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Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is there no Irishman?

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will support Deputy Fitzmaurice's amendment, which seeks to provide that eight weeks would be a sufficient period in which a decision on a felling licence could be made. That is laudable and deserves praise. I do not know if that includes a stipulation that five weeks should be allowed for the appellant to make the appeal or a submission. That should be part of it as well in the same way...

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to discuss this very important topic. I know only too well what has gone on with forestry in the past two years. It is the total height of blackguarding. I have raised this issue several times on the Order of Business and at every chance I got over the past couple of years. I could see what is happening coming. We are very near to a situation where the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is the first question each one of them is asked.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is not the second.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why does the Taoiseach hate pubs?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: They hate the pubs.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: Last Monday, rural publicans were allowed to open their doors for the first time in six months. It is good to see the doors open and a bit of life in rural villages such as Gneeveguilla, Brosna, Sneem and Fieries which were totally desolated and dead for six months. I am getting very worried, however, because the first question people are asked when contacted by the contact tracers is...

Child Poverty: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Gannon and the Social Democrats for tabling this important motion. It gives us an opportunity to discuss this issue. Low- and medium-income families are under savage financial pressure. The cost of providing a home, by renting or otherwise, and putting food on the table is a real problem for many families. I wish to appeal to community welfare officers, who are doing very...

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 318 of 2020): Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin. I will support its motion because there is no question but that this is absolutely ridiculous. It is like putting the cart before the horse. If the system involved people being brought to court and being fined or given penalty points at that stage, that would be fine. This is not the case under this system. The Taoiseach has signed a statutory instrument and, if...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is in Dublin what we do not have down the country.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have put in a number of amendments and we want to debate them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and maybe coronavirus as well. Will the Taoiseach look at it and talk to HIQA? If it was good enough all the time since March, how is it not fit for purpose now all of a sudden?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: In that case, in relation to the families with children with physical and or mental disabilities, where the Taoiseach cannot provide the service, could he give them financial help so that they themselves could hire somebody because they cannot continue under the pressure they are experiencing at present? The district hospital and the Columbanus Home in Killarney are on the same campus. We...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to start off by registering my concern at the closure of beds in Killarney Community Hospital. Its capacity has gone from 38 beds to 23 beds, a loss of 15 beds. Bed numbers at St. Columbanus public nursing home have dropped from 92 to 65, a loss of 27 beds, including bed losses on the Fuschia ward which caters for patients with dementia. These are savage cuts. A total of 42 beds...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Travel Insurance (29 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 410. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if clarification will be provided to persons (details supplied) due to travel to a country which has now been removed from the Green list in view of the fact they are unsure if they are covered by their travel insurance to travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26306/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to ensure additional school buses are put on in many rural areas in County Kerry and nationwide for secondary school students (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26490/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (29 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 760. To ask the Minister for Health if extra funding will be made available for home help to ensure that elderly persons can remain in their own homes for as long as possible. [27117/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 821. To ask the Minister for Health the funding being made available to a person (details supplied) with disabilities whodoes not have access to their usual outlets or day care as a result of Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26501/20]

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have little to say on this but I support any measures taken to impede criminals, especially drug lords, who are dealing with massive sums of money. I support any means by which they can be apprehended, slowed down and got out of the scene, and I support taking their funds from them. One of the biggest issues we all have to deal with today concerns drugs and the amounts of money...