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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (8 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the penalisation of students who received the pandemic unemployment payment when applying for the SUSI grant (details supplied) will be examined and addressed. [37068/21]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too want clarification or to be assured by the Minister that what we are doing tonight will allow planning permission to be extended for people who are building their own homes, who fully intended doing so in the past 12 months or so, and then were refused funds by the banks or lending institutions because one or other person in a couple, or both, were on the pandemic unemployment payment....

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: There was a lot of merit in the Minister's first amendment. There are many good points in the Bill but lumping the proposal under discussion into the Bill is like putting the fox in with the hens. It is not compatible at all and it is not fair. A few weeks ago, we had a Bill here decrying the bulk-buying of homes in estates by entities and the outbidding of young people, including young...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a need for support for businesses that may not be closed but do not have as much business as they had heretofore. County Kerry predominantly relies on tourism. Suppliers of fish and meat that were supplying hotels, restaurants and small hostelry businesses have not been able to command as much business as they could previously. They are very worried that they will have to shed...

CervicalCheck Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Acting Chairperson for the opportunity to speak on this very sad saga and on the desperate treatment of so many of our fine women. I think of poor Emma Mhic Mhathúna, who lived in Dingle in our county for a while. My sympathy goes out to her family and to the families of all the other women who lost their lives because of incorrect diagnoses. Emma was a witty and charming...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I want to sympathise with the families of two young boys who were killed in our county last night. My thoughts go out to the parents, sisters, brothers and families that have been left behind. Their lives will never again be the same. May God give them the strength to carry on and continue with their lives in the best way that they can. It reminds us of what true loss is. While we...

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: Rural Ireland is being left behind and I do not want any more post offices closed. I applaud the Regional Group for bring forward this motion as we did previously. We are letting what we have go. It is way easier to keep something than to let it go and try to bring it back again. This is what will happen to post offices.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (6 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of fishing restrictions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36117/21]

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am worried about the CPO aspect of the legislation. It is proposed that "other land" could be acquired by CPO. There is a big problem in Dublin and there are also problems in Kerry but they are different problems that can be sorted out differently. The Minister is talking about populations over 30,000 whereas I am talking about villages with populations of 1,000 or 2,500. They also need...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am asking the Minister to fund the local authorities so they can purchase sites around local villages and towns. Our land is exhausted at the moment. We have very little land left in most of the rural towns and villages, including Currow, Scartaglen, Rathmore, Gneeveguilla and all of those places. There is no land. I am asking the Minister to fund the local authorities so they can...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: The costs are going up all the time. That is what is happening. We must realise this and do something to help those people.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this important topic. Many Deputies have done a great deal of talking and it is time for action. I appreciate that the Minister is doing his best in the position he now holds and I have confidence that he will continue trying to do that. We disagree about certain matters. I am worried that, down the line, this legislation will erode the powers...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak on behalf of the people of Kerry. The Government and the Minister are behind the curve again with this Bill to legalise outdoors drinking. I welcome that but the Government was wrong and not at the races when it advised people to drink outside when there was no law to ensure it was legal. I submitted a parliamentary question last October asking...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: Before long, all the country will land outside the gates of Leinster House and this great centre here.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government has the people totally and absolutely blaggarded. It has led them up and down the garden path. Who does the Taoiseach think he is codding?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: So you are blaming indoor hospitality for the whole thing. Is that what the Government is doing?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: What agenda has Tony Holohan? What has he got against-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many businesses will never again reopen. That is what the Government is ensuring.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: People all over the country are outraged by the Government's decision not to reopen the indoor hospitality sector and the insistence that people will have to be vaccinated before they can go into those settings. What is so different about pubs and small restaurants in the Twenty-six Counties compared with the rest of the world? They are open in the Six Counties. We seem to have more...

Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Jun 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Bríd Smith for bringing forward this very important Bill. As matters stand, pensioners have no rights to be included in negotiations. That is wrong. We need to ensure that people have an adequate and a fair pension when they reach 65 years of age. This has not been happening and pensioners have not had a voice. We thank the former ESB workers who gave valuable...