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

Danny Healy-Rae: All right. I will do my best. Did the witnesses have any trouble trying to get planning or were there local objections?

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

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and how you present it. I have another question. I am concerned about this matter. Senator Daly mentioned grass. Why would anyone want to put green grass into one of these things? That is what we are about every day. In the small píosa I have, we would give a lot to setting grasses, trying to get the grass to grow. Why would we be trying to get rid of it into a kind-----

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

Danny Healy-Rae: We have an unbelievable growth of rushes down there. Would they be any good to this?

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

Danny Healy-Rae: We look forward to hearing more from the witnesses because it is very interesting, especially Mr. Gildea's story. It is just about the feasibility for smaller farmers. That is the concern that I have.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: It would be totally against our religion to put grass into one of these things. I would say that it is the same for Deputy Aird. I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (14 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 763. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the position regarding a facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54648/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 804. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter regarding medication (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54593/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad for this opportunity. I am not a member of the committee but I have an interest in and am very concerned about how this legislation will impact my county of Kerry that I represent, especially around Killarney, which I call the headquarters of tourism in Ireland. It will have an impact. We have hundreds of people who have been operating Airbnbs for a long time. If they have to go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is very clear to me that these people have been doing this for many years and they should not have to apply for planning. That is my contention and their contention, and this will be tested in whatever court it takes to decide the matter because they feel they are being hard done by. Their contribution to the local economy is massive. Consider how for a time in Kerry 36% of beds in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have to say, Chairman, I seriously beg to differ with the figures that were mentioned here, which say that, most of the time, only 9% of our hotels involved with refugees and asylum seekers. That is totally incorrect. The figure was 36%. I do not know where Ms McGuire got her figures. I know someone gave them to her but that is not what the reality was down in Kerry when the Ukrainians...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: It is basically down to where they are put-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Rural Bus Transport: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak. I welcome the witnesses and thank them for coming back in today because there are a lot of issues. In tandem with the questions I raised two weeks ago, I have a new one regarding Iron Mills, which is on the 270 route from Kenmare through Kilgarvan to Killarney. There is a request, which I will send on to Bus Éireann, for a bus stop at Iron...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Rural Bus Transport: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am conscious of the time. I am asking for the criteria to be changed to allow for consideration, given that it is so early in the term. It is still before Hallowe'en and allowance should be made for that. I ask Bus Éireann to consider that again. I also asked Mr. Kent about the Farranfore bus stop on the N22, which is located outside the local pharmacy. People are waiting there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Rural Bus Transport: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Bus Éireann is working on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Rural Bus Transport: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I heard Mr. Kent mention that Bus Éireann is considering allowing people over 70 to drive eight-seater buses or whatever. I am not happy with that figure because they are well capable of driving a medium-sized bus, which has between 25 and 30 seats. An 80-year-old can drive a car with four passengers in it anyway, and there is no question at all legally in that regard. Nationally,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 206. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a request for the tenant-in situ-scheme will be considered for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55808/25]

Finance Bill 2025: Second Stage (21 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for being here this evening to hear our requests. We need to thank him for the money that has been allocated. People will say there is a budget every day but the budget is about being fair. I know that Government has tried to do its best and to be as fair as possible. There is a complaint out there in a lot of people's minds that the working-class people, workers...

Irish Unity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was in the North today. I travelled through four counties early in the morning. It is a grand place with grand people. Like Deputy Michael Collins, I thank the consultants and staff in Kingsbridge Private Hospital for the great care they have taken of all the patients we have sent up for cataract removals, hip and knee replacements and all the other things. They are very careful and...

Office of the President: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome this debate. Something has to change. I wish all the candidates on the ballot paper the very best. Like a lot of others, I am of the view that the chance to run for President must be opened up to many more people. The current system is very confined and, as we have seen, it is determined by a few people as to who can run. The local authorities were to have an opportunity to...

Office of the President: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is all right, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I will not name names but many people feel a certain other lady should have had a chance to run. I regret, as others do, that certain people did not get a chance. The likes of the man I mentioned did so much to secure the Good Friday Agreement and for the well-being of our country. It is regrettable that he did not get a chance. He would have...