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Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----there is no way that a Minister of State can stand up inside here and use information that they would have got-----

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: No, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I have to defend my colleague-----

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----because you cannot have a situation where a person would use private information-----

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: But I have to-----

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister of State cannot use that private information.

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Recently, we had a meeting in County Kerry regarding the River Cashen. I want to explain why the meeting was held. It was held because of the proposed cessation of the national arterial drainage programme, the programme that engages the OPW to maintain waterways and sluice gates and prevent land from flooding. If we do what we want to do with the River Cashen, thousands of acres of fertile...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Sure ye are all the one.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I appreciate that the Minister is talking sense and calling them empty homes, not voids. It is nice to hear a person telling the truth as it is. I stand over the statement, because it is a fact, that if a house received funding since 2014, it cannot receive funding a second time. I would like the Minister to examine the empty house scheme and ask that local authorities are adequately...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I want to raise the voids scheme, but I would rather have the name changed to what it is, namely, the empty houses scheme. When we talk about voids in local authorities, I would rather call them what they are: empty local authority houses. I want to highlight the fact that a local authority only gets €11,000 to do up a house, no matter what condition it is in, if it is vacant....

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I have been providing accommodation for the past 35 years and I am glad to have been involved in it. I voted against ending the eviction ban. I believe the statistics in County Kerry prove I did the right thing in not agreeing with the Government. The people who come to my clinic say I did the right thing quite simply because of what has happened since in County Kerry. The county has been...

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: This is the Social Democrats that comes in here and lectures us about housing. They are objecting to thousands of homes. The people who were stopped from having those homes would have a house today. Then the Social Democrats come in here to talk about housing.

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Just one second. This whole morning is the biggest act of hypocrisy that has ever been seen on the floor of Dáil Éireann.

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is a disgrace.

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Do something real and stop objecting to people building homes for God's sake and grow up a small bit.

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is absolutely ridiculous and shame on them.

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Objecting to people building houses and then coming in here to speak about it.

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Absolute insanity

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Then they tell people they are worried about people having houses.

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Facts.