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Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: That is a great idea.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: Groups from all over Ireland are petitioning outside the Oireachtas today for the FreeStyle Libre blood glucose monitor to be made available to all adults who have type 1 diabetes. The recent decision by the HSE should be changed to provide the monitor to all those who need it, rather than only to those under 21 years of age. It is an important health device which would greatly improve the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (18 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter regarding a bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17004/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 227. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a matter (details supplied) regarding the AIM scheme will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17011/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (19 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by persons (details supplied) for naturalisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17130/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications (19 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 229. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a place in a care home for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17135/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates Applications (19 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 242. To ask the Minister for Health if a primary medical certificate will be issued to a person (details supplied). [17195/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (19 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 249. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an assessment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17239/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (19 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 280. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the mobile plunge dipping of sheep (details supplied) is recognised here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17261/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries Ireland (19 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 296. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a matter will be addressed regarding a trust (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17172/18]

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: What was wrong with de Valera?

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: On food labelling laws - and this goes back to the programme for Government - it was recently brought to my attention that companies packaging foreign meat in Ireland, especially pig meat, are using loopholes to sell their products to consumers as Irish meat. All they have to do is print "ES" for Spain or "DK" for Denmark on the packaging and then confuse consumers by including an Irish name...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (24 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: Can we speak to this amendment?

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (24 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to speak to this amendment. The constituency I represent is really concerned, worried and upset over what is being proposed. I want to speak about the changes in respect of our young drivers. In some of the places I am elected to represent, young people have no other way of travelling than to get their L-plates. Whether it is to go to a part-time job or from...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (24 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: All I am pleading for is a thing called common sense. My father was full of common sense. He did not go to university but I guarantee he had the brains of any person who ever went to any university. Where did he get it? He got it through common sense and through life's experiences. This is a momentous night because this and other nights like it have changed the course of the future of...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (24 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: Deputy Mattie McGrath reminded me of the last Government a while ago; I must admit I had it forgotten. There were nights that others, Independent Deputies perhaps, wanted to have a vote. They would ask us to have a vote about something we would not agree with and we stood up to give them the right to have a vote against a Minister in the Government. We might not have voted with them but we...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (24 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: They could have stood up tonight and given us the chance to have a vote and to let people at home see who was who and what was what. After this, we are going to have Fine Gael Deputies going around and talking about rural Ireland. They will say they did this, that and the other thing for rural Ireland. If they are asked what they did about the Minister, Deputy Ross's Bill, they can mutter...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (24 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am on the road traffic-----

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (24 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----because there is no traffic passing those doors now and you know it as well as I do, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. You are a man with your feet firmly on the ground and you know every single part of the constituency you represent as well as I know mine. You know that your area also has been affected by what we call rural decline. What are we, as legislators, doing here tonight? Are we...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (24 Apr 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: Yes, it is all coming back to the road traffic Bill, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle