Results 20,761-20,780 of 23,601 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Further Education and Training: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: Some people are still waiting for their grants and people are worried about whether they will have to leave their college courses. I ask the Minister of State to do something about that.

Further Education and Training: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: Hear, hear.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: I sincerely thank the Technical Group for affording me the time in which to contribute to the debate on this extremely important legislation. I had a very close friend who got up each morning at approximately 7 a.m. and who used to use just a single match to light his first cigarette. He would still be smoking when he was going to bed at night and he would not have used a second match...

Order of Business (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: I wish the Ceann Comhairle every good luck for the new year.

Order of Business (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: He can be assured of it. The high cost of private health insurance is driving more and more families to abandon their policies and let them run out. They then must rely on the already struggling public health service. I raise this very important matter in the context of the health (private patient charges) Bill.

Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: Without Garda stations.

Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: Well said.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding property tax in respect of a building (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57802/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Finance if persons who are in arrears with their mortgage and having extreme difficulty in paying their mortgage, are faced with the dilemma of having a demand for the new property tax to be paid or to make a payment on their mortgage and there is absolutely no surplus cash available, the mechanisms that will be in place for special and needy cases such as this; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that all local authorities must now make an allowance in their estimates to pay the property tax on local authority houses and that this will put a further burden on the rate payers if the moneys have to be paid and it will result in services being cut; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58050/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duties (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the increase in excise duty on beer, spirits and wine; if he has any plans to re-think the excise duties before the Finance Bill comes into law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1262/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Promissory Notes (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Finance if persons can look forward to a deal being struck on the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation promissory notes being completed before the summer of 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1270/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the recapitalisation of Ireland's remaining banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1271/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for Student Universal Support Ireland grants that are still awaiting processing from County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1074/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the figure as of 1 January 2013, on the number of students still waiting for their grants to be processed; if there are proposals to undertake an external review of Student Universal Supplement Ireland to ensure that this type of situation will never again occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1232/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Kerry has been refused grant aid to rectify health and safety issues in the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58051/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in processing a post graduate student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58135/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding home tuition in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1713/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the centralised buying of goods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1266/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Emigration Data (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding emigration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1263/13]