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

Danny Healy-Rae: The fact that radiation is coming from these things is not to be discussed.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: Castleisland in County Kerry has very high levels of radon. Sadly, I believe one family lost three members. Since then, the local authority has been more proactive in insisting that radon barriers are put in place to diminish any further effects when building a new house. In three cases people wanted to knock down their old house and build a new house in order to install all these radon...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I feel very strongly about this. Places like Louth and Wexford, and all the coastline in between, are very close to Britain. It could be much more troublesome if England finally leaves the European market because we will have less of a say. The west coast of England is almost as near to the east coast of Ireland as Dublin is to Galway if one looks at it in that way. It is very important...

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Michael Harty and Mairead and David in Deputy Mattie McGrath's office for putting the motion together for us. It gives me the opportunity to speak on a few very important matters. Waiting times for beds in Tralee General Hospital are unacceptable, with people waiting for two or three days. It is ridiculous. Front-line staff are an issue and we do not have enough nurses....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Burning of Land: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too am representing farmers in Kerry that have been penalised severely because their commonage was burned. I see that the Minister appealed to farmers and the wider public. How can the farmers who are being penalised be responsible for the wider public? As I understand the commonages that I am dealing with, the farmers did not set the fire. I am very sure about that. One man who has...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I take this opportunity to fundamentally disagree with the two previous speakers. I was brought up on a farm and was brought up to love animals and love nature, as I do. No one can ever say otherwise. I was brought up not to leave animals go hungry and to treat them right at all times. Some Deputies are complaining that roadside hedges should not be cut because to do so would destroy...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is why I am supporting the Bill's measures. I would like members to agree my amendment, but I am a realist, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was very interested in what Deputy Peadar Tóibín stated about the RSA having no input into the Bill. Is that what he stated?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: That body stated it wanted to increase the penalties for a person driving on a rural road having consumed a pint and a half of beer. It is the same crowd that is supposed to be interested in safety. It is the same group that is pulling in new lorries on the side of the road and taking them to test centres, even though they are only a few months old. That is what the RSA is doing. It has...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right, but before that will the Minister consider the merit in what I said about local authorities? They are not using their facility to cut dangerous hedges. What they have stated several times is that it is landowners’ responsibility to cut hedges and that they do not have the funding to cut. I do not know whether the Minister can make funding available but funding is probably...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister has said that landowners must pay to cut roadside hedges. I disagree with her view on that aspect, as I have done with many other people before now. Let us discuss what happens if a landowner tries to do anything outside his ditch but on the side of the road. He is not even allowed to erect a small sign that directs people to his business, property or whatever because the land...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I would dearly love to do so, but I know that I do not have the support I need to have it passed here and that if it went to the Upper House, I certainly would not have the support I would need. For these reasons, I will not move the amendment. I hope that at a later time, when people see the sense in what is being proposed in the amendment, it will become a reality and that people will...

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: As we all know, the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill is going through the Chamber at present. In the last couple of days, much ado has been made by the transport Minister and Minister of State of some public transport being put in place in rural parts of the country. It is ridiculous to think that eight routes in Kerry are supposed to meet the needs of all the rural people who will be isolated...

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want the Taoiseach to answer me honestly.

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Does the Taoiseach stand over a remark made by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport that I am a road traffic terrorist like the rest of my gang?

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Once a month is not a route.

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: When the Bill has been pushed through there will be no more pilot. That is what it will mean. It is a shame to think that once a month there will be people going to play cards and that will be classified as a route. The Minister of State is letting down the people of Kerry and rural Ireland.

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: When he was a member of the transport committee he posed very hard questions to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport but now that he is after getting a few bob and is a junior Minister he is standing behind him.

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Deputy Griffin will get the blame.

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry but he rose me.