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Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to speak about the grain and tillage section of our farming. Grain and tillage have been, are, and always have to be a vital part of our agricultural landscape. We met grain growers and they gave a very concise, interesting and serious presentation on the plight they face. They told us the number of farmers going out of the business and how many will go if something does not...

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----because we need the straw. All I will say to the Ceann Comhairle is that more than three hours and 32 minutes were given for the debate-----

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and I still only got two minutes.

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: We do not want to lose any more, like we lost the sucklers and the sheep men.

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: We lost the beet. This is our time today. I appreciate that the Minister and the Ministers of State are here listening to us, and I have seen them listening to everyone who has spoken.

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is our time to ensure that we do not lose the tillage men-----

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----or any more grain men. This is our time and the Ministers' time and it is your time too, a Cheann Comhairle.

Reform of the Defective Concrete Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad of the opportunity to contribute to this debate as well, as I have many times in the past. I cannot understand how this is going on for so long but I heard the Minister of State say the different things that hold it up. I hope it is full belt ahead to ensure the people of Donegal, Mayo, Clare and any other affected area get the redress scheme and their homes back in order, as they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome everyone here today. It has been very interesting. Many of us are behind the curve in where the witnesses are at. There has been so much talk about anaerobic digesters and the value of them, etc. I have a few questions. Mr. Gildea might answer them. What is the minimum number of cows that a fellow could have on a farm to make it feasible to get involved in this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Would it cost a fellow much to get going?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Mr. Gildea said that over half the electricity he is exporting onto the grid is without payment so he is getting nothing for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: For the knowledge of everyone, the ESB is trying to impose smart meters on people who do not want them and that is a fact. I have another question for whoever will answer it. We might say there is no problem as far as planning is concerned for some fellow who is developing one of these things on his farm, as long as it is viable as he seeks to stay going and go forward. However, there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right. I will do my best. Did the witnesses have any trouble trying to get planning or were there local objections?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and how you present it. I have another question. I am concerned about this matter. Senator Daly mentioned grass. Why would anyone want to put green grass into one of these things? That is what we are about every day. In the small píosa I have, we would give a lot to setting grasses, trying to get the grass to grow. Why would we be trying to get rid of it into a kind-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have an unbelievable growth of rushes down there. Would they be any good to this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: We look forward to hearing more from the witnesses because it is very interesting, especially Mr. Gildea's story. It is just about the feasibility for smaller farmers. That is the concern that I have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: It would be totally against our religion to put grass into one of these things. I would say that it is the same for Deputy Aird. I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad for this opportunity. I am not a member of the committee but I have an interest in and am very concerned about how this legislation will impact my county of Kerry that I represent, especially around Killarney, which I call the headquarters of tourism in Ireland. It will have an impact. We have hundreds of people who have been operating Airbnbs for a long time. If they have to go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is very clear to me that these people have been doing this for many years and they should not have to apply for planning. That is my contention and their contention, and this will be tested in whatever court it takes to decide the matter because they feel they are being hard done by. Their contribution to the local economy is massive. Consider how for a time in Kerry 36% of beds in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have to say, Chairman, I seriously beg to differ with the figures that were mentioned here, which say that, most of the time, only 9% of our hotels involved with refugees and asylum seekers. That is totally incorrect. The figure was 36%. I do not know where Ms McGuire got her figures. I know someone gave them to her but that is not what the reality was down in Kerry when the Ukrainians...