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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: That is the only time we bear any grudge against Dublin people. We wish them all the very best. In turn, we are entitled to survive in our communities. Would it help if there were one national design and set of regulations to deal with all the species of nature and nature conservation? It is recognised that the road is needed. It is a matter of people before nature, including insects and...

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: We cannot build houses because the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government has four stages in terms of getting approval, and one must climb that ladder. It will not agree to anything sent to it during those stages. It can take months or a year. There should be one design for a four, three, two or one bedroom, and if the money is available, give it to us and let us...

Order of Business (27 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: According to the programme for Government and the Department of Health, the provision of funding for home help is to assist elderly people to stay in their homes for as long as possible. The Minister for Health is not here but I need an answer from him in relation to €40 million that he made available for health services in June. Kerry was to receive €900,000 of this for the...

Order of Business (27 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach was not looking too bad himself.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: With regard to the programme for Government and the upcoming budget, I ask the Taoiseach and the Government not to raise the excise duty and VAT on diesel-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Working people and transport services cannot take any more and if the Government parties do it, it will hurt every man and woman in the country. I ask them not to do so.

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry, a Cheann Comhairle, we are not members of the Rural Alliance but of the Rural Independent Group.

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to raise a number of points about safety on our roads. I hope some of the things I will mention will be considered in the Road Traffic Bill we are discussing. Safety on our roads has been compromised by a number of things, including the lack of proper speed limits. I highlight the example of the N22 going into Killarney. For several years, we have...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is a very contentious issue. Like everybody else, I would love to have free water and for everyone to have free water. However, it appears that this motion is designed to give one section of the people free water. What concessions will be given to people in rural Ireland who have their own water pumps and septic tanks and to farmers and business people who have been paying for water...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 33 - Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have a question about the Leader funding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 33 - Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: There are a number of things to welcome. The €10 million for the village renewal is very welcome, and even though it is only a small amount, it is a step in the right direction. I believe the local authorities are to submit their applications to the Department for approval by Friday. I ask that the Minister does not delay long in turning it around. I understand that the work must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 33 - Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (28 Sep 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister mentioned the issue of mobile phones. It is obvious that the quality of the reception coverage has been deteriorating in recent times. I believe, as do many others, that the reason for that is that the larger phones are taking more out of the system. I am not doing that with my phone as I have one of the older ones. The providers need to be tackled about this. In areas where...

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Specific assurances were given under the programme for Government that flooding across the country would be dealt with. It is hard to believe it as the sun is shining here today but parts of County Kerry have had incessant rain for the past 24 to 36 hours. Waterville is cut off from Cahirciveen. The reason for this flooding across the country is because all our rivers are clogged up and...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (4 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for taking this very important matter. I ask him to reverse the decision being made by the HSE and St. John of God services. Not only are they talking about moving 17 people out of these wards, they are also talking about closing down the entire facility. We are told this is a HSE national policy that was ordained in 2011. One size does not fit all and I am...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (4 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: St. Mary of the Angels should have been the last place to be de-congregated, given its tranquility, the beauty of its location between Carrauntoohil and Beaufort and the fact that it is in the heart of the county, making it accessible to everyone equally. If there is a problem with the two wards then the Department should, as locals have suggested, build more bungalows on the land. The...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why is the Department holding up the building of local authority houses or social housing and curtailing the number of rural cottages that can be built? Why is this happening after all the talk we have had about housing?

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Sinn Fein Party for bringing forward this motion and giving us an opportunity to raise this important matter. I will start off by asking again that the HSE open Deer Lodge in St. Margaret's Road in Killarney, a purpose-built unit to cater for 40 patients. It cost millions of euro and has been lying there empty for over a year and a half. That is not acceptable. I raised it...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The assessment of farmers' land for the fair deal scheme is very unfair. I am not sure whether the stock on the land would be valued as well and thrown into the mix. This issue is creating stress and concern for the son or whoever is taking charge of the farm in that they might be landed with this unreasonable cost. It is unfair. It is their asset for generating income. In many cases it...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: With regard to the elements of the programme for Government dealing with the trolley crisis, why is the Government not providing funding for extra staff for the escalation ward in Tralee general hospital, or what is now known as University Hospital Kerry? The wards are there but we need staff to man them. The funding is not there. Why is the Minister not providing it?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (6 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of the fact that a school (details supplied) is presently closed, the parents want to know, his plans for the national school going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29122/16]