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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is nothing as important, a Cheann Comhairle, as those little children.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: If we are worth our salt working in here, then we must raise it and we have to get answers. This has been going on for two or three years now and it has gone on long enough.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is not working.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: They have the beds but they do not have the money. There is an issue. They are not getting the money. Some of these are waiting two years or more.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Who did the Government give it to?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: We want it made public as to who got the money.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am calling for an open and frank debate in this House on the treatment of children with spina bifida and scoliosis. Every night on the television news we see these children crying. Parents, meanwhile, are demented with worry. These operations can be done in the UK if there is money for them. The Taoiseach said he gave €5 million to someone last week when he was questioned by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: That would suit the Government fine.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Of course it does.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Bodies (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 247. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the delay in the appointment of members to a board (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6156/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Bodies (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 248. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the appointment of new members to a board (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6179/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 783. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider his decision for to exclude section 39 disability service providers (details supplied) from the once-off bonus payment for front-line healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6635/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 784. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the decision to exclude practice nurses (details supplied) from the once-off bonus payment for frontline healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6638/22]

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: What we are asking for is very minimal. These are hard-working people who pay their taxes. They are contributing to us in this Chamber and to services, whether those are carers, pensions or whatever. They are contributing like everyone else and they do not have surety of work. They are dependent on the weather as to whether they can go out to fish. We are asking the Minister to double...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: When I heard Deputy Mac Lochlainn reading out what the Minister said when he was over here in opposition, I could not understand how the Minister is over there in government at all, contesting one little line that we want to change. The purpose of us asking to use the words "beyond a reasonable doubt" is to provide fairness and equality for fishermen and women under the law and the...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, add my voice to the call that the wording used should be "beyond reasonable doubt" rather than "on the balance of probability". This is a new departure from fair play. Any criminal brought before any court enjoys the presumption of innocence until found guilty. What is suggested in the wording is wrong. It may seem small to argue about the wording but it is important to people...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a lot of fanfare and much hay is being made about this proposal to allow a hectare of native woodland to be planted without needing to get planning permission. Farmers have been planting broadleaf trees in corners of fields and around houses for shelter and continue to do so. Is the Minister telling me that what they were doing was wrong? He is suggesting that they do not have to...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak. I will vote for anything that will help the forestry sector, whether it is felling licences, planning licences or the building of roads. No farmer has any problem with planting small plantations of broadleaf. Farmers did not have to be told by the Green Party, or by anyone else for that matter, to do so. That has been happening over the years in...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: One issue is tied into the other. I have almost said what I want to say. I will again say to the Minister that most confidence in the forestry sector has gone and what is left is evaporating as the days go by. We have gone from 2018 to 2019, 2020 and 2021 and here we are in 2022. We are talking about nearly five years and we are still in trouble with it.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to talk about our youngsters growing up and their future. We are educating children and pupils to the highest standard in our universities. I also welcome the Munster Technological University in Tralee, which is a big advantage. We needed for so long and we are glad to have it since the beginning of last year. It is important for the vibrancy of Tralee...