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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: One of the objectives of the programme for Government is to protect farmers' incomes. In that regard, farmers throughout the country are outraged at the behaviour of the factories in how they are controlling and reducing the price of beef at will. Farmers are coming together to see what can be done to protect their incomes. I appeal to the Taoiseach to do something about these factories....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Business: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses from Irish Rural Link and the credit unions and I thank them for their presentations. I concur with much of what Mr. Boland has said on the problems we face in rural Ireland and the problems that farmers and SMEs face in accessing funds to expand their businesses and provide employment. It is sad to hear that the creation of jobs in rural areas is in decline but we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Business: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: At the same time, energy costs are rising and there is no problem in getting people to pay. People are being told to leave the turf in the bog and they will be better off. It is absolutely ridiculous. There are many ridiculous things going on and not one word is being said about them except to let them happen and let the people suffer. The doors in small towns and villages will be shut,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Business: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Certainly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Business: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank all the witnesses. We are very supportive of their presence today which is very important for those in small places who are getting no hearing. Rural Ireland is being shut down under this Administration and the previous one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Council Strategy 2018-2022: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am delighted to welcome the witnesses here today because they play such an important role in ensuring that we retain our identity. If we do not respect heritage and culture and support it, how are we to know how we got here? It is so important to know how the people before us survived and lived and for us to retain that. For tourism reasons we need to protect national parks, heritage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Council Strategy 2018-2022: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am not as bad. I use the phone for phone calls and not for anything else. I accept it is modern technology and people get to see what is happening in other parts of the world. When we were young we were anxious to hear what our father, grandfather and grandmother were saying but I do not think that is the case with young people today. They have no interest whatsoever. We were so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Council Strategy 2018-2022: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Our heritage is important in the context of selling our tourism product. There is a difficulty with the current set-up in rural areas. Heretofore, visitors came to small villages and the meeting place was usually a pub and the visitors enjoyed those, but most of the local pubs have now closed. We are losing one of our selling points because people really enjoyed the old fellow singing the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government and An Post are ploughing away with the closure of post offices. The post office in Knocknagoshel has got no reprieve and will not be re-tendered. The people of the village will have to travel to Abbeyfeale in County Limerick. That is what they have been told. Likewise, the post office in Gneeveguilla is being closed and the people of the village will have to travel to Rathmore.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Last night, a big meeting, attended by more than 300 people, was held in Dromod to keep the post office open. It is in the Gaeltactht area so I am asking the Minister responsible to put his shoulder to the wheel. I am also asking my fellow Deputy from Kerry, Deputy Brassil, to ensure that Dromod is included in the confidence and supply agreement.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will the Taoiseach ensure that Dromod post office in the middle of the Kerry hills-----

Local Government (Water Pollution) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Martin Kenny for bringing this important Bill to the floor of the House. If this measure had been in place over the last number of years it would have helped many people and young couples who wanted to put a roof over their heads to get planning permission to do so. The Minister of State, Deputy English, and the Government are forever telling us what they are going to do to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The numbers of people on trolleys throughout the country is vast. In University Hospital Kerry the situation is no different. Often, when elderly people are well enough to leave hospital they are told that they should access the fair deal scheme and go into a nursing home. Many elderly people are reluctant to do this because they believe the next step is the graveyard. They see it as the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach's Government and the last Government set up Irish Water to provide a better service but many people are being let down in one aspect of the new set-up. When trying to resolve bills, people have to go through the number 1850 178178, punch in their account number and punch in their water point reference number, WPRN, but they can never get through to the same person twice. It is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: He said to me that he never owed a shilling to any person in his life and that he paid his bills all of the way. He is being billed €1,300 for water, which he did not-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----owe. He cannot resolve the problem. I ask the Taoiseach to ensure there is a human face on Irish Water in local authorities or somewhere where someone can go in and discuss the issue in order to sort out their bills but that service is not available.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is no human face to Irish Water in any county where people can go in and sort out their bills.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: In case that it a dig at me-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----I do work and my company, which is a small one, does work for Irish Water but I am entitled to represent the people of-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I never said anything about-----