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Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: My brother declared an interest. I do not know what we has or does not have but I must also declare an interest. He does not tell me anyway. The Minister and the Government have said all along that money was not the problem in the building of houses, but it must be a problem. In Kerry, we are limited to building two rural cottages a year from 2016 to 2021. That is the truth, the whole...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is directional signage to places where people are working. There are 6,450 people employed in the drinks and hospitality trade in County Kerry, which is 10.5% of the total number of people in employment in the county. I should declare that I am the owner of a pub and have been for many years. I live there. This demonisation of alcohol is going too far. There was never anything wrong...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Worried people have asked me about the situation where pubs are close to schools. What will happen there?

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Are they going to be prohibited from advertising what they have on their premises?

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: All this will have a detrimental effect on employment and the people who work in these visitor centres and in the drinks industry as a whole. Again, the cancer label is a kind of stigma that people will look at and they will refrain from having just a social drink or a drink to which they are entitled after a hard day's work.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am still very worried about this signage-----

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and the effect it will have on these visitor centres and the people who, as was stated, in bad times set out on a road of creating employment and producing a product for the market. This will hurt them in a very real way. Maybe we cannot fully understand yet the implications of it, but the worry is that it will have a seriously detrimental effect on the industry and that there will be...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is what it set out to do, but many things have been added onto it in recent times.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very opposed to what the Minister is proposing.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: This amendment is deplorable. This is another attack on rural Ireland, or what is left of it. I am a publican and I make no bones about that fact. What is proposed will, as Deputy O'Keeffe noted, affect publicans in rural towns and villages who have given freely to sponsor local clubs. The Acting Chairman, Deputy Eugene Murphy, probably understands that most villages have only one pub and...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for not accepting the amendment. I did say that it would hurt people in rural areas more because in a rural parish or village there are perhaps only four or five businesses that can be approached for sponsorship. There may be one shop, one pub and perhaps a couple of other people that a club can approach so the proposed amendment would have affected rural areas in a...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: But it would inadvertently stop publicans from sponsoring the local GAA team.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: You are wrong to interrupt me, Acting Chairman. A publican cannot say he is sponsoring a team because he is serving tea. That is what was happening here. The measure could have been brought in very stealthily. A publican does a lot of other things than serve alcohol.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: He provides a lot of other services than alcohol. The amendment could deprive a publican of sponsoring a team which he gave his life to play for when he was younger. That is what the amendment is about.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I make no apology for saying it, no rural Deputy would think of tabling such an amendment. I make no apologies for saying that, Acting Chairman.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is what the amendment was about.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The amendment would stop the publicans from sponsoring teams.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Vótáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the progress that has been made with Killarney House by the Minister's Department. It is a great attraction for the town and the county of Kerry. My father ensured it was put on the investment programme in late 2010, and it has progressed well since then. On behalf of the people of Kerry I welcome the final stages in the gardens and so on. The national park was given over to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak at this committee. For some time I have been hoping to talk to the Minister of State in a public forum such as this because what I have to talk about is very important to some on the Ballinskelligs side of my constituency. Across the road today we met wonderful people from Conradh na Gaeilge which does great work and is trying to survive. We also...