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Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Michael Collins and his group for tabling this motion and giving us all an opportunity to talk about housing and discuss it as much as we can to see if we can help. This is one of many motions, Bills and whatever trying to address housing, but we really need to get down to work and see after the people to ensure that everyone has a home. The answer has to be to build more...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for opening up this debate and giving us the opportunity to talk on this important matter. Yes, Ireland consists of Thirty-two Counties, not Twenty-six Counties. We need to know more from the Government as to what it means by not opposing this motion. The Government needs to be more transparent as to what it believes, what it is thinking of, how this will be done or...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Like everyone else, I was horrified by the "Prime Time" exposé. We have great nursing homes both public and private in County Kerry. We have great staff. They are second to none and do their very best. I cannot understand why different rates are paid to public and private nursing homes. I cannot understand that. There is no better place for elderly people to age than at home. We...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (19 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a trolley service will be provided for the Mallow-to-Tralee train service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33253/25]

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak. We have more public transport at the present time. There is a service from Kenmare through to Kilgarvan to Killarney that is great, but maybe a medium-sized bus would suffice rather than the large bus it has. Maybe we could get more bus stops. We need more bus stops because it is not much good to have a bus passing by when people are waiting by...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Business Supports (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State, but I am a bit confused now. First, I thank the Government for bringing in these two schemes. I also my local authority and all of the local authorities around the country for the great work they did in delivering those grants to the people involved who had applied. The Minister of State has just said that the local authorities are working through the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Business Supports (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to discuss with the Minister of State the promised appeals process for business grants where businesses were misclassified, including the power up grant. When will this appeals process begin? In the past few days, we have been in contact with our local authority and it has not been informed of any appeals process or it is not sure if it will happen. In...

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for coming before the committee this evening. I will start where the debate finished regarding Storm Éowyn and the sheds. Are the funding applications for sheds damaged by Storm Éowyn now closed?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for that. It was really needed. We spoke about TB at the meeting of the joint committee earlier. All farmers, myself included, are terrified of what is coming regarding new TB testing and what will follow on after that. One of the things I raised earlier was that even three years or three tests after a farmer's herd became clear, a description of what happened to...

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: What becomes of it?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are clear at this stage.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: My time is going. What about herds that do not buy in? Dairy farmers generally do not buy in; they rear their own. That is what they have been doing. At the same time, we are being told that they are the ones with a higher prevalence of TB breakdown than beef herds, which are buying in more often. That is caused by badgers and deer spreading the disease.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Department needs to place more emphasis on that aspect of it.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister should consider that. Deputy Aird does not buy in.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: When does the Minister expect the last ACRES payment on his books to be paid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for coming in. Of course, TB is a very serious matter. This testing has been going on for 46 years. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: We understand that other countries are now clear. Among the farmers in my neck of the woods, some are blaming deer and others are blaming badgers but, invariably, it is one or the other. It is they that started this thing going. There are some areas where deer are prevalent and other areas where badgers are prevalent. Do the witnesses agree with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry but I do not agree with that. Certainly, badgers are the carriers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: And you are entitled to yours too, of course. This is a very serious matter. The last Deputy referred to mental health and he is right, of course. It is an awful, traumatic experience for someone to have their herd taken, with no animal in the yard and everything gone down the road. It happened to people in the Glenflesk area last year. That was in October, the fall of the year, and the...