Results 20,441-20,460 of 23,611 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae
- Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: I will be very kind to the Minister but at the same time I must make this point, and I know he cannot disagree with me for making it. If a Deputy wants to tackle the Minister for Health on an issue by tabling a parliamentary question, he or she receives the response that the Minister has referred the matter to the HSE. It is maddening and the Minister would agree if he were on this side of...
- Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about two issues. The housing adaptation grants for people with disabilities, the mobility aids for housing grants and housing aid for older people were announced in recent days. Last year, County Kerry received €3.2 million. This year, we will receive €1.4 million, a reduction of more than 50%. Not only will this hurt people who are disabled,...
- Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: The housing Bill.
- Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: I just want the Taoiseach to comment on the matter. The Government is hurting two sectors of society by cutting the grants. Some €1.4 million this year after €3.2 million last year represents a significant cut. The other promised legislation relates to young nurses. As the Taoiseach knows, the Minister for Health introduced his new programme, under which he wants new nurses...
- Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: The welfare of people is being hurt.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Regulations (6 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the burning of the land until 31 March in view of the fact that this year was extremely wet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11788/13]
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government stated he would get the media.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: What?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: I did not say I was going to get them.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: Accept away.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: If the Minister lifted the guillotine he would be fine.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister should tell the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government that I have a letter on this topic from a man whose wife died because of radon in his house. I am sorry for interrupting but it is very emotional issue when someone dies in a house and the Department does not seem to understand that.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: I want to clarify a matter for the Minister. He stated he was unsure about what I had said. I said there is no difference between a home affected by pyrite and one affected by radon.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: I have but if I do not use the opportunity now to speak about this I will not be able to do so because the Government has imposed a guillotine. I will use the opportunity. We cannot be stopped because there is a race to the bottom as quick as we can go. We must get in our say because we will not get one later. There will be a vote and that will be the end of it. I wish to stress my...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: I could give the Minister a lift down to Kerry.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: Yes, but this point must be made. The Minister is a reasonable and fair man. My point is sound and solid. The houses in question are not being exempted because they are not located in Dublin, Cork or Limerick. It is unfair. Someone's family member might have died because of radon - I have experience of this - yet that person is now being asked to pay a property tax. Such people can only...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: Deputy Ryan voted for the guillotine.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: Deputy Ryan voted for it and now he is crying about it.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: He is a disgrace.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: Vote for something and then complain about it.