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Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am aware that the Minister is interested in this because this is what is involved when discussing rural Ireland. We must address this issue, return the funding and make discretionary funding available to the local councillors whereby they can nominate two or three roads each year which are not getting attention through any other means.

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I cannot believe the Minister. It is like the loaves and the fishes in that one must have the power to multiply. That would mean funding for our county roads and local roads would have been reduced, and the massive volume of traffic is from local areas into towns. I did not talk about the local improvement scheme. We are told, and I must believe our county manager, that there is only...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It has been cut back to practically nil. One year, when my father was a Member of the Dáil, we received enough funding to do 111 roads.

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The most frequent request at the doors, when canvassing in general elections and council elections and at clinics and many other places, has been for proper broadband coverage. It comes from every sector - schools, farmers, business people, manufacturing companies, private residences, people working from home and students who want to study at home because they need to download information to...

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are seriously deprived in this regard.

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Mobile phone coverage is very poor. It is patchy. The coverage is diminishing at an alarming rate in places that had coverage previously. It is not a good sign when some industrialist arrives in Farranfore Airport and goes a mile out any of the three roads from the airport only to find he or she has no mobile coverage. That is not acceptable. It is denying us the prospect of bringing...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am delighted to get this opportunity to raise the matter of the proposed Macroom-Ballyvourney bypass which will run from the west of Ballyvourney to Coolcower in the east of Macroom bypassing Ballyvourney, Coolavokig and all those treacherous bends and beyond Macroom town where people are delayed in traffic for 30, 40 or 45 minutes. This project is of paramount strategic importance to all...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The previous Government announced that this project was on the six-year investment programme. In which of the six years will that project be delivered? Will this project be in next year's Book of Estimates and, if not, will the Government bring it forward because we in Kerry have waited long enough? All the jobs being announced at present are for the eastern side of the county and we...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Post the envelope to Kerry.

Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to raise with the Tánaiste and especially the Minister for Health the provision of orthodontic services for young schoolchildren in County Kerry. It has become apparent that there is a four to five-year waiting list. This is not on, especially for young girls and boys who are embarrassed to go out and meet their friends. They may not even have teeth when they finally receive...

Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is included under the heading of health. I want an honest response.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I must declare an interest. My family has a small plant hire business that has been repairing and replacing water pipes for more than 60 years in Kerry. We all realise that water is essential and that without it, none of us can survive. For various reasons, many parts of my county do not have water at certain times of the year. They do not have pipes running in front of their homes, so...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: That should not happen.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I never interrupted Deputy Coppinger when she was talking. I have the floor but the Deputy may stand up and talk for the rest of the day when I am finished.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: There has to be equality and fair play across the country. If some people are to have free water, everyone will have to have free water.

Regulation of Charities: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, condemn the shameful acts of the people in Console. How was the HSE so slow in finding out how these massive sums of money were being misappropriated? Why was there not more thorough vetting of how the money was being spent? Several senior administrative staff vet each application for home help services. Why did proper checks and balances not apply in a case involving such large...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (13 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Six days ago, last Thursday, I used Leaders' Questions to ask about the Macroom to Ballyvourney bypass to see when the project would go ahead. The Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton, took the questions.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (13 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is, because of infrastructure, jobs and the health and safety of people going on the road to Cork.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (13 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why was I not informed that this project was not going to go ahead until 2022? I have become aware that last Monday an official from Transport Infrastructure Ireland or, as it was previously known, the NRA, informed Cork County Council that this project was not going to go ahead until 2022. Who is in charge of the provision of infrastructure? Is it the NRA, the Government or the Minister?...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (13 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can I just ask-----