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Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I appreciate the opportunity to speak to these amendments. This is an important debate. The people of Ireland have experienced a lot of anxiety and have had an awful lot to put up with. They are saying in their droves that they do not want the Minister for Health or the Government to be given a blank cheque to continue at will without having to consult us, as legislators, or them, the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (2 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a detailed response will issue in relation to a series of matters (details supplied) on the privatisation of the water services sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30154/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (2 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30088/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Policy (3 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 255. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is a special grant for private roads in Gaeltacht areas (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30331/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Issues: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 May 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I appreciate the opportunity to make my views known on behalf of the people I represent. I have been trained from a young age to treat everybody with nothing but respect and courtesy, and the Chairman knows I will act that way today. However, today is testing me very much and I will tell you why. I am personal friends with farmers whose lives have been held up, disrupted and upset and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Issues: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (27 May 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I ask the Chairman to leave me finish on a happy note. I ask, on two bended knees, our guests to do the necessary work. It is not impossible. We are not asking the officials to climb Mount Everest. All we are asking is that they start to go through the backlog in a workmanlike way. I call on them to roll up their sleeves and tear at the job of work that needs doing. Do not mind talking...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 May 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am very thankful for this morning's excellent presentation because it is important. It is an eye-opener for some of us. I am certainly taken aback by some of the facts. They show we have an awful political operation ahead in the recovery to try to get ourselves to a place of financial stability in the future, while trying to do our best for the people who elect us and trying to ensure...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: Yes. I move amendment No. 89: In page 11, line 36, to delete "The Government" and substitute "Both Houses of the Oireachtas". The amendment is self-explanatory. I could speak to every amendment, but I do not want to hog the meeting or delay it unnecessarily. Our amendment will be debated again at a later Stage. To facilitate the committee, I would like to deal with this amendment as...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: Yes. I appreciate the Chairman allowing me to do that in order that we can carry out our role properly.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I move amendment No. 95: In page 12, line 25, to delete “the Government” and substitute “both Houses of the Oireachtas”.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: Not now, no.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I move amendment No. 100: In page 13, line 16, to delete “the Government” and substitute “both Houses of the Oireachtas”.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I move amendment No. 102: In page 13, line 26, to delete “the Government” and substitute “both Houses of the Oireachtas”.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I move amendment No. 103: In page 13, line 27, to delete “five years” and substitute “two years”.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I move amendment No. 104: In page 13, lines 27 and 28, to delete “31 December 2025” and substitute “31 December 2022”.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: When we are talking about carbon, surely one of the main things we should do is encourage the people who are already contributing to the well-being of our society and environment. Take, for instance, the farmers involved in forestry. There is no such thing as a system of carbon credits for those farmers. Take farmers who have existing hedgerows, groves or wooded areas that have...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: Through the Chair, if the Minister of State agrees, why is the Government not doing that?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: Why is the Government not doing something to help our farmers and let them see that they are being credited for the work they have done and that our forestry industry is being credited? It is fine for the Minister of State to say he agrees with me, but why not do something about it? Why not make this a valuable, tangible asset such that carbon credits are attributed to farms that are...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am sorry.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jun 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I move amendment No. 115: In page 14, line 40, to delete “in so far as practicable,”.