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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (30 Sep 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 850. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51285/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is no such rule in the USA or the UK.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I appreciate that but time is of the essence here and I have a number of other questions to ask. With regard to the 270 bus route from Kenmare to Killarney, which is a great service, have the witnesses any notion in the world of developing proper bus stops with signs where the bus can pull in to set down or pick up people. We do not have that along the route. Some bus drivers will not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want Mr. Kent to check it as it is a very serious matter. Another issue is that for all the summer we were trying to get a bus run going for children in the Headford–Barraduff area. There were only nine children but ten are needed. Lo and behold, around the last week of August we found a tenth child, but we were then told we would have to wait until next year. One of the older...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will start where Deputy Michael Collins finished in relation to the 70-year-old rule. I spoke to Mr. Kent about this before and I am very concerned about it. The rule is ageist. Mr. Kent went as far as saying the RSA or some group was saying it would be a dereliction of duty to allow drivers of 70 or beyond to drive. What about all the 70-year-olds driving children to football matches,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was interacting with Mr. Kent earlier when our time ran out. I ask Mr. Kent to reply to me about the run with the nine children, which then had ten children. I want to elaborate a bit about Farranfore. I am incensed about that. There is a railway yard which facilitates people getting on the train for Tralee, Killarney, Dublin or whatever. The buses can go in there. There is a shelter...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this budget, which has been awaited by many people around the country to see if they will benefit from it. All of us here might do it differently but we have to go by the amount of money the Government has to spend, and the choices it makes about how to spend it is what we have to go through. There are many things that are welcome and a good few...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I did not interrupt other Deputies at any time. I will not interrupt them when they are talking, but I am telling the truth.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will do that in spite of anyone interrupting me. The facts are that I never voted for it. That tax will be coming in tomorrow morning without any vote here tonight.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is no vote about it tonight. It will go ahead in the morning because Sinn Féin voted for it before. That is God's gospel truth.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: They do not understand their place. I never interrupted them. In any event, I am disappointed with the way some of the carbon tax is spent. In the name of active travel, the road into Killarney is being narrowed. The footpaths are now wider than the road and the carriageway. Wide vehicles are having serious trouble passing each other at Fossa, where the great Cliffords who shook Croke...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: By helping the clubs, we will be helping the players.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak this evening. I want to clarify something in relation to the carbon tax. A question was raised here yesterday about the carbon tax by Deputy Doherty. It was stated that there was to be a vote held last night. There was no vote. I never voted for the carbon tax. Subsequent to that, another Sinn Féin Member put up a question on his phone to...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Never in my life.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: There was no vote on the carbon tax last night.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Deputies might be having a bit of fun. It is grand to have fun, but it is not fun for me. I never voted for the carbon tax.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am not under any whip from the Deputies about what way I vote. I will vote for the people of Kerry who elected me here. I am very sorry, a Chathaoirligh Gníomhach,

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome each and every one of the witnesses here, including the Leitrim social farming group and the Kerry partnership social farming group. All the people, participants, hosts, farmers and parents are welcome here today. I thank the Cathaoirleach for facilitating this meeting and inviting the participants because this is very important. We know people have little problems and there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Mr. Horgan is a host famer. He is actually my next-door neighbour too. He sees the benefits first hand when the participant comes to the farm. How can we enhance things for him as a host farmer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can Mr. Horgan see the confidence of the participants growing?