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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 was asked to highlight one further matter. As the Minister of State knows, Comharchumann Forbartha Chorca Dhuibhne is operating in west Dingle. One of the managers, whose name is Páidí Ó Sé, highlighted the problem it has getting people to participate in the community employment scheme. One of the difficulties the organisation is encountering is that people cannot be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (4 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if discretion can be used to appoint a third teacher in circumstances in which small rural primary schools are short only one or two pupils in order to qualify for an additional teacher (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40372/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Facilities (4 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the possibility of sourcing land near to schools on busy roads to use as a car park in the interest of safety of children, parents and teachers of the school and of all road users passing by the school will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40389/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (4 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the inequality in pay for teachers whostarted working after 2011 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40397/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (4 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 122. To ask the Minister for Health when funding for Spinraza to treat spinal muscular atrophy will be approved (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40379/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Tyre Disposal (4 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the pilot scheme for collecting unwanted tyres from silage pits will be extended to Killarney and Tralee, County Kerry, for farmers who want to clean up their farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40375/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (4 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 224. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the inequality and injustice experienced by women within the pension system will be addressed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40380/18]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I commiserate with the family of Ms Emma Mhic Mhathúna, who have lost a mother and a wonderful person. It is sad to think we are speaking about the health service tonight that was not good enough to save her life and let her down. She was a wonderful person and the people in Ballyferriter made her their own. She was witty and everything that one would ask for in a nice person. Our...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is a savage attack on rural Ireland. Dublin and the big urban centres are not hurting. This a direct attack on small businesses in County Kerry. If one looks at any part of the Ring of Kerry or any rural area in County Kerry where there is a small guest house, bed and breakfast accommodation and a small restaurant, one will see that they will struggle to keep the doors open between...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They were just getting level and starting to get on their feet but now they are being trounced back down again.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak again on this year's budget. I acknowledge the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Deputy Ring, and the Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Moran, who are in the House. Both are dedicated hard workers. I thank them for their input into Kerry. The Minister of State, Deputy Moran, has visited flood...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I know he was self-employed himself and that he understood it. I had so many people come to me crying about it and they were proud people. They had paid thousands and thousands of euro in tax when their businesses were going good. When they went wallop, they did not have a penny and they could not get a penny. It was wrong and I am glad that has been addressed in this budget. I am...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is a different story in Cahersiveen and Waterville.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There have been no orthopaedic services in Tralee general hospital since last June. I have raised the matter with the Taoiseach twice already this term. About ten days ago we got notification from the general manager of the hospital that services were to begin yesterday but they did not begin. People do not know when the orthopaedic section of the hospital will open again. I have asked...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The right to freedom of conscience is a fundamental right protected by the Irish Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights. No person should be required by force of law to take innocent life. Irish doctors, nurses and midwives entered their professions to protect life, not to take it. For the first time in Irish history, a Minister for Health is proposing to force doctors to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Community Policing and Rural Crime: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Chairman for giving me the opportunity to speak. I welcome Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Carey here and even though I was not physically here when they started talking I was listening to them on the monitor in my office and I agree with everything they have said. There has been an increase in rural crime and where I come from we all agree that the closure of Garda stations, lack of squad...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42- Department of Rural and Community Development (17 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I also congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, on his appointment and I wish him well. He was one of our colleagues up to a few days ago. Now he is a Minister of State on the other side of the House. We look forward to working with him. I thank the Minister, Deputy Ring, for the great work he has been doing in the past 12 months in what is a very important Department. A...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to raise the matter of the clearing of the Flesk river in the parish of Killarney. The river needs to be cleaned from Gortahoosh bridge through Curreal and Glenflesk village up as far as Loo Bridge against Clonkeen. This stretch of the river is almost totally blocked with trees, silt and gravel which in the past nine or ten years has caused many houses in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are looking for no more than the people in Kerry deserve. We have gone down all the routes and all the surveys have been done by CFRAM. It was going on for six or seven years. There was agreement between Kerry County Council and the OPW to make an application under what was known as the minor flood mitigation scheme. That has been done. There are two applications with the OPW, one for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----these people are not left behind. The application has been made; it took a long time to get it in. That is what I am asking.