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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is just that there are very serious accidents there continually. I thank all the delegates very much.

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: And it did not do any good.

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I have to say that my family operates a school bus service and has for many years. All parents really depend on school bus transport to take their children to school. Practically all parents need their children to be taken to school safely. Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Governments promised that when the outlying school would be closed down, the schoolchildren would be...

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for moving this important motion. We all saw those people who came up so organised last week and highlighted their plight. It was one of the largest crowds that has been outside the gates for much of the time I have been here. The story now is this has gone as far as parents having to ensure they have a childcare place before they actually have the child. It has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Budget 2024 (3 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding will be provided in Budget 2024 for the primary education system to ensure mental health supports and reduce class sizes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42326/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (3 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 526. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42308/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 530. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if additional funding will be provided for the childcare sector in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42323/23]

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry to say that it is very clear that the Minister is taking the side of the Commissioner and she should be intervening and trying to sort the problem out rather than doing that. This change in roster is antagonising all those in the force. From what I have heard on the grapevine, what it will mean for Kerry and places like it, is that in a vast area from Killarney, through...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak on this very important Bill. I support it, as everyone who is elected here should. Deputies have spoken about people who died in terrible conditions in containers, including one case a couple of years ago. Other speakers mentioned the heat and lack of water, but people died because there was no air. That kind of death was totally inhuman. We must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: For the record, before I came here, I gave six or nine months of every year to forestry, so I know it too well. The first question I need to ask, because so many people are on about it, is about when the Department will start compensating people for ash dieback.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can the Minister of State give a timeframe for when the Department will start paying the farmers compensation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will they be compensated in full for their loss?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister of State kind of said to me that she is not sure if she can compensate them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: But the Department will not compensate them for their loss?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: How long will the Department be exploring that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: As has been said previously, confidence in the forestry sector is at an all-time low. There are so many things against it. The Minister of State will appreciate issues with land being made available, with the derogation rules, Gresham House sourcing and buying land, and another dimension in Kerry, where the national parks or environmental organisations, with approval from the Government,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I agree that farmers should be entitled to do what they wish to with their own land, whatever it is. For farmers who wish to buy extra land to plant with trees for timber, the Department seems to favour trees for timber and the construction of houses. There is another rule as well, the 80% rule, whereby one has to have 80% green ground vis-à-vis20% of outside or rough ground as we call...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: There have been a lot of meetings of this Oireachtas committee where we all made many serious contributions on the granting of felling licences. The Minister of State says the situation has improved a bit. It has improved for some but others are having serious difficulty and are waiting a long time to get a licence. Surely there must be a presumption that when forestry is planted, it will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: How long does a licence last?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Going back to the mid-1980s, we were planting what we call boggy ground that time. There has been massive growth in spruce trees in those places. In fact, they have been replanted in recent times, about ten years ago. Is the Minister of State saying that type of ground cannot be planted any more?