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Leaders' Questions (2 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to raise a matter of unfairness and the non-delivery of vital services in Kerry. I refer to cataracts. It is neither fair nor right that people of all ages have to wait for two or three years for a procedure. I will outline a couple of examples to the House. An 85-year old man, who is perfect in every way and is caring for his wife, needs a car to go to a shop and bring himself and...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not want any more figures. I know what is happening on the ground. The people of Kerry are just as entitled to their sight as those from any other part of the country. We told the Taoiseach about the Sligo model where someone who presents with a need for regular treatment will be seen in six weeks. If it is more serious, they will be seen after that in 12 weeks and if it is more...

Mental Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Browne for tabling this very important Bill on the agenda so we can highlight what needs to be done to help people with mental health issues. I have highlighted this in Kerry many times. We have a wonderful new facility which in June will be complete and fully built for two years but is still not open. Public representatives and many others were taken on a tour of this...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Invasive Plant Species (2 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 58. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if rhododendron plants can be banned from sale (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13685/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The programme for Government supports the transfer of landholdings from older farmers down to the younger generation. However, in recent times the farming courses by which farmers obtain green certificates are being intensified and lengthened. This is fine if a young fella is coming into a big farm or a farm that is economically viable. He will survive on that landholding with that farming...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a compelling need for a new maternity hospital which must be built as soon as possible. We need a modern hospital for mothers and children-to-be, built to the best standards in the world because the people of Ireland are entitled to it. I heard Deputy Michael Harty call for the maternity hospital to be co-located with St. Vincent's University Hospital, but I would have thought the...

Inland Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will not be supporting the Bill because many people are being prosecuted in the wrong. We need to know how many people were prosecuted in the wrong. They must have the fines returned and their characters restored before I will vote for anything like this. This Bill is intended to protect fish stocks, which is a goal I support. I support fishing, the tourism product it creates and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2016: Discussion (3 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Chairman. I am glad to have the opportunity to say a few awards. I thank Deputy John Brady for opening up this debate. Many people I have known certainly did not want to retire and, sadly, they did not live very long after retirement. A few of them were depressed and felt bad about it. Others did not live until the day they were due to retire.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2016: Discussion (3 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very much in favour of allowing a person to retire when he or she felt, as Deputy Clare Daly stated, still capable of doing the job. Some people are still very capable at the point of retiring. There is another side to it that we must be wary of, for example, where teachers retire and for some reason or other are re-employed. This is depriving young teachers of jobs, but I do not...

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Somewhere in the bundle of Bills down in the basement or wherever they are that are to be gone through is legislation to allow elderly people who wish to stay in their homes rather than go into nursing homes to get money from the fair deal scheme. Time is not on their side. I ask that the Taoiseach root out the Bill and bring it before the Dáil. People who wish to stay in their homes...

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will the Taoiseach bring this Bill out of the bundle so it can be dealt with here in the Chamber?

Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK’s Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (9 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am happy to speak on this matter. We have all said it, but the Ceann Comhairle called this the most serious matter to confront the country in a very long time. IBEC and other organisations, including the IFA, claim it will impact more on rural areas than on cities and greater urban areas. If we think of how things were in the period before we joined the EU, although they have improved a...

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad of the opportunity to talk on this important motion. On the one hand, the sale of AIB to reduce our debt is laudable, but where does this leave the surety of a bank service for the people in rural sparsely populated areas? If the new owners decide to take banks out of rural towns, what will the people do then? They will have to travel longer journeys. The people have stood by...

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to know the basis for the previous and current Governments' dislike of Leader companies. Rural areas have not had a Leader programme since 2013. It takes 18 stages to get a programme going and it is clear we will not have one in place until 2018. Five years without a Leader programme is not good enough. Rural Ireland is being hurt again. I am glad the Minister for Arts, Heritage,...

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is no-----

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach has not done that.

Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many farmers are being blackguarded when it comes to the current system. We asked the Government to review it. Where farmers' payments are being held up due to small misdemeanours, why can they not be paid 75% of what they are owed and the matter at issue dealt with after that? That is what we are asking to be done. These people have to live, they have to put food on the table and they...

Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It was promised that the appeals system would be reviewed and that something would be done about it but nothing has been done.

Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: No, I would not-----

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is he gone that long?