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Men's Health: Statements (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is a very important debate. Men are slower to go to doctors than women, especially men on their own. I know that when men have wives and partners, they see after them and make them go. Men are tough and they persevere with pain, and they often let themselves go. I have known of too many cases where they waited too long, and they were at stage 4, where little could be done for them....

Fisheries: Statements (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get an opportunity to talk on behalf of the fishing industry and coastal communities in general. When fishermen cannot make money, coastal communities are adversely affected. We have to give credit to the British going back to the 1600s. They built up the fishing industry in Ireland and gave the local people at the time the wherewithal to get the fishing industry going, which...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (21 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration can be given to extending the dates for spreading slurry (details supplied). [57219/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to be here and thank the witnesses for coming. Some of the issues I will raise I have already raised several times in the Dáil Chamber. It is sad when I do not see a response coming. When we talk about vacancy and dereliction, how to deal with it and how to sort it out, we must look back at how it began or why it happened. To me, our streetscapes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have to realise that, when a house is vacant, it starts to smell, it gets damp and different things happen to it even after 12 months of being idle. One could at least have the windows open but vacancy leads to dereliction. We need to start there. I would be glad of the support to talk to the Government because I seem to be getting nowhere with it. I am at this for the last two or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: These houses are all around the country. They are in villages like Kilgarvan, Gneeveguilla and Scartaglin and different places. There are houses all over the place. People lived in them, they were happy in them, and I see no reason why it could not happen again. There needs to be the will. For it to work, the Government must realise that it must play its part as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: There can be many reasons why they will not sell it. One would be sentimental value or another reason. They might be waiting for a son or daughter to come back. We see so many young people emigrating these days. I was at a function the other night for ten of them who would be going away before Christmas. They will not be here for the Christmas dinner this year. They are going to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can I just say one last thing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk and to welcome these people here today. The more we talk about this, the more concerned I am getting. I remember when we talked about this back in my first term here in the Dáil. It was said that biodigesters were the way to go and it would help farmers to get rid of their slurry, and that is what it was to be about. Then, as for the Green...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: This comes from the Department. It states that the required anaerobic digestion and "related infrastructure ... [are] subject to consent, including but not limited to planning permissions ... ". I am worried about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: In all this rush, we need to be very careful. I am fully behind anyone who wants it away from his or her house. I do not want it near my house. When I hear of explosions and all this, I would not want it near elderly people's houses. I would not want it near anyone's house. We know what it is costing to build them. We know what it is even taking to get planning permission. Young...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I went to the North of Ireland yesterday. I went through four counties. A number of tractors were drawing maize - big, savage loads of maize - and I found out that they were going to one of these digesters. If that is what is going to happen in the South of Ireland, that is enough for me. I heard the other day about grass being put into these things. What we started out with was some way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not think they will ever say to cut the turf.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is a pity the witnesses from the National Biogas Concern Group will not have an opportunity, as well as us, to put questions to the next group of witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Sorry, I cannot hear you at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: With no disrespect to the two witnesses, it is very clear to me that the Department is pushing this through without due diligence and planning. From what I have heard, I do not think people need to go for planning permission to get one of these things built. Is that right or wrong?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is it in the Kerry county development plan? Is there a strict set of guidelines that says you have to be 1 km away from an existing house?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: There are no regulation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is very concerning. People's homes are their castles. There are so many people without houses. I applaud the people who have built their own houses and want to ensure the value is maintained and that they do not have to suffer these things beside them. It is absolutely reprehensible that the planning regulator will stick its nose into Kerry County Council and the county development...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is my concern. There does not seem to be any place for this to be thrashed out or for planners to do proper due diligence. For instance, when a fella puts in planning permission for a house-----