Results 5,001-5,020 of 5,133 for speaker:Danny Healy-Rae
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: They were well able to do so.
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: Kenmare needs a bit more for the off-times.
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Ceann Comhairle very much. I am sorry for going over time.
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: Yes. Last weekend.
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I promise here myself-----
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----that if the Taoiseach comes down to open it, I will-----
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----the plaque on the wall-----
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----on the pier myself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister and his officials for coming before the committee. I wish our new Cathaoirleach well and indeed all the members of the committee. It would be nice if we could all work together and help each other. It is in the best interests of farmers out there that we do so. I have a lot of issues to raise. There is no clock so I do not know how to judge the time. ACRES-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I cannot see that, but anyway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: Regarding the ACRES scheme, what I am being told by all the people I am trying to get payments for is that the system is broken down. We have been involved in plant hire and school bus hire and everything. If something breaks down, it has to be fixed, or else it has to be got rid of. This system has been operating for two years now and it should have been streamlined and fixed long before...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: The National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, or the Government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: All right, that is grand. I will keep going. Pillar 1 and pillar 2 of the CAP have to be retained in order to keep farmers going. We have an awful problem. The Minister said there are 133,000 farmers in the country. How many will there be next year or the year after? Many young, would-be farmers cannot see themselves continuing the slavery and racket that their parents went through to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----and through the hills and glens of Kerry cannot live on fresh air. They need to get properly recompensed for the Trojan work they do, in spite of all the adversity. I ask the Minister to answer on the important points I have raised. We need more time to discuss them, but I thank the Minister for coming in today. I would appreciate whatever answers he can give me.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a driving test application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27131/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (29 May 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: 288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a driving test (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28787/25]
- Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to talk about housing again tonight. Since I came up here in 2016, we have been talking about it constantly. Every man and woman who has sat here in the Dáil has talked about housing but little has changed. I want to speak about vacant properties. I spoke about this last year, the year before and recently but the story is the same. There are...
- Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: We need to do more. We have talked enough and the Government needs to act now, please.
- Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am here as well.
- Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Gould and Sinn Féin for tabling this very important motion. There is no shadow of a doubt that houses in the local authorities are taking too long to turn around. There was one house in Killarney I fought tooth and nail over. From the day it first came up here, it took over five years to get that house in Marian Terrace turned around. There was vermin and everything...