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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (19 Oct 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 841. To ask the Minister for Health the status of equipment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51028/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Oct 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 936. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive an ANC payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51133/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: On a point of clarification.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is on a point of clarification. The Tánaiste keeps using the words "stabilising the national herd".

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: Will he please stop using misleading language? That is like "reconfiguration of the health service". It is outrageous and he is codding the farmers of Ireland by coming out with that type of statement. Stabilisation means a cut. I ask the Tánaiste to call it what it is.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: He should use plain language and not gobbledygook.

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I would like the Minister's attention because the very first thing I want to do is publicly and humbly thank him and acknowledge a very important job he did, which was the help, kindness, care and consideration he gave to two small babies, Theo Whelan and baby Kate Mynard. As good as it is to come in here and attack the Minister and fight with him and say, "Minister, do this and do that", I...

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I have 13 seconds left. We believe that this extension is a very lazy use of exceptional powers instead of the Government ramping up rapid antigen testing, which the Government has utterly failed to do and which the rural Independents called for at least 15 months ago. The Government has also failed to increase Ireland's ICU bed capacity.

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: On a point of order, it is very wrong that a Minister would stand up here and say that other people, because they are voting in a different way than he wants, are reckless.

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: How could that be democratic?

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Chair cannot allow a Minister to get away with saying that because we are not going to line up in a row obediently behind him like little ducks and support what he is saying, we are engaging in reckless behaviour. That is completely wrong.

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: That is not democracy. That is completely undemocratic.

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I do, 100%, as the Leas-Cheann Comhairle knows, but I am asking the Minister to withdraw his remark.

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: A Minister cannot accuse us of being reckless in advance of our vote.

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is wrong.

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: That does not happen. A Minister does not accuse people of being reckless in advance of their vote. That is outrageous.

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is disrespectful for the Minister to accuse us of being reckless.

Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, personally for her recent trip to Kerry. She made a great impression and was highly regarded personally. She was very welcome and will be welcomed again. If she does as she did the last time and comes with her bags full, we will be delighted to see her. I thank Sinn Féin sincerely for its excellent motion. I was glad to meet with the...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Harkin and her group for laying this important business before the Houses of the Oireachtas. This Bill would allow a credit union to provide a greater range of financial services to its members. I thank the members of the Irish League of Credit Unions, ILCU, operating in County Kerry, be they in Killarney, Cahersiveen, Killorglin or north Kerry. The other day, I had the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (2 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 116. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a scenario (details supplied) regarding funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52938/21]