Results 4,941-4,960 of 4,983 for speaker:Danny Healy-Rae
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (1 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: 857. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to examine the case of a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15008/25]
- Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for giving us the opportunity to talk about water, which is the most important item a community, population or country needs. All my life, I have worked with water services in Kerry County Council, as my father and my uncles did before me. My family are now involved in doing work for Irish Water in different places from time to time. Water is very important. We...
- Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: You did well there.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (9 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to discuss pension abatement for retired nurses who returned to work during Covid and other workers who returned to vaccination centres, wards and community settings. They were highly experienced people. They answered the call and came back to work. They were told their pensions would not be affected. Some went into mental health into the CAMHS clinical liaison support team. They...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (9 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for coming in to answer my question about this. I do not thank her for reading out the section of the reply that claims kudos for the number of extra people employed by the HSE. Clearly, the HSE, the wards and the hospitals are understaffed. Regarding this particular episode, these people who came back to work did so out of the goodness of their heart when...
- Protecting the Irish Economy Against Increasing Trade Tariffs: Motion [Private Members] (9 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: We have a new Cathaoirleach Gníomhach in Deputy Keogh. We wish her well. We now find ourselves in an unfortunate position. We hope the Government can deal effectively and efficiently with it. We are a small nation but we have a lot going for us. We need to get our act together. The first thing we have to cut out is spending on waste and ridiculous things that are not of...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (9 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: 55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on a proposed project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18040/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Pension Provisions (9 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: 276. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter in relation to nurse’s pensions (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17936/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Inquiries (10 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide on update on a matter (details supplied) regarding Leaving Certificate students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18125/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: 483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if five mainstream teachers will be retained at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16793/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (8 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: 486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16807/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (8 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: 487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16807/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Inquiries (8 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: 671. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16881/25]
- Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Labour for tabling the motion before us today. It is important. Nothing is more important than this. A large burden is placed on parents when they see their child developing autism. They have to fight for primary school education and special needs teachers. Then, when they move on to post-primary school, they have to do it again. Surely, when a student is diagnosed, the...
- Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry, but it is very important.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I respectfully ask the Taoiseach to look at the decision to stop elderly people from getting a grant to replace a stove, range or oil burner that has broken down. Since 1 December last, this grant has no longer been available to elderly people, the people who worked to put this country on its feet through the decades of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. These people are being denied a...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: What difference is that going to make to the climate, when we have bombs going off all around us in Gaza and Ukraine, and satellites and vehicles going to the moon?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry but I am very exercised about this. We have planes in the sky and all kinds of emissions but we want to stop little old people from having a fire to heat themselves.
- Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: People in Kerry are looking forward to the new planning framework and hoping it will deliver from them in a way previous plans have not done. I am talking about people who own land, not farmers' sons or daughters because they are being looked after. There are others who own an acre beside their parents' house, four or five miles outside Killorglin or seven or eight miles east of Killarney,...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (1 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: 86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the requirement for photo ID when applying for a public service card, as many people do not have a passport or driver's licence; if an alternative will be offered; if identity confirmation by a garda or solicitor will be made acceptable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20865/25]