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Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, for trying to rectify the housing situation. I appreciate anyone who is doing their best. However, too much emphasis is on what the private sector will provide in this plan. Local authorities should be given funding to build more social houses. We should build more rural cottages where applicants provide the sites. We should give local...

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward the motion at a very opportune time when we are threatened with outages and exorbitant costs for electricity, energy and fuel such as diesel, petrol and heating oil because of carbon tax and the many other charges that people are not prepared for. Electricity costs are up 19%. Has the Minister of State ever heard the phrase "You cannot get...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a local service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45975/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 845. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason farmers (details supplied) are being penalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46111/21]

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about this very important matter. It affects issues from west Cork to Kerry, Dingle to Cahersiveen, and all the way up the west of Ireland to Donegal. Deputies Collins, Ferris and I met with the former Minister, Deputy Creed, when he was introducing the statutory instrument. He did not listen to us. Gladly, Pat the Cope Gallagher, the Minister's...

Residential Tenancies (Tenants' Rights) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Labour Party. While I do not agree with parts of what it is proposing, I appreciate anyone trying to do anything about housing. I thank the Minister for all the work he has done but I must tell him that there is more to be done to get this off the ground. Regarding what is being proposed, it would not be fair to stop landlords from selling their houses. Surely if they own a...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (20 per cent Provision of Social and Affordable Housing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: If Deputy Michael Healy-Rae has an interest, then I have an interest too, since we are supposed to be brothers. I am very concerned about the housing situation and have become even more so as the days have gone on since the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, put his Bill, which I voted for, through the Dáil. I have serious concerns about this new programme because I think there is only...

Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: While I do not think that changing the name of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement will help, if more staff are employed, properly trained in the role they are supposed to carry out, I believe that will help. We all know what the banks did, including Anglo Irish Bank. I know fellows who cried, grown men, and the fellows in charge of it got away. We all know what Bank of...

Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right. I should also mention that corporate enforcement did not always help people when someone got into trouble and went bankrupt. They did not help the people on the ground who lost their money, maybe sums of €20,000, €60,000, €70,000, €80,000 or €90,000. Instead, it went on the side of the developer or businessman who went broke and helped them...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government is doing nothing about forestry.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: They will not ring you anyway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticultural Industry: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (21 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State and his Department official, Mr. Lucas, for attending this important meeting. There is no doubt about it, and I am not being personal towards either the Minister of State or Deputy Leddin - they are fine people and I have nothing personal against them at all - but it is clear to me they are pulling the strings in government. They ensured Bord na Móna was...

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 ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: These type of vehicles have never been able to get through this tunnel, as either the ceiling of the tunnel needs to be raised in a few places or the floor must be lowered.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: The height needed is 3.8 m, but the present signage indicates a maximum height of 3.5 m.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: It makes common sense to not start the works until the end of November. The men working on the tunnel will be inside the tunnel so the weather will not matter to them. The other issue is that now that the tunnel is going to be closed at that time, the works that should have been done many years ago to raise the roof from 3.5 m in a few places to 3.8 m. must be done urgently. Deputy...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: We have machinery now to cut rock and to do the necessary works, and now is the time to do it-----

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

Danny Healy-Rae: -----but I am asking TII not to start the works until the end of November.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: Councillor Johnny Healy-Rae has tried so many times and there were appeals but I appeal to the Tánaiste to sort it out now.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I was not let in for the transport questions.