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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Debt Servicing (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for his reply. Last year, Greece paid €8 billion to service debts of €350 billion, while Ireland paid €7.5 billion to service debts of €214 billion. Why did it cost us almost as much as Greece to service €100 billion less? Middle-income earners cannot continue paying 51% or 52% tax. Services have been cut, including those for...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Debt Servicing (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Ireland is a small country with a small population. We do not have oil wells or gold mines. It is the working people who are paying this debt. It was not the working people or the people of Ireland who caused the problem; it was the bondholders and the bankers. I ask the Minister to tell the ECB bankers that we will pay. Irish people have always paid their way. We cannot pay until we...

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: This Topical Issue is about housing and the problems people are experiencing getting grants. It is the wish of the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and the Government that the social housing lists be reduced. This could be done if a number of things were rectified. To be eligible for grant aid from Kerry County Council a person must be 66 years of age. A...

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for his response. He had some interesting answers, particularly regarding the issue of houses with stone walls. What I stated about it is a stipulation by our local authority and it said it was a Department rule. I will have to investigate that further. The housing aid for older people scheme is a great scheme and it had ensured that many elderly people...

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Acting Chairman.

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Acting Chairman was interested in the topic.

Rugby World Cup 2023 Bill 2017: Second Stage (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I also wish to support this Bill. I wish the Minister and the Irish Rugby Football Union, IRFU, the very best in their bid to host the Rugby World Cup in 2023. This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase the venues and the country all around the world, and the advertising of Ireland in this way will pay for the costs incurred and the staging of the event. It has been indicated that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preserving Ireland's Natural Heritage: Discussion (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome all the witnesses. I heard only a part of Mr. Lumley's contribution, but I will dwell solely on that because I certainly know what he and his organisation are about. I know the hurt and damage they have caused to people in rural Ireland over the years. They have prevented people getting planning permission. I can name two families that do not have a son or daughter living beside...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preserving Ireland's Natural Heritage: Discussion (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: We need to protect the people who are trying to put a roof over their heads. I want to address what this group of people have done in our county over the years. There's a McCarthy woman living in Shronebirrane, in Lauragh, and no one belonging to her can drive. Her son had to move into the town of Kenmare or perhaps further away. He was granted permission by Kerry County Council. His...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preserving Ireland's Natural Heritage: Discussion (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why do we do things like that to people who are the salt of the earth and who have held and maintained their farms and landholdings over the years since before An Taisce was formed? Local property owners inherited the land and fought hard to keep it. The witnesses have talked about people being prevented from cutting hedges along the roads. Do they realise that people's lives are in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preserving Ireland's Natural Heritage: Discussion (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have a couple of other things to address. We will protect the hen harriers but why has Government refused to compensate the farmers? We often hear of burglaries of houses when people are out of their houses but what is the story when the farm is taken from them completely and they are robbed in cold daylight? They are getting no compensation. They will not be allowed plant forestry in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preserving Ireland's Natural Heritage: Discussion (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will just say there are others. Mink are cleaning out or rivers. Why is An Taisce not saying anything about them? It is protecting them. There are seagulls and hawks which we cannot touch and they are picking all the eggs from the pheasants and preventing the pheasant and other shooting birds from prospering. Does Mr. Lumley and his organisation know the harm and damage they have done...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preserving Ireland's Natural Heritage: Discussion (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I had to leave the committee meeting briefly because I had to speak in the Dáil. When I was going out the door, I heard Mr. Lumley talking about badgers and saying badgers had TB and he appeared to be worried about that. One does not get milk from badgers. Farmers cannot survive on badgers. Badgers spread TB to other animals. Farmers can be taken before the courts if they are found...

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There are a number of small things that could be done to help sort out much of the homelessness problem. Some genius decided that bedsits could not be used anymore, while fortunes are being paid to hotels to house people and people are still lying on the ground close to the hotel where I stay for two or three days every week. I am sure they would be much happier in a bedsit. I am not...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I refer to the former St. Finan's Hospital in Killarney, a well built stone building which stands on 30 acres of land on the northside of the town which border both sides of the bypass. It is a listed building, for which plans for its future use need to be formulated. We are all aware of what happened this week to a similar building, the former Our Lady's Hospital in Shanakiel. Much of it...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for his reply. I am happy to say, without fear of contradiction, that my late father played a big role in ensuring the restoration of Killarney House was provided for in the capital programme in 2010.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The programme was put in place before the Minister, Deputy Michael Ring, landed.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton, mentioned that there had been a trawl of properties owned by the State. Why then is the Government not already aware of this property? I have raised the issue several times at forum meeting of HSE south in County Hall in Cork. I call on the Government to ensure the building will not be allowed to become derelict to avoid the possibility of it burning...

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: We need - this is directed at the Minister, Deputy Michael Ring-----