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Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Tralee has been closed down.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: He is dodging the answer.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Who will answer it? Is he in charge or not?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is not a comedy. Tralee is closed down.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are not at fault at all. The Minister is at fault.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister does not respect them.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the provisions for the ladies who reach the menopause age and they are very welcome. I hope it will be of benefit to all of them. I have other questions on the nurses protesting outside the hospital in Tralee today. I understand it is because of the embargo that started last November which is still carrying on. A girl who came home last March after a career break-----

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will finish now.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: All of this is relevant to providing a service. If we do not have the nurses or GPs on board we cannot operate the service. The main question is why the Minister closed the ophthalmology unit in Tralee general hospital. There are 800 people on the waiting list there. If someone gets hit in the eye or something steel or whatever goes into someone's eye, and there are accidents happening...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk again on this Bill that does not make any sense. The people who fought for our country back in 1916, over 100 years ago, were glad that one of the things they fought for was freedom of speech and the freedom to express an opinion. There seems to be a different emphasis now rather than having a focus on those two vital aspects of having commonsense...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank them for that.

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Bill that passed in 1989 passed because it was explained thoroughly what the Members of the House were voting for and it was done in the right way. This Bill before us is putting in no limits or restrictions and what things the Government is hinting at. It is an open book. The people of Ireland do not trust those in the Government enough to give them an open book, and that is what it...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I did not mention hatred. I did not interrupt Deputy Murphy.

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: None of us condone hatred of any creed or description. It can be interpreted differently when the laws are being enforced due to the Government not explaining thoroughly what it is actually hitting at. It is covering everything with this. We do not know what we cannot say or what we can do, but the Government will find a way to cover it. Then, a fellow will pay the piper if the tune does...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 373. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the ophthalmology services in University Hospital Kerry have been shut down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43823/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (24 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide clarification on a college grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43692/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: What about the second bicycle shelter?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will not start on you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome to Dáil Éireann almost 30 retired nurses who devoted their lives to working in hospitals and caring for the sick, and I commend them on the service they gave. I remind the Taoiseach that these are the very people who came back to help during the Covid period, in 2021 and 2022. The Government is now taking and demanding money out of their pensions. The Government is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and what the Taoiseach is presiding over. No matter how much they try to disentangle from each other, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party are one crowd. They might as well rename themselves and get a new party because that is what they are. The Taoiseach does not want to take on the Greens because they get ministerial posts and the posts of Taoiseach and Tánaiste for...