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Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for giving us an opportunity to talk about childcare services. Many childcare workers have contacted me in recent weeks pleading that we ask the Government to do something about their pay and conditions because they are not being properly looked after. That is the truth of it. Providers are under pressure as well, as are parents. Parents are being asked to pay more...

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak. The Minister got these powers when there was an exceptional need and we all accepted there was a need at that time. We extended them in the middle of the summer although I was against doing that at the time. However, it looked like that was going to be the one and only extension but here is the Minister again, barefaced and looking for another...

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I doubt that they are talking at all, that is the honest truth.

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: We will go again and we will tell them the very same and more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have some questions for Mr. Foley. Can he justify the reason the cost of electricity has gone up by so much this year? Will the increases continue? Is the reason for the increase that gas-fired generators are very expensive to run and maintain?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: Would we have been better off economically and financially, especially elderly people trying to heat their homes, if we had continued using Bord na Móna plants in the midlands? Costs seem to have gone up since those places were closed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are in a very uncertain position now. As Ms MacEvilly said, gas prices are very hefty and we are paying through the nose for gas. What Members of the Oireachtas and the Government need to keep in mind is that people will not be able to pay as we go on. There is an old saying, "You can't get blood out of a turnip." People cannot pay if they do not have it. They are being put to the pin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Professor McMullin for his input today. He will agree that offshore wind energy is at least ten years away. In the meantime, and especially this winter, it appears we have an energy shortage and people may be cold in their homes as they may have no option other than electricity. Does Professor McMullin agree there is an urgent need for Shannon LNG to get off the ground and import...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: It is becoming very clear that the Taoiseach and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine are now looking for cow numbers to be reduced. This is at a time Brazil is cutting down rainforests to increase its cow numbers and despite the fact farmers here were advised to increased production only two short years ago. They were told the Chinese would drink a lot of milk. We all know...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: Clearly, farmers have invested a lot of time and money in their herds and in environmental protection. Why are they being treated like this? Irish farmers, and all the people of Ireland, are under the same sky as other countries. Why are farmers here being treated like this after all they have spent, having been advised to do so. What is the Government at?

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

Danny Healy-Rae: We are all under the same sky.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 362. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding medical card cover (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47338/21]

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...