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Order of Business (19 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is the Taoiseach aware that the local authority in Kerry is dezoning lands around the towns of Killarney and Tralee, which will have a devastating impact of on house building in Kerry? I know of 30 people working in Liebherr who cannot find a house to buy or a site on which to build a house. Will the Taoiseach direct that this process be delayed? It is wrong that any local authority would...

Order of Business (19 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: This issue arises out of the national spatial strategy, which is being directed by the Government under the Taoiseach's watch.

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are not the Rural Alliance; we are the rural Independents.

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for getting the ball rolling with this housing strategy. However, I will not praise the strategy until I see how it works because, as we all know, and as I know having been a member of Kerry County Council for 14 years, the devil is always in the detail and we have to see, as Deputy Mattie McGrath stated, how the blockages that we have been dealing with over the past...

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Domiciliary Care Allowance: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Each and every one of us knows that health is paramount to families, especially to parents who have children. Unfortunately, however, some parents have a heavy cost to bear and unfair burdens when their children become ill and may be ill for many months or many years. Maybe some of them will never get back to full health. When they look for domiciliary care allowance, to which they are...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Since being elected to this House, I and the other representatives from Kerry have highlighted our dissatisfaction with home help provision for elderly people in our county, which is unacceptable. We raised the issue many times in the discussions on the programme for Government, on the Order of Business and at other times here, but nothing has changed in Kerry with regard to improving home...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach did not give them money.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach did not give them the money.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: In regard to the new housing strategy, I am disappointed with the Taoiseach for blaming the local authorities and saying they lost their way in terms of house building. That is incorrect. The former Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government also blamed the local authorities in that regard, but the local authorities were not given the money to build houses.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach has again said that money is being provided. Are the blockages in the Department that prevented local authorities from accessing funding going to be removed?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: In 2013, the Government promised €1.2 million for Kerry County Council but the council could not access that funding. It also promised the council €62.5 million in 2015, which again it could not access-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----because of blockages in the Department. The Taoiseach is now unfairly blaming the local authorities, which I regret very much.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government did not give them the money.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Remove the blockages.

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very disappointed that the Taoiseach has been blaming the local authorities for the housing crisis. It is not acceptable. I deplore the fact he said that the local authorities had lost their ability to build houses. They could not build houses when they were not able to access money. The tenant purchase scheme, which was a great scheme that allowed tenants to purchase their houses,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (21 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will change the situation where grandparents are disallowed from caring for their grandchildren if they are 40 years older than the grandchildren given that this does not make sense as there are many parents who are over 40 years or more older than their children. [18702/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (16 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 281. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress being made in determining the causes of the increase in insurance costs in 2016, as most premiums have increased significantly (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25429/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (16 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1212. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase home help hours in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25275/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Rural Development and Infrastructure: Belturbet, Connemara and Kells Municipal Districts (20 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome all the delegates, from Cavan, Connemara and Meath, and thank them for their very well-presented case on the obstacles we are encountering in building roads and trying to survive in our communities. We have many of the same issues in Kerry and are still dealing with them. I will highlight two. One is the Macroom bypass, which is vital to the county and to attract investment to...