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Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Perhaps they would get on their feet and have enough to buy out the houses.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Project Ireland 2040 states planning in rural areas will be granted if it will not detract from urban centres. That is very unfair and hurtful to people in rural Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this very important topic. It could be construed by some that I have a conflict of interest here because I am a school bus operator, as was my father before me since 1956. I am proud to provide a service and to transport children safely to schools. That is what every contractor I know in Kerry does. I want the witnesses to confirm a few...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, and I am very grateful for being allowed to raise these issues. The Department has gone back on the promise it made, when it closed an outlying school, that the children would be transported to the central school in that parish. That is not happening in Scartaglen where the people were promised that they would be taken to the school in Cordal parish. They now have to travel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Through the Chair, if the RSA stopped a bus or had a problem with one, what would it do? My understanding is that it would march it off to do a full investigation and it does not go any further than that until things are put in order if something was found to be wrong. It is the same with lorries, even new lorries. Is that not correct? How is the RSA allowed to make a statement like this...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: In 2012 the then Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, changed the pension rules. Women who came of pension age and applied for that pension in 2012 either got no pension or got a reduced pension. While the Taoiseach indicated he would start to address that anomaly in this budget, I would like to ask him about another category of women who are mothers to the men and women of...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am opposed to the cancer warning on-----

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Does this include advertising?

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is it the cancer warning in the context of pubs and restaurants?

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have many concerns about how the Bill has progressed, because at the beginning it sought to protect youngsters from drinking too much and to stop alcohol from being too readily available at cheap prices for them. However, this Bill has gone all over the place, proposing to cover bottles with cancer warnings, among other things. This amendment would mean that people could not have a drink...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We enjoy those things in rural Ireland. Sadly, we do not have as many of them as we once had. Are we going to have a situation where gardaí could land at a Biddy ball like the priests would land at house dances long ago, coming in the front door to chase people out the back door and follow them down the road? Is that what we are going to have? This is ridiculous, to be honest. This...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: To suggest that it will be illegal to be given a free drink or for someone to make free drink available is absolutely ridiculous. Where will the Government get enough gardaí to make sure the law is followed? Gardaí certainly have enough things to do. They are very busy without sending them after people who are having a free drink. This is ridiculous. There are other issues...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was talking about this amendment which suggests that it would be illegal for someone to be given a drink.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very concerned by this cancer warning label.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It should not be there at all.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: If it should not be there in English, it should not be there in Irish either. This was added to the legislation just before Christmas last year with no analysis to justify its merits or how effective the measure would be. It is important to point out that no other country in the world has introduced mandatory cancer warnings on alcohol products and this will put us completely out of step...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will vote against it in English and in Irish.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is worth considering whether introducing cancer labels will solve our problems with harmful or underage drinking.