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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (11 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 605. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a sports capital grant in respect of a club (details supplied); when the grant will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12194/14]

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Technical Group for allowing me some of its speaking time on this important matter. What happened in the Chamber last week was a disgrace. Much time was taken up by the Government clapping itself on the back for what it called a job well done. I will highlight a couple of the Government's measures that it did not need to take but which have had detrimental effects on rural...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister of State cannot talk about what jobs the Government and the IDA have created in places like County Kerry.

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: With all due respect, come down to Kerry with me on Friday and I will show the Minister of State people who are desperately seeking jobs-----

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Tell that to the young people who have been forced to emigrate or to their parents and their grandparents. Those young people are in Australia, New York and England. The Government has done nothing to keep them at home.

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: This week's Private Members' motion relates to the ridiculous 25% cut to local authorities of recent years. More than ever before, we need local authorities to employ people to do the ordinary types of work that have been done for years. Is it any wonder that when people travel the roads of Ireland, no drains are being opened and no hedges are being cut? There is a race to the bottom...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 76. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ensure that our waterways, streams, and rivers for which he has responsibility in the Castleisland area will be cleaned of branches, and so on, that are growing into these streams and rivers and obstructing the natural way of the water. [12241/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Correspondence (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 140. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding town councils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12450/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Fleet Protection (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding inshore fisherman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12418/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 177. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the recent storm damage to forests, if he will provide compensation to farmers who are affected confining it to persons who have had over 25% of their forestry knocked in the recent storm; if clear fell licences will be allowed for these farmers if they want a site to clear fell; if a replanting grant will be made...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of a ground inspection in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [12444/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding REP scheme payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [12445/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding general practitioner contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12251/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the reason in the proposed draft contract for GPs there is a gagging order to stop GPs from saying anything about the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12252/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness (Vehicles Testing) (No. 2) Regulations 2013: Discussion (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: That is no Morris Minor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness (Vehicles Testing) (No. 2) Regulations 2013: Discussion (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: They have no room for guests.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Commercial Vehicle Roadworthiness (Vehicles Testing) (No. 2) Regulations 2013: Discussion (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I, too, welcome the delegates and their supporters. The contribution that they and their fellow enthusiasts make is massive because if the work of restoring vehicles had not been done in the past, we would have lost a very valuable part of our heritage. In my area John Mitchell and his family have given a lifetime to restoring lorries, trucks, motorbikes and other vehicles which will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: On a lighter note to Deputy Noel Harrington, on the Kerry side of the border, when we are filling in the forms, we fill the last part first. We confirm that people want the payment to be made through the post office and then fill in the form.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: My advice to people on the Cork side of the border is that they should do the same. I thank the delegates for coming. I must register my disappointment that the CEO is unable to attend. Everyone is busy and people have different places to be, but I cannot think of where is more important for the CEO of this organisation than before the committee. Mr. Daly and Mr. Sheehan are perfectly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Yes, but I said I did not want to use it. It is criminal. Two weeks ago the Minister said that if people were not shopping on the high street we would put the service where they were going for fear of losing business. He repeated this yesterday in response to Deputy Michael Moynihan at Question Time and the An Post delegates seem to have the same idea. If we nurture and promote the 1,100...