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Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a need for a road to be built through the lands to ensure the safety of people accessing the bypass.

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to ask the Minister to meet-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----these people and let these honest people go home.

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Let them go home for the weekend.

Leader's Questions (11 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: These people have been waiting a long time.

Waste Reduction Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The amount of waste and rubbish, especially bottles, seems to be multiplying all the time. In different times, there was a charge on bottles. In pubs or anywhere else, when someone took a bottle away and then brought it back, one got back whatever they had been charged for it. Publicans were sub-charged for bottles and if they did not return them, they had to pay the bill which was very...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: While we are talking about rural Ireland and about Kerry, where I come from, I will say what I said one of the first times I spoke in the House. I firmly believe that we will not get fair play in Kerry until the Red Cow is moved out to Bull Rock in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. I believe we will not get fair play until that time. The Minister has departed but the Minister of State,...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The home improvement scheme only helps PAYE workers. It does not apply to sole traders, ordinary individuals working in private companies, etc. That is an imbalance which should be rectified.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I could go on for a long time.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Minister, Deputy Ring, not to forget the people in rural areas who elected him and his party colleagues. They are also entitled to fair play.

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is a straight question.

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: They say great minds think alike and fools seldom differ. While we have not been talking about it, I want to raise the same thing.

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government committed €950 million extra to the HSE this year. Without fear or favour I can safely state there has been no improvement in the numbers waiting for cataracts procedures or orthodontic treatment. Where is the money going? How is it that University Hospital Kerry, Tralee is still overcrowded with people on trolleys in the middle of the summer? Community hospitals...

Mortgage Arrears Resolution (Family Home) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Fianna Fáil and Deputy Michael McGrath for giving us an opportunity to talk about this important matter. Even though it has been discussed all along the way since I first came up here 17 months ago, many people are still in a great deal of trouble. One's home is one's castle, or it should be. There is nothing wrong with Fianna Fáil's proposal to set up an independent...

Summer Economic Statement 2017: Statements (13 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The improvements we hope to get in the budget are very important because many people have been left behind for years. The big imponderable is Brexit and how adversely it will affect our country and the people who work and try to survive here, especially those in agriculture. I heard some commentator this morning say that many English people believe the UK should not leave if it does not get...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care Provision (26 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 966. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the community ophthalmic medical services scheme is not yet rolled out despite being announced nine years ago; the counties and locations the pilot scheme is currently being offered in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35910/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (26 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which the Government will resolve the impact the new retirement age of 68 years of age will have on persons and businesses that had not anticipated this (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35909/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Eligibility (26 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1703. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason his Department stipulates that gross income be used to assess if persons can become local authority applicants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36527/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Recruitment (11 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 792. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address hiring issues within the HSE (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36962/17]