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

Danny Healy-Rae: -----his application is sent to environmental services, water services, roads and all the different bodies to measure it and come back with an answer. The planner then makes the final decision. This is not happening in this case, is it?

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

Danny Healy-Rae: That did not answer my question at all.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: Mr. Kinsella mentions jobs and all the other benefits but there is no proper planning process for this. There is no specification as to where these plants can be put or what distance they have to be from a house. Is there that stipulation in any part of the regulations?

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I know our senior planners look at what they have to adhere to but it is not appearing here.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: There is no compulsion on them to do that at all. They can say they met a couple of fellas down the road who agreed with it but there is no account of the fellas who were against it.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the witnesses very much.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes. I am sorry I was not here for the beginning of the meeting but there were other things I had to attend to. It is good to have the witnesses here today. I thank the Chairman for allowing me to talk because I am not a member of the committee. It has been brought to my attention by a respiratory consultant who is concerned. In the quest to reduce emissions and for construction to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: In some windows there is no opening or latch at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the witnesses for their response. I raised this because a specialist consultant raised the issue that she is receiving a lot more patients with respiratory problems and she was concerned that it was because of air circulation pumps.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: To me, a vacant property tax is not the way to go. That is a stick rather than a carrot approach. I would not support that any day of the week and I will not be. If the house is not fit to live in, then it is not worth going after. It would be very easy to show whoever is after the owner that the house is not fit to live in on a certain day, and no vacant property tax would be applied to it.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Review of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak. As the Acting Chair is well aware, I represent a rural county, although of course we have great towns. We have a vast rural territory. The issue of loneliness, including for farmers, was mentioned earlier. I am very grateful for Ms Earley's overview. I welcome especially Dr. Breandán Ó Caoimh. I know him very well. He is originally...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Review of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are quite prepared to take you on with the team we have. We do not have to go into any other county to take their players.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Review of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have lads coming up all over Kerry. We do not need other counties.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Review of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can I make one point?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Review of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will. It is something I wish to highlight to Dr. Ó Caoimh. We have a social farming model in Kerry. It is different from the rest of the country. It is to help to people. The participant is usually maybe a boy or a girl who is a bit slow and from a town or a village. They go out into the country and they see what is happening naturally. The farmers do not look to be paid or...