Results 721-740 of 4,983 for speaker:Danny Healy-Rae
- Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Unless the House is on fire, I think that we have a right.
- Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I want to take up where Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice left off.
- Finance Bill 2017: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I know a family who were ready to pay back the amount they owed, but the vulture funds would not accept it. They were paying back every penny they owed. They got money from family and friends, but the vulture funds will not accept what they are giving them. They will lose their home and business as a result. It is very unfair. As Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice said, they are Irish people....
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: May I raise an issue of concern?
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I want to ask the Minister how it is that if one is taken into hospital tonight and does not have-----
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: A person taken into hospital tonight will be charged €75 if he or she does not have VHI or a medical card. As soon as a person is in shape enough to sign his or her name if he or she has VHI or other health insurance, the health insurance company will charge over €800 a night for the same bed for the same patient. That is what is driving up the cost of health insurance. It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: They are given the parameters of how much they can zone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I object strongly to this being described as the national plan from now to 2040. It is not good enough to cover the next three or four years, not to mind the next 20 years. I am not signing my name to this or approving it as our plan because then Kerry local authority will tell us this is the plan as set out by the Government and these are the Members who backed it. I object to this being...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: We have been waiting 36 years for the Macroom bypass. Some of it will be built next year but it will not be connected to Ballincollig when many people thought it would be. While we are glad to have people coming to Killarney and County Kerry, the old Killarney bypass is badly congested. In 2004, we were shown grand plans in the Malton Hotel in Killarney for an improved bypass to be up...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: It has to be recognised that traffic volumes have increased everywhere. I do not think there is any plan to deal with this. Let us take my village of Kilgarvan, for example. The volume of traffic has increased. The volume going down through that quiet village is extraordinary. There are traffic jams now, something that never happened before in small towns and villages. That has to be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: A person cannot live off the land alone. Many have part-time jobs somewhere else. A person cannot live on the land alone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: He is coming out with it now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: He wants to punish the small farmer. Is that what he wants?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: What is wrong with that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: It looks like that is what the Government is doing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister of State should try to carry on giving an answer.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Government committed to taking in 4,500 refugees. We are told that 55 men are being moved into Linden House on New Road in Killarney. There has been no consultation with the local authority or the Garda, whose station is on the same road. There are community schools and national schools, including the Presentation convent school and St. Brendan's College, on the same road. Some 55 men...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister of State with responsibility for this, Deputy Stanton, is present. Will he consult with the community, the Garda and the local authority or will he take this high-handed action without giving local people a say in what is happening?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: It does not have capacity for 55 men.
- Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)
Danny Healy-Rae: Due to the continuous wet weather since last August, many farmers are in a bad way. Having fed animals for four and a half months, most of their feed is gone. Land is saturated and no one knows when it will recover or when farmers will be able to let their animals out again.