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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (23 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 816. To ask the Minister for Health when an issue at University Hospital Limerick will be resolved (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24747/23]

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (Resumed) (17 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...I also want to thank the people in the ADAPT refuge in Kerry and all the people who work in the services. I also want to thank members of An Garda Síochána for the kindness they show to people at times of trauma in their lives after sexual violence. Members of the Garda are at the coalface of that on many occasions and the Minister for Justice can be proud of their record in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I commend an excellent report in the Business Postby Lorcan Allen, Daniel Murray, Killian Woods and Catherine Sanz on energy, housing, water and planning and how Ireland is on the brink with regard to those basic essentials we need. The common denominator in our failure in energy, housing, water and planning is the Green contribution to this Government. The sooner Fianna Fáil and Fine...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Is feirmeoir beag mé, so I just want to declare that. We are supposed to do that. I support the amendment as well, 100%. At critical times and critical lines, of course the Irish language should be used at every opportunity and promoted. I am reminded, and please allow me this one indulgence, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...ago, the Taoiseach, thankfully - I asked him to do so the day before - met with Macra na Feirme, whose members marched to Leinster House. It was reminiscent of the time, 50 or 60 years ago, that IFA members marched from all parts of this country to Dublin. At that time, Charles Haughey, God be good to him, was the Minister for Agriculture. They marched was because of what they saw as...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I want to tackle this issue. In speaking to the amendment, I want to come at it this way. Some of the retailers have been talking about this phoney price war with the reduction in the prices of milk and butter. I call it a phoney war because all it is a way of putting their names out there and giving the impression they are giving a better deal to the consumer. We all want to see mom's...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I want to raise the very important issue of our excellent home care support assistants, HCSAs, not least in County Kerry where they do great work taking care of people in their own homes. At the moment, a new system is being set up online to book holidays, do the travel allowance, the wages and all of that. Unfortunately, as the Taoiseach knows, not everybody is 100% up to speed and on...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am not going to be shouting at the Minister because I want to work with him. I want to try to reach a solution whereby we are all working together to ensure people are able to have homes, whether that is through people building homes for themselves, the local authority building them or private people who want to own properties and rent them out. We must try to have a mix. The shouting...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----writes a horrible, poisonous letter against a young, respectable person who is seeking planning permission and states that that individual should not have the right to have his or her entrance on the road, I say to hell with the person in TII and their dirty, horrible letter. I ask the people in TII to do something more important, namely, build bloody roads and bypasses, modernise our...

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: They will start kidnapping hens in California yet at the price of an egg. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this debate to the House tonight but I have to say that Sinn Féin and all the other people gladly voted for the carbon tax. Many of them said at the time that the tax was not enough. I remember distinctly Sinn Féin Deputies saying that we were not going far enough fast...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (9 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when legislation will be enacted to ensure that drug testing takes place at the scene of a road traffic accident (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21109/23]

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----and I will tell the Minister of State why. First, look at the folly of what is going on in Foynes, where we have mulch coming in from Brazil. There are thousands of tonnes of it and it must be transported up through the country to replace the peat we were producing ourselves. The Minister of State may shake his head because he is ashamed of that fact, which has made a lot of headlines...

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...people in the wet trades such as, for example, block layers, plasterers and people involved in construction. I am speaking in particular about young people in County Kerry. The Minister of State has a great, sound and solid working interest in this. I want him to try every endeavour he can to ensure we will be able to encourage young people to get involved in block laying, plastering...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Food Waste (27 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are any moves being made to stop good food being destroyed at a time when there are thousands of people who cannot afford food (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19947/23]

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Very briefly, I want clarification. This is a very important point if people have to declare an interest before a vote. For example, there are many retired teachers in this Dáil. If we are having a vote on issues relating to teachers, do teachers have to stand up and declare an interest? If we are dealing with an issue on farming, do Deputies who are farming at home have to stand up...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I warmly welcome the Ministers and their officials and thank them for their contributions so far. I will try to be as brief and concise as I can. I was listening attentively and I am very sorry as this is my fault. I am failing to grasp something with regard to the no policy change - I am speaking about the portion of money that is going to be put aside to deal with the whole Ukrainian...

EU Regulation on Collection and Transfer of Advance Passenger Information: Motion (25 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Of paramount importance to me would be the protection of privacy of data. We have seen different situations in the past where concerns have been raised over issues to do with the protection of data. On the benefits, for instance for air carriers, the new rules will apply for air carriers to transfer advance passenger information, API, data on passengers only to one single point of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I certainly hope that the Taoiseach would not accuse me of scaremongering on any issue because what I talk is facts; hard, cold facts. The Taoiseach spoke about housing. I want to highlight one of the main things that young farmers want when it comes to housing. All they want is to be given a piece of paper called a planning permission. It is something that can be extremely difficult to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Members of Macra na Feirme, an organisation of which I was proud to be a member many years ago, are leaving this evening to march to Dáil Éireann be here tomorrow. I earnestly request that the Taoiseach be there to meet them at the gates. It would be a good and proper gesture for the Taoiseach and Government to make. I want to speak about young farmers and the difficulties,...

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...I represent, we have 172 voids, which are empty houses. Why are these not being tackled and put into use? When local authority houses become available, why are they not put back into use within, at the most, a month? Houses like that should be turned around in five to six weeks and new people should be put into them. Deputies in this Dáil attack property owners. I have heard more...