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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is Mr. Foulkes aware of the damage that seagulls, grey crows, magpies, mink, badgers, pine martins and rats are doing to ground nesting birds, and is that being tackled at all? I do not hear anything about it.

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The programme for Government promised a fair and equitable health service for all. On 30 November, however, people suffering pain were dealt an awful blow when lidocaine patches, also known as Versatis patches, were withdrawn from coverage under the medical card scheme. The patches cost up to €150 per month to purchase privately. Was this change ordered by the HSE or the Government?...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I sympathise with all the families who have lost loved ones due to drink-driving. I do not condone and never will condone drink-driving but I support the right of people right around rural Ireland to have a pint and a half and not lose their licence because of that. I travelled for four hours this morning to get here from Kilgarvan and it will be the same journey back. I would travel much...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: This bill will be worse for commercial traders.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I am glad the constituency of Kerry has remained a five seater with 147,000 people to represent. There are a couple of discrepancies in relation to Rathmore, where part of the parish is on the Cork side, and it would be great if we could get it returned to us as it was taken from us. This comprises six townlands, namely, Rathduane,...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: My colleague behind me, Deputy Michael Collins, is very lucky for the present because Berehaven, Ardgroom, Eyeries, Dursey Island, Allihies and Cahermore on the brink of the Atlantic Ocean were part of the Kerry constituency previously. We would have no bother in representing those people if they came back to us, and a lot of them are anxious to come back to us. The constituency of Kerry...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----Killorglin, Caherciveen, Dingle, Tarbert and Ballybunion and all of those lovely places. It is the finest place and it is well able to accommodate everyone that comes. Whether they come from Hong Kong, Texas or wherever, they are all wonderfully looked after by the mighty people of Kerry. If there is an oil strike, or if anything like that happens outside of our control, we have...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to be part of the group which brought this motion before the Chamber tonight. It is imperative that all of us, as elected Members, ensure that our elderly people are looked after properly and to try, as far as possible, to keep them in their own homes as long as we can. We all know that nursing homes give people great attention and great care. However, if one asks the residents...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: She would get 20 hours of home help in Cork, but only ten in Kerry. That is the truth.

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It badly hurt many people that the Minister a couple of weeks ago said that elderly people were going to be means-tested for home help. That is shameful and disgraceful when a proper service is not currently being provided. Many people only get a half an hour of home help in the morning and the same in the evening, amounting to five hours per week. Such people do not receive any assistance...

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There was. A report in a newspaper stated that was being considered.

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Three years?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the enrolment policy for secondary schools; his views on the fact that enrolment is decided after all applications are received in order that the school will vet the person to determine if applicants will be accepted; and if persons in catchment areas receive preference. [53030/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 430. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, and the Road Safety Authority, RSA, to prioritise the need for a safer speed limit going through Glenflesk village and to improve the street lights also (details supplied). [52792/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte's Annual Report for 2016 and Climate Change: Discussion (12 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the delegation from Coillte. I have worked for Coillte over the years and my father started working for it in 1951. The Department has a rule that if one wants a grant to plant land, one must have 80% of green ground with only 20% of rough ground allowed. I do not know what type of county the Chairman comes from but in Kerry, particularly south Kerry, we have more like 80% rough...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach is marching on with Deputy Ross's Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill in order to please him or to pay him back for making up the numbers. It is not for the work he has done or for what he has achieved as a Minister. I welcome that more rural bus link services have been announced by Deputy Heydon. They will be a help to towns and villages at certain times. However, 38 buses will...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: If that is the Deputy's reasoning for the Bill he is in the wrong box. I ask him to apologise to the people of Kerry because what he said in this Chamber is not a fact.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Those are not what I call rural areas.

Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I thank Deputy Lawless for bringing this matter to our attention and for bringing this Bill before the Dáil. We have heard a lot about the Taoiseach's new strategic communications unit which is, in other words, a spin machine. He will spend €5 million on this project which will aid Government Ministers and ensure the favourable political fortunes of the Government. While...

Northern Ireland: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to talk tonight about the North of Ireland. Even though we are furthest away from the Six Counties, it still concerns everyone in Kerry as much as it does the people of the rest of the country. Great progress has been made over the last 20 years, after the 30 years of bloodshed, loss of life and damage to communities caused by lack of employment prior to...