Results 1-20 of 120 for cork speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (21 Sep 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister will appreciate that we, in Kerry, have serious problems with students finding accommodation in places like Limerick and Cork. What can he do and what will he do in the future? More importantly this year, what can be done for all these students who do not have a place in Limerick and Cork today?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: People are waiting for up to two years for cataract procedures at Cork University Hospital. Can the Minister for Health operate the Sligo model in Cork University Hospital because the people of Kerry are disenfranchised and have to wait much too long? They will be blind for Christmas and for the next two years if these procedures are not rolled out.

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this very important motion. As we look at it, it would seem it only affects Cork city and rural Cork but, by extension, if it goes ahead it will also affect people in the county I represent, because the people of south and west Kerry and the people of east Kerry have a lot of interaction and financial dealings with the people of Cork on either...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Cork County Council tells us that the road will open some time next year. There are many reports and investigations going on. This road was built by people with shovels, crowbars and sledgehammers. We have all kinds of machinery now, but this local road is preventing people from Kerry from going to Cork or Ballingeary and vice versa. It is totally unfair. If this were happening here in...

Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...bends and beyond Macroom town where people are delayed in traffic for 30, 40 or 45 minutes. This project is of paramount strategic importance to all the people of Kerry, all those who travel to Cork and back every day for work and the many hundreds of people from Kerry who have to travel to consultants and doctors in Cork University Hospital, Mercy University Hospital and South Infirmary...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to raise with the Tánaiste a very urgent, serious problem that has erupted for the people of Bunane, Kenmare and on the west Cork side, Glengarriff and Bantry. A serious problem has arisen whereby Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, proposes to close the N71 Caha Pass tunnel between Cork and Kerry for ten weeks from 4 November. Everyone appreciates the work it proposes to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...is vital to help elderly and vulnerable people to remain in their homes for as long as possible. Everyone will agree this is the most cost-effective way to care for the elderly. The Kerry and Cork budget for this vital service has been cut by €3 million, however. Some genius of an official did not include travel in the costing. The home help staff do not have wings and cannot...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (21 Sep 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Of course, I welcome what has happened in Tralee. However, I am talking about students who do not have accommodation in Cork and Limerick today. For whatever reason their courses are in those colleges at this time. They are travelling by bus. They cannot drive themselves because they cannot get a driving test in Kerry - it is an impossibility. The leaving cert results come out too late....

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the reconfiguration of the National Ambulance Service. What it actually meant was a reduction of the ambulance service. Ambulances are being deployed from south Kerry deep into the heart of west Cork. Recently an ambulance crew started off at 8 o'clock in the morning and took a patient to Cork University Hospital. When they pressed the button coming out of there, they were sent to...

Order of Business (25 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...and funding of national home help services is to be undertaken. I ask that this be dealt with urgently. Operations and serious medical interventions and procedures are being delayed at Cork University Hospital and Mercy University Hospital in Cork due to a lack of beds. Surgeons are ready and waiting to undertake operations but they do not have beds available for patients after their...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...years. I fear that almost 2,000 people would have gone blind if we had not put in place that service. I am very proud and glad it has been so successful. Both myself and Deputy Michael Collins from west Cork got that service going and we were the first to do that. We are very worried now. It seems that political expediency is coming into this now and that Fianna Fáil and some...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...tremendous maternity services at Tralee General Hospital and I congratulate the doctors, nurses and midwives who provide those services. They are exceptionally good, as are maternity services at Cork University Hospital. For many people in County Kerry, Cork University Hospital is closer than hospitals in Kerry. As stated by Deputy Michael Collins, it has to be recognised that many...

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...added to the health budget again this year. People are languishing on trolleys, however, and waiting in accident and emergency units, and the number on trolleys has not reduced. The Taoiseach visited Cork University Hospital last Monday evening. Before his arrival, many trolleys were wheeled out of the accident and emergency unit into various wards. The usual number was two to each...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...is not their fault. We have a number of ambulances in County Kerry. Let us consider what happened two weeks ago. The ambulance from Kenmare was deployed and sent to Clonakilty. It took a patient to Cork University Hospital and was sent from there to take someone to the hospital in Dungarvan. It then made a second run from Dungarvan to the hospital in Waterford. It was then delegated...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...our airlines could be more proactive. If when booking a holiday, the passenger were specifically asked to give a passport number and expiry date, it would help. Enhancing the service in the Cork office would require further investment but it would create balance and take pressure off the office in Dublin. It would service the lower part of the country. One could get a passport and...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...get roasted in the local elections and in the next general election. It is delaying this review until after those elections. We have an anomaly in Kerry in that all along the Kerry border with Cork, the people in Kerry pay way more in property tax than the people in Cork for property of the same value, however that has come to pass. We have highlighted that often enough in the...

Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: To get to County Kerry, people have to pass through County Cork.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (13 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is, because of infrastructure, jobs and the health and safety of people going on the road to Cork.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Lower Lee (Cork City) Flood Relief Scheme: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why is there no elected member from Cork local authority in the delegation today? It seems to me that they would have an overriding say on behalf of all the people they represent. They are not involved today and we cannot hear what they have to say.