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have no personal gripe with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, but we have serious problems in Kerry. I have highlighted them several times already. There are 171 voids in County Kerry. That is not acceptable. The homeless centre that operated for years in Killarney has closed down because the Government has offered people €800 tax-free per month to house...

Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this topic. Once again, this large carryover demonstrates the delays by the Government in undertaking the required infrastructure that much needed by the country, including public housing. We know the delays and interruptions to capital projects as a consequence of the country dealing with Covid-19 were responsible for the significant increase in...

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this very important motion to the Chamber. It gives us a chance to highlight some of the needs and deficiencies in our constituencies. In County Kerry, and in Killarney in particular, we have a critical lack of GPs to service the needs of the people across a massive area. Over 4,000 extra people - refugees and asylum seekers - have landed into Killarney...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (15 Dec 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on a matter (details supplied) in relation to the charge to take a foldable bike on a bus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62920/22]

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I admire the people of Germany who are actually opening up a coalmine to keep their people warm. What did the Government here try to do? It tried to stop people cutting turf to keep themselves warm. I can tell each and every one of those in government that in the last four or five weeks, people appreciate a fire when they have nothing else and they have no other option given to them. I am...

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is one minute and 30 seconds. What it is doing is selling out our land to English investment funds. We spent 800 years trying to get rid of the English and here they are, letting them back again to buy what land they can.

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Acting Chairman kept interrupting me when I was not anywhere near the time.

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this very important issue. When we talk about health in Kerry, we know people suffer immensely when trying to get into University Hospital Kerry. There are waiting times and people are waiting on trolleys. Ambulances are arriving and the staff cannot take in the patients from the ambulance. That is not acceptable. The ambulances are held up,...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Have I gone into someone else's time?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Tánaiste is aware the 2023 tourism business is beginning to open up currently and should be well underway by St. Patrick's Day which is only seven or eight weeks away now. To that end, I want to make him aware that up to 40% of hotel and guest house accommodation, 2,404 rooms I believe, or more, are taken up with refugees and asylum seekers. Some 400 men, asylum seekers, have been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----should be deported when they cause trouble and they should not get asylum here when they cause trouble.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Tánaiste has obligations here to the people in Ireland as well, to the people in Kerry, to the hotel and tourism sector and to all the people involved in tourism in Kerry. Is he going to free up the 2,404 hotel rooms in Killarney and Kerry and ensure the livelihood of all these people with craft shops, pubs, coach tours, jarveys, boatmen, cycle tours, heritage centres? Is he going...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Do not ever accuse me of racism or anything like that. We have refugees in Killarney for the last 20 years and I-----