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Priority Questions: Budget 2020 (15 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can I ask something?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: They would be blind otherwise.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will we be allowed to continue?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is the Taoiseach going to stop it? Answer the question.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are going to stop it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: Shame on the Taoiseach.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: The cornerstone of the predictive grade system was that the professional judgment of the teacher would be key. Teachers gave their professional opinion on the fairest grade an individual student would achieve if he or she sat the leaving certificate exam but that professional opinion seems to have been questioned by the State Examinations Commission. A full 17% of all grades were reduced....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (10 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who applied to Bus Éireann for a bus ticket to go to secondary school; the number granted and outstanding, respectively, in County Kerry as of 4 September 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23110/20]

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Defence Forces for their massive efforts and work in their peacekeeping duties over the years. They are held in high regard all around the world. The recruitment, retention and remuneration of the members of the Defence Forces have been the subject of extensive public and parliamentary debate over many years. One of the main issues the Defence Forces members continue to face...

Mental Health and Older People: Statements (9 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this important matter this evening. Elderly people have been massively impacted by this virus. All those months they had to isolate or, to use the new word, "cocoon" at home have changed their lives utterly and many will not be the same again. I was hurt recently when the Government suggested elderly people needed to be careful. One was not sure...

Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to support this motion to nullify and rescind the statutory instrument or blank cheque that was given to the Minister for Health last week. I thank the Kerry publicans who came up here today to fight their case, including the O'Callaghan brothers of the Fáilte Hotel in Killarney, Pat the Tatler Jack and the other publicans that left Kerry early this morning and will not be...

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Cancer Screening: Motion [Private Members] (8 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to contribute. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this very important topic to the floor of the Dáil, which gives us a chance to debate this very important issue. Cancer screening is so important and the fact that it was delayed or cancelled for so long means that there are people lining up for services. I understand it is the people who already have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (8 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have almost 140 children who cannot access school transport tickets-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (8 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I would appreciate it if they could get them. All systems are closed down. Surely the Minister is not trying to achieve the 50% reduction on buses by denying children and parents the right to get their tickets as they always have done. Is that what is happening? Will the 50% reduction rule be achieved by not giving children the tickets they have always got? That is not fair or right....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: Sinn Féin voted against the publicans last Thursday.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1021. To ask the Minister for Health if the 'flu vaccine will be made available to all schoolgoing children free of charge; if so, if it will be made available before they return to school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21188/20]

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I must declare that I am a school bus operator. My family have been doing it since 1956. Since the announcement that the capacity of the buses should be reduced to 50% - I heard the Minister of State talking about transport - many children going to national schools and secondary schools cannot get their ticket to go on the bus. There is no answer to any phone call or email. Many...

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: We were supposed to be in the second session.

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I support Deputy Howlin's amendment. However, I have a concern with it as well in that he says it would be up to the publican to demand a court hearing. Why is the venom all being directed to the publican? For all other citizens, the Garda issues a summons and prosecutes. That is the form the law takes with every other offence. I do not see why it should be up to the publican to go to...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will. I am sorry, but I am cross with what is going on and what is being attempted in Dáil Éireann today. I am suggesting that if the crime is so serious and a garda, on the instructions of the Minister, says that the rule is broken in such a fashion, there should be a court organised immediately and the defendant, the publican in this case, should be given a chance to defend...