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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (29 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 760. To ask the Minister for Health if extra funding will be made available for home help to ensure that elderly persons can remain in their own homes for as long as possible. [27117/20]

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (23 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...That has not happened and children have been left on the side of the road in all the places I have mentioned. Deputy Murnane O'Connor mentioned the over 70s. I have known about this rule for a long time. It is hard to get drivers for school buses now. The exclusion of the over 70s is not a State rule but was brought in by Bus Éireann whereby when one reaches 70 years of age,...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (Resumed) (16 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...who is responsible for the quality of the food? I thank all of the wonderful home helps, as we call them in Kerry, for the wonderful work they do for people who want to stay in their homes for as long as possible. We do not have funding to employ enough home helps to give adequate time to the elderly people who want to remain in their homes for as long as possible.

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Cancer Screening: Motion [Private Members] (8 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...this very important topic to the floor of the Dáil, which gives us a chance to debate this very important issue. Cancer screening is so important and the fact that it was delayed or cancelled for so long means that there are people lining up for services. I understand it is the people who already have cancer who are being screened but we know the story. There is stage 1, stage 2,...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...that 50% of the cases of coronavirus are emanating from Dublin or the greater Dublin area. Two thirds of the pubs are open here in Dublin. Two thirds of them are still closed down in Kerry and along the west coast. These people have done nothing wrong. We are suggesting that uniformed or plain-clothes gardaí can enter a premises. It does not say whether it is a private house...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (2 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...this Government is at it again. It will not allow honest, hard-working publicans to open their doors to the people, such as the poor man on the side of the hill who has not had a drink since almost as long ago as Christmas.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the local authority has to pay the landlord. It is such a rigmarole it takes three or four months to get a family housed. I appeal to the Minister to get rid of that scheme and bring forward an ordinary long-term lease or even a short-term lease if a landlord will only rent a property for a couple of years. I will talk more when I get another opportunity because there are certain things...

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of all the people who cannot open their doors and employ the people they were previously employing. We have no money for home help for people who are trying to stay living in their homes for as long as possible. People are dying with maggots in nursing homes and there is no investigation into what is going on. There is no talk at all about carers. They are left in the wilderness. They...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (17 Jun 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...is that the river was lowered by metres. The road is not in jeopardy and the emergency services can go back and forth to hospitals in Cork and Tralee. The national primary route into Kerry is no longer flooded. I have to thank the Minister of State for agreeing to and giving us the funding to clear the river. Following several years of deputations by me, Councillor Maura Healy-Rae and...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (17 Jun 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...petrol or diesel up to €2 per litre. People in rural Ireland need a reliable way of getting to work. Electric cars are not that at present. There is no place to plug them in and they will not go far enough. People have to travel long journeys to go to work. I appreciate the people who get out in the morning, travel long journeys, do a hard day's work, travel home again and do...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...and the people of Cahersiveen are not happy, so I ask the Minister again to do that. On testing, which Deputy Naughten raised earlier, it is clear that the testing being done is taking too long and there are too many delays. It is well over 20 days before some people get notified. This is not satisfactory. One cannot have efficient contact tracing when it has been going on for that...

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...work for people cocooning and those who are very isolated. It is only now that we realise the value of businesses and employers. I have mentioned several times here that Friday evening is not long coming when someone has a team of men or women to pay. These are the very people who are paying for each and every one of us here. Consider what happens when they stop working. We see now...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...could be the way to go. No one asked for an increase in home help hours more than I did in the previous Dáil. Day after day I asked for it because I know that people really want to spend as long as possible, or even the last days of their lives, in their own homes. I was glad to hear the Taoiseach say that might be the way to go or that he was considering doing that but the fact is...

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (13 May 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...done their theory test, have everything in order and have been waiting for months to do the test. Can anything be done to speed up the driver test for these youngsters who have been waiting so long? They need their cars to go to work. Taxis and how they can be supported has not been mentioned during this pandemic. Can the Minister and the Government do something about taxis? These...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...that all those who have lost loved ones to this deadly disease would like to know and be told the truth. They cannot touch, embrace or talk to their loved ones who are gone forever. This virus was in China long before 20 January. Some of the PPE the Government paid for and went out of its way to thank publicly the Chinese for was given to them by the Italians in early December. I am...

Social Protection (Covid-19): Statements (2 Apr 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ..., east Kerry and even into north-west Cork, as well as down to Kenmare and Sneem. Those people are very far away from Tralee and I am asking the Government to try to set up a centre there. People are asking why it is taking so long to get tested. That is a worry. I had a couple waiting practically ten days before they were called. The other problem is that we are waiting too long for...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (2 Apr 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...in raising the home help service. Those Deputies who were in the last Dáil will recall that day after day, I raised the need for home help services to enable people to stay in their homes for as long as possible. I assure the Minister that anyone in County Kerry who receives home help had to fight to get it. It is not the case that some of those who get this help should not be...

Rent Freeze (Fair Rent) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the tax that they have to pay. The HAP scheme is a disaster. It is purely a means of getting people off the housing list. More supply is the answer. Another problem is that local authorities are taking much too long to turn around the vacant houses. The tenant purchase scheme that was to assist us in doing that is no longer an option for many tenants because 80% that apply to buy...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: On the programme for Government, this Government promised that it would assist people to remain in their homes for as long as possible through home help service provision. However, in Kerry, for a person to get home help another person must die. Why is it that Kerry has been without funding for the provision of home help services since last May? The wife of an elderly man of 92 years of...

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will tell the Minister the truth. Deputy Mattie McGrath called for his resignation a long time ago. I am calling for it now because he does not deserve to be in office as he is a shame and a downright disgrace. He is not listening; he is laughing, grinning and making faces at us. He has no realisation of what he has done to the people in Kerry and the services he is not providing to...