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Motor Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (27 Feb 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: If the Government does not have that power, it should admit it is not able to do anything with insurance companies. This policy of stating it will not do anything is wrong, as someone must. People's cars are passing the NCT and they still are not allowed on the road. Why is that? Then there is the age limit, whereby insurance companies claim drivers do not have enough experience and...

Motor Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (27 Feb 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Make it mandatory.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (27 Feb 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 397. To ask the Minister for Health if he will be using the FEMPI legislation to find a solution in future negotiations with regard to pharmacists; his views on whether this legislation should be used in view of the fact the financial emergency is over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9343/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: A Cheann Comhairle, is-----

Provision of Cost-Rental Public Housing: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this matter for a couple of minutes. I thank the Green Party and the Social Democrats for bringing the motion forward. Increasing supply is the key to getting us out of the rut we are in. I do not agree with people who say that it should be the responsibility of only the local authority or the public sector to build houses. The private...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The worry of losing one's home or actually losing one's home is desperate. It is sad that even if a person or family has struck a deal with a bank the bank can decide that it does not want to deal with that person any longer and thus the family or the individual has to leave their home. It does not seem right that these financial institutions are allowed to sell off loans to vulture funds...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is an awful lot of talk about global warming and climate change. My views are well known on this. While I agree the climate changes, I do not concur with many people's views as to how it changes. Back over the ages and through the centuries, there has been climate change when we did not have as many cows, highly intensive farming or mechanical engines or vehicles. The climate always...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Does the committee realise the harm being done to the country and to the people that are trying to keep it going? Are they going to be broken further? Farmers are in a bad enough position as matters stand with Brexit looming. We do not know if it will be a hard border , a soft border or what kind of border, but one thing is sure, it will not be as good as they had it. There is a decline...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Does the Chair think what the Government is trying to do to the working people is fair in light of the fact that 0.13 of 1% is what we are emitting in this country? That is what we are liable for. They are choked and using face masks in Japan as they go about their work. They cannot breath there. We have the cleanest air. Go to Valentia Island, to the top of Mangerton Mountain or to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----it looks to me like they are trying to send us backwards. However, they might have a battering on their hands before they get all these airy-fairy ideas through.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to say a few words here to support agriculture in general because, as we all know too well, if agriculture is in decline the country is in decline. It is important to remember, when we are talking about climate change and getting rid of diesel cars and diesel vehicles, that we create €5 billion worth of exports from agriculture. We need to respect...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: How worried are the witnesses about the 2040 plan? Farmers will have to meet these targets by 2030 and we will not be able to cut turf or burn peat. Are the witnesses worried about that? If we have to comply with the Paris Agreement, come hell or high water, will it hurt Irish farmers? I did not vote to accept the Paris Agreement because farmers will pay. The Taoiseach and the Minister...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I depend on the Ceann Comhairle to be fair.

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We do not know what he is talking about.

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thought that today's numbers would have finished at the normal time and Members like us, who were waiting since yesterday, would have started then. Can you not give a few more minutes to-----

Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: How do you make halves of nothing? I welcome Mr. Pat Connolly and his concerned friends and neighbours to the Visitors Gallery for this important debate. They came all the way from Bantry. The motion suggests the prioritisation of traditional harvesters, exemptions for traditional harvesters harvesting under a certain amount and the protection of traditional harvesting rights from...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (8 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 186. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for mandatory sentences for persons that break in and burgle homes especially those of elderly persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10871/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (8 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 272. To ask the Minister for Health the reason high blood pressure is not considered for the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10903/18]

Order of Business (20 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: From 9 April 2018, which is only a few weeks away, one must have a public services card in order to renew one's driver licence. One must arrange an appointment with the social welfare office in order to get the card. That will be an impossibility for people in places such as Glencar, Sneem, Castlecove, Lauragh and Tuosist. We are told that to get a public services card one must have a...

Order of Business (20 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and that would have been accepted. Will the Tánaiste extend the deadline of 9 April 2018 to allow people more time to get their public services card?