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

Danny Healy-Rae: Could I just say-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is a bit confusing for a fella like me, but anyway. Like Deputy Aird, these forms and things that have to be filled out are very confusing for farmers and they should not be that way. It is a fright to God that fellas get fouled up. I have fellas who were advised to go into partnership. Since 2023, they have not been paid their ACRES money because they did so. They were advised by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Are the witnesses saying at this exact moment that they are short of information, or is it that they are not funnelled enough information, or the proper and full information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association (8 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: All we can do here as Deputies is ask for a fair playing pitch for all.

Housing Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (14 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have a chance to mention a few issues this. Housing, as we all know, is so important. There is so much talk about it and so many people are not able to be housed. I understand the Bill is to borrow more money to build more houses and to provide more housing. If this is the case, I welcome it. I have stated here in recent weeks that many people are leaving our shores because...

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (14 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this very laudable motion on the cost of disability. We all know it costs any person who had a disability more just to survive and carry on. They have a lot of issues. For people with serious disabilities respite in Kerry is practically non-existent when it is needed. We are very short of residential care places for children with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rental Sector (14 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The overhaul of residential tenancies legislation was intended to protect tenants through changes to rent controls and the expansion of tenant protections. However, it is very clear that, since the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2025 updates were introduced in June 2025 with the intention of stabilising rent prices, they have created a bigger problem as many tenants have been given...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rental Sector (14 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State very much for being here so late at night. I know she will relay my concerns to the Minister. Many people, including me do not believe it is fair to lock a landlord into a rental agreement for six years. This failed in Scotland, where the authorities have gone back to the arrangement they had in 2016. I am concerned about the Minister of State’s...

Reform of the Defective Concrete Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad of the opportunity to contribute to this debate as well, as I have many times in the past. I cannot understand how this is going on for so long but I heard the Minister of State say the different things that hold it up. I hope it is full belt ahead to ensure the people of Donegal, Mayo, Clare and any other affected area get the redress scheme and their homes back in order, as they...

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to speak about the grain and tillage section of our farming. Grain and tillage have been, are, and always have to be a vital part of our agricultural landscape. We met grain growers and they gave a very concise, interesting and serious presentation on the plight they face. They told us the number of farmers going out of the business and how many will go if something does not...

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----because we need the straw. All I will say to the Ceann Comhairle is that more than three hours and 32 minutes were given for the debate-----

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and I still only got two minutes.

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: We do not want to lose any more, like we lost the sucklers and the sheep men.

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: We lost the beet. This is our time today. I appreciate that the Minister and the Ministers of State are here listening to us, and I have seen them listening to everyone who has spoken.

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is our time to ensure that we do not lose the tillage men-----

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----or any more grain men. This is our time and the Ministers' time and it is your time too, a Cheann Comhairle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome everyone here today. It has been very interesting. Many of us are behind the curve in where the witnesses are at. There has been so much talk about anaerobic digesters and the value of them, etc. I have a few questions. Mr. Gildea might answer them. What is the minimum number of cows that a fellow could have on a farm to make it feasible to get involved in this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Would it cost a fellow much to get going?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Mr. Gildea said that over half the electricity he is exporting onto the grid is without payment so he is getting nothing for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: For the knowledge of everyone, the ESB is trying to impose smart meters on people who do not want them and that is a fact. I have another question for whoever will answer it. We might say there is no problem as far as planning is concerned for some fellow who is developing one of these things on his farm, as long as it is viable as he seeks to stay going and go forward. However, there is...