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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.

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

Michael Healy-Rae: Facts. What was said were facts. Absolute facts.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance if serious consideration will be given to the pre-Budget submission of having 0% VAT applied to sunscreen (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26685/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm that residential developers still have to pay Irish Water up front and that the recent announcements by the Government will not give any immediate relief to developers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26475/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of taxpayers' money that has been spent on coming up with a new name for An Bord Pleanála; the rationale behind it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26648/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 158. To ask the Minister for Health if additional investment will be made for cancer services so that everyone can access timely treatments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26684/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Parking Provision (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 198. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will look at abolishing the car parking rates for cancer patients in all HSE and local authority car parks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26686/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26683/23]