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Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raised this matter by way of question to the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, about a week ago and I am still very concerned about it. Today, I have six new people who are looking to get their tests brought forward. Two of them will not get their tests for seven months. This is what they have been told. I will give an example. One of them is a young fella from Cahersiveen who can do...

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is an emergency. I am asking the Government to do something, please. This happened last year-----

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and the summer holidays will take a lot of the testers away and the test wait time will get longer.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 233. To ask the Minister for Health if the need for a paediatric neurologist for University Hospital Kerry will be reviewed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24065/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (13 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 652. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an occupational therapist will be assigned to Kerry County Council to accelerate housing adaptation grant application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23531/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I congratulate Deputy Moynihan on becoming Chair of the agriculture committee. We are actually neighbours at the county bounds. My father and the Cathaoirleach's father were special friends all their lives. I wish the Cathaoirleach the best of luck with this committee. He is well able for it. I am glad to be a member this time. The last two times, I had to wait until the end of committee...

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this most important matter. First, I welcome Cara and her dad here again today. It is very sad that they have to come here again after being here so many times before. This is still a desperate situation where young families and young parents, when they find that their child is someway not performing to their liking and want to get them assessed,...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Michael Collins and his group for giving us the chance to talk about this worthy motion this morning. I support everything that has been said. It should be every politician's ambition to allow elderly people to stay and be seen after in their own homes for as long as possible. That is not happening in Kerry. At the present time, you can qualify to get home help or a home...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right. I appeal to the Ministers to see after the elderly people because they brought us to where we are. They fought to ensure that Ireland was a better place. They did their best. We must see after them but we are not doing it.

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to say a few words about the mayhem that is taking place, in our time, in another country. I know that Ireland can do very little but we need to stand up and be counted. What is happening is barbaric. We see children, old people and women being starved. People are being starved in this day and age. In case someone does not know about it, I know what...

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I oppose it.

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to oppose this proposal by Deputy Coppinger. She said she was amazed that anyone would stand up and talk against this proposal. I have to tell you, a Cheann Comhairle, that from every corner of Kerry, people have rung and sent emails and all kinds of messages to ensure that we stop this at the start. All of us living in rural parts of Ireland know the...

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am calling a vote now.

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to welcome Shane's family, Jim and Lucia and their girls. I am sorry they had to go through so much to get recognition for what happened on that fateful night. I commiserate with them on the loss of their son and thank them for doing so much to try to protect his name and to ensure he got the proper recognition he and they deserve. I thank the Minister...

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about this matter here again this evening. It is a terrible situation. This war really needs to end. I do not know how we can influence that happening, but we need to send a strong message from this Parliament. We are a very small country. We cannot do anything physically to stop or prevent the war, but we need to send a strong message that we do...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Today, I respectfully call for a new vision for Kenmare Harbour. What we needs is a practical, modest development, including a new pier, a safe slipway, a few berths for boats, proper facilities for the rowing club, a carpark for campervans and toilet and showering facilities to cater for tourists. This would create local jobs, support tourism by keeping people coming to the town all year...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: At the football.

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I remind him and the Ministers that small piers locally, including in Kilmakilloge, Coornagillagh and Blackwater, have been crying out for maintenance funding for safety projects and other things for the past several years. Returning to Kenmare, the local authority must work in conjunction with the Department of the marine and the OPW. The local...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: ----- that provide excellent food and all that goes with it. People are treated very well in those places.

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Indeed, they catered for more the than 4,000 cyclists who used the Beara cycleway last Saturday.