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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will tell the Deputy exactly what he said. He said that I chose not to participate in Government. One cannot participate if one is not asked to do so. The Minister can understand that. It is like someone asking a girl out to dance. If she says "No", he cannot force her to go to a dance with him. I was not asked to the dance so how can the Minister come in here and say something as if...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----have an allegation made about me as if I did something wrong. I ask the Minister on the record of the House to withdraw the lie that he put before the House.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I would like to make a point of clarification for the Minister for Finance and the House. During the negotiations on the programme for Government, the then leader of the Fine Gael Party, Deputy Enda Kenny, called me into a room in which-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am making a clarification. In that room, the Fine Gael leader stated to me that it would be good if I were a Minister in a future Government that he would put together. I said that he was not in a position to do anything like that as he had not yet spoken to Fianna Fáil, and that it could be discussed at another time. The programme for Government was then developed and the Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am just clarifying a matter. That is the truth and the Minister's statement was factually incorrect.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: VAT Rate Increases (19 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: That is all I wanted to say. I appreciate the opportunity to clarify and I apologise to my colleagues for the delay this has caused. The Acting Chairman cannot allow the Minister to tell a lie.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: That is a nice thing to say.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: Talk about biting the hand that feeds.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (19 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter regarding young teachers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25854/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (19 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 181. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be considered for community living as matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25700/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Shared Services (20 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 88. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason his Department has not responded to a request (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25965/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (20 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 134. To ask the Minister for Health the status of home help for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25859/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (20 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 141. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding conditions for home help workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25896/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26028/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Remuneration (20 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 167. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a HSE pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26050/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (20 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of social welfare payments for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25860/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 194. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25871/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: This is a matter that affects every Member of this House when representing their constituents. At a critical time in a person's life following a diagnosis of cancer, the least that we and the Government can do is ensure that he or she gets a medical card. At one time, once a diagnosis of cancer had been made, the person automatically got the card. That has not been the case over the past...

Home Help: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I acknowledge Sinn Féin for its work on the motion and I thank Deputy Butler and Fianna Fáil for their amendment. This is a terribly important motion to bring before the Dáil. Every Member knows well the tremendous good home help providers do in our communities. We were all very upset last week when home help providers whose payments were stopped were faced with having to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mental Health Services Provision (25 Jun 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that can be taken to improve the mental health of students at a college (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26740/19]