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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We like to go to Galway but we dread them in the football, that is the problem. It is good to have the witnesses here and I wish them every success in the future.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 4. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if longer sentences and stiffer penalties for criminals who break into homes of elderly persons will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29824/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: To my mind one of the worst crimes that happens in our communities is where the homes of elderly people are broken into and robbed and the elderly people are assaulted. They have given their lives to bring our country to where it is. This is the most unsavoury crime that happens. 11 o’clock I call on the Minister to treat this as such and ensure the severest penalties possible...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: A home is a person's castle. I will outline two incidents. Johnny is an elderly man. There is a straight laneway of half a mile to his house from the public road. If someone opens the gate and proceeds along the laneway, he is watching at the window. He goes into an outside shed to peep around the corner to see who has landed in his yard. He will not make himself available if he does...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right. The Minister is saying communities should connect with the Garda, but that is impossible because of the closure of Garda stations in rural areas. There is no Garda station in Sneem and it is 35 minutes before a garda lands from Kenmare and almost an hour before a garda land from Killarney when gardaí based in Kenmare are out. Communities do not have the same level of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister needs to deal with this issue differently in rural areas because these fellows are at it continually and do it while out on bail, which should not happen. I am asking for mandatory sentences. We should lock them up and throw away the keys because elderly people are never the same once they have been hit once.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Fine Gael is now in government for seven years. If it is in office for seven more, it will still be at it.

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: And I am not Dick or Harry.

Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I support the call for microbreweries to be allowed sell their product to visitors. We have wonderful breweries in Killarney such as Killarney Brewing and we also have the Dingle Distillery, which produces Dingle gin among other products. It is an attraction for tourists to visit such places and it makes sense to allow them to buy a sample and take it away with them. Are the brewers...

Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It does not make sense.

Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Of course I am.

Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Of course I did.

Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister should not say I am not in favour of the rural pub. I want to tell him about the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross. Today, there was another serious accident at Glenflesk Church. Seeing as he has been mentioned, I call on the Minister, Deputy Ross, to resign because of what happened today.

Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, we will, a Cheann Comhairle. Microbreweries are a new phenomenon and an addition to our tourism attractions. It does not make any sense to try to stop people buying an amount of alcohol to take away with them.

Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister said he will not allow people to buy alcohol to take away with them.

Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Live horse, and you will get grass. That is only another tactic. I support Deputy Wallace's request to allow microbreweries to sell their product to customers and visitors.

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is no money available.

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to again talk about this very important matter. Since I entered the Dáil almost two and a half years ago there have been enough plans, schemes, reports and papers provided with which one could build several houses. That is the truth. I am very sceptical about this initiative. The Minister of State said "... a small equity investment of €20...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is not mentioned in the Minister of State's statement.

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have asked the Minister of State several times to tell us truthfully if the Government has the money for the scheme. I am very doubtful that it has the money. In 2015 we were told that €62.5 million was to be given to build social housing in County Kerry. That is well over three years ago and I can guarantee that €62.5 million has not landed in County Kerry. A total of 20...