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Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Killarney National Park on its own comprises 26,000 acres of land in Kerry and the estate managers cannot control the rhododendrons not to mind-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The cost of rent in Kerry for families and one-parent families with three or four children has become very high. It is €1,200 a month. I want to ask about the housing assistance payment cap. The housing assistance payment in Kerry is capped at €575. Other counties have a much higher cap. In light of the increase in the cost of houses per month, which is €1,200 to...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: First of all, I sympathise with Ms Vicky Phelan.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not interrupt other Deputies.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I want to sympathise with Ms Phelan and all the other ladies who were misdiagnosed. I also feel for and sympathise with all the front-line staff who work in hospitals and give their very best to patients when they come in to be seen, whether they be nurses, doctors and front-line staff. I am disappointed with the HSE. People right across the country have lost their confidence in...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They should be sacked.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance Funding (1 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 350. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that funding and works are required to address a flooding problem at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18558/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The provision of housing is one of the main aims of this Government, and it is in the programme for Government. The tenant purchase scheme was a vital part of housing in all local authorities. For a number of years we did not have a tenant purchase scheme. In the past three years, a new tenant purchase scheme was introduced but only 80% of applicants are qualifying for the scheme....

Mental Health Parity Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Browne for introducing the Bill and for the opportunity to talk on the issue. The Deputy is right that we are not giving treatment to people who present with mental health issues comparable with the treatment given to people who present with physical or other health issues. I will talk about Kerry. To go back in time, there were 1,200 patients in St. Finan's mental...

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is important to say a few words on this penalty which should be used to confiscate the properties, buildings, lands, chattels, vehicles, etc. held by drug lords and criminals. The penalty should fit the crime. It is a different story for parents whose children are being born today at a time when drugs are available around our country. As they bring up their children, they have to face...

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I support this amendment as well because it is important that our system has better powers to deal with these people. They were giving us two thumbs up from abroad and doing practically whatever they liked. They took the view that they were untouchable in certain countries. I am unsure how far this will extend or whether those in other countries can still evade our laws and operate...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I sympathise with all the families who have lost loved ones due to drunk driving. I emphasis "drunk driving", however, because I do not believe that someone who has consumed a pint, or a pint and a half, and is under 80 mg is a drunk driver. The Minister is on some kind of a crusade and does not have constituents in rural areas who depend on their car to get to work, college or anywhere....

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not know why I should be called a terrorist when I only represent the people of Kerry who elected me and my brother to this House. The Minister could just as well be calling those people terrorists as well. The Minister has thrown a lot of things at me in this debate, such as the accusation that I was fighting this for publicans, but in the course of scoraíochting in Kerry, people...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We will be challenging it because it was an illegal vote. The Minister might be laughing now but we will challenge it as far as we can. The Minister does not seem to care. He is on some kind of a crusade, some kind of a power ego trip, to get this Bill through. However, he does not realise he is hurting honest, good living people. I am speaking for Kerry. Every other Deputy can speak...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister of State, Deputy McGrath, went to Korea and maybe he got a result because that chubby lad and President Trump are hugging each other now. Maybe the Minister of State had something to do with it.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I would not have stopped them from going anywhere.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister has said that he is colour blind. I hope he told the licensing authority that because if he has not done so, he will not be insured in a car he might drive. Perhaps now that he is a Minister with his own driver, he does not care about having a licence or not, but fine for him if he does. I put it to the Minister and to all the Deputies in the Chamber that this is the most...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (3 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has to wait for two years for medical treatment in view of the fact that their condition is life threatening. [19374/18]

Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I also have concerns about power lines being placed close to houses. A 30 kVA line was recently placed overhead in one particular valley. One person died from cancer in at least six households in this one parish.

Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can I not raise the issue of these masts being placed close to schools?