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Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about this. I am opposed to the setting up of a citizens' assembly, because we are the elected people in here to represent the people out there. Hand-picking a group of people, as the Government did in previous citizens' assemblies, is not fair. When one thinks about it, one of those assemblies which was very important did not include any...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for this motion. If all of us who have been talking about housing in here for the last seven or eight years put one block on top of the other every day since we started talking we would have a building built that was taller than the Empire State Building in New York. That is the gospel truth. There are a few things I have raised several times before. We have 171...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the proposers of the motion and I support their concern but I do not support their argument in its entirety. There is pressure on now and it has extended for a while, which is fine. However, we need to solve the problem. I welcome the Minister of State to his new position. I support People Before Profit's concerns, but we must do something permanent about them. I have been...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about this Bill tonight. The most joyous occasion in the world has to be when a little baby is born to a mother, whether it is a boy or a girl. It is very sad to think this is what we are doing to those people who suffered in a darker time when people had different and wrong ideas. A child born to a girl or a woman...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: They rang Tusla in the past number of days and gave the timeline of having been born and the timeline of when they were adopted out. We do not know what kind of an adoption that was because in many of these instances we know the foster parents or whoever they were-----

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I did not interrupt Deputy Sherlock.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I did not interrupt the Deputy when he was talking.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Those are the antics of the Deputy to interrupt me and those have been his antics. I never denied the Deputy the right to talk about the people of north Cork and if I am talking about the people of Kerry here, I tell the Deputy not to interrupt me at this stage.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am not answerable to Deputy Sherlock inside this Chamber at any time. I was elected by the people of Kerry and it is them and them alone I will answer to and not to the Deputy. I am telling him not to be interrupting me.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want the House to hear of this person I represent, or who is one of the people I represent in this redress scheme proposed by the Government. I tried to contact the agency involved and I gave the timeline of when he was born and of when he was fostered out. He could clearly prove that it was at nine months. He was told, I believe by Tusla who represented the State, that perhaps it was...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am all right. I will be fine.

Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are thankful for the supports that have been given to many people. However, I must say that in the past number of hours, I have got a woeful lot of criticism from working-class people; those in the middle who are paying for all of this. As recently as ten minutes ago, a man was on to me about his ESB bill. He is a working person. His wife also has to work. They have big bills and a...

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to discuss the important issues of excise duty, VAT and the significant cost of fuel for people on the road. The Minister stated that excise duty and VAT rates would be increased in, I believe, June and September. I appeal to him not to restore the rates of excise duty and VAT unless the cost of fuel imports reduces to what it was in January 2022 before the...

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: He wants to support the Green Party.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses today. It is very informative and educational to hear what they have said. I also welcome the concerned observers in the Public Gallery, not least Jason Fleming, my neighbour from Inchicorrigane, Kilcummin. We are at a critical juncture because, as was said, there is going to be a gap in supply created by what has happened over the past three or four years. My first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am someone who mounded in forestries going back years since track excavators were first used. Ploughs were used before that and there was a lot of hand work before that as well. We mounded places, only for them having been properly drained, that were quite useless for any other product. Is it correct that timber grown off that land, once it is grown properly, is as useful as timber grown...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is very important to spell that out, especially to a Minister in charge of forestry who is trying to ram it down our throats that broadleaf can be as productive as Sitka spruce on that kind of land.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: It has been a major mistake of this Government and the last, and even the Government before that. They would not give a grant to people who wanted to plant marginal ground. People had to have 80% green ground and only 20% marginal ground. That has been the policy of the Governments since 2010 or 2011 and that policy is wrong. We have a lot of marginal ground that would be good for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, that is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have just one question concerning the Gresham House deal. Is it felt this will drive up the price of forestry land in rural areas where farmers might be wishing to buy such properties themselves?