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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: There was a rule that if someone was planting ground, they would have to plant 80% of green ground versus 20% of waste ground, cutaway bog or other type of ground. Has that rule changed? When we are talking about peaty soil, is that the ground that is being brought back?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I agree with the Minister of State. He said that some crowd said we had a romantic notion about planting trees on blanket bog. I went through bogs with tractors and machines, and I can think of more romantic places to be. In one minute, you could be swallowed, and you would be trying to get up from underneath and to get out of the machine before it was covered up. There is a big...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Health Service Executive (8 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1993. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the amount that has been allocated by the HSE for respite services in Kerry in 2024 and 2025 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46584/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 2531. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent consideration will be given to a query (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46592/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am in a group.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Since you closed down Bord na Móna in 2020-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----the cost of electricity has gone up day after day.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: What are you going to do about it, Taoiseach?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Since you closed down Bord na Móna in 2020 the cost of electricity has gone up and we need to have a discussion about it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: What is the Government going to do about it?

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity. Even though so many people with disabilities are allocated home care or home help, often the home help never turns up, or at least not the amount of it that is supposed to be given to people. I have a case of a mother and daughter. The mother is minding the daughter for the past 35 years. The daughter got an acquired brain injury. She had strokes and...

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for this opportunity to talk again about this very important topic. Many parents face a challenge when they find out that their children have special needs. It is another challenge or big burden on many of them to ensure their children get a proper education. We know that every child has a right to education, and it is not fair that children with special needs are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47804/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on progress in relation to negotiations with school secretaries and caretakers regarding their request for pension parity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47971/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Home Help Service (17 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1079. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if the allocation of additional home support services care for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48301/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (17 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1230. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help availability (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48302/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to give urgent consideration to a query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49394/25]

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get opportunity to talk about this matter. I will start with drivers who are over 70. I have been looking for this for many years. I am a contractor, and my father was at it from 1956. We have a long record of service of taking children to school in Kilgarvan and Kenmare. I understand the plight of drivers when they reach 70. I had the finest drivers who had to park up and...

Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about the energy crisis. I thank Sinn Féin for giving it to us. What I have to say I have said several times before. Since Bord na Móna was closed down by the previous Government in 2020, the cost of electricity has gone up day by day. That is a fact. In the past week or two, different energy companies have been raising their prices...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (29 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 580. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to give consideration to a request for lighting at a railway crossing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43606/25]