Results 241-260 of 850 for long speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Preparations for the European Parliament Elections 2019: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...to make his opening statement and then I will go to the members. First of all, I am obligated to remind members and Mr. Temple-Smithson of the rules of privilege. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the House or an official either by name or in such a way as to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Preparations for the European Parliament Elections 2019: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am being completely independent about the matter. It is wrong for any group of people not to put a candidate in the field. It was different for the politicians of all persuasions long ago, when resources were limited and the tools at people's fingertips were not even a fraction of those that are available today. People went out and made the effort. They went out on bicycles to canvass....

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...McEntee, has always been very forthcoming in attending meetings of the committee that I chair and engaging with its members. We have brought in many people to give evidence and answer questions over a very long period since the original vote on Brexit. We are doing our part and everybody in this Dáil, whether they are in opposition or in government, has a very important role to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (16 Oct 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 406. To ask the Minister for Health if an illness (details supplied) will be listed in the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41998/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: It has been going on for a long time now.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...to the North to do it. The increase in SNA posts up to 950 in 2019 is very welcome, as is the increase in the new apprentice programme by another 10%, with over 1,200 additional crafts and "earn as you learn" places. I believed all along that the Government would increase social welfare payments. People living on very low incomes need this increase and the restoration of the...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...proposed. We cannot take young people and wrap them up in cotton wool and say they will never see something that we do not want them to see. Every young person today has a mobile phone. It is no longer a communications instrument for making phonecalls. It is their connection to the outside world. It is their newsfeed. There is advertising on mobile phones and they can see everything...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Task Force Report on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and Doing Less More Efficiently: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...Gerard Craughwell. I remind members to ensure that their mobile phones are switched off. This is important as it causes interference with the broadcasting service. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the House or an official either by name or in such a way as to...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: If one lives long enough, a Cheann Comhairle, one will get to see everything. A short number of years ago, the Labour Party abolished 80 town councils bald-headed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...untimely passing. He was a young man and had much living and work left to do. He was busy in his ambassadorial role, in which he excelled. We are genuinely sorry. I made friends with him over a long period and met him on many occasions. We had many interesting debates and exchanges and I am sorry at his passing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...others, we appreciate the role played by ambassadors and the engagement they have with the committee. We believe it to be very important and we take it very seriously. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the House or an official either by name or in such a way as...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle is a politician. If any one of us could aspire to be in politics as long as he has been we would be fairly good. It is very difficult to formulate and put forward a question if one is continuously interrupted. If I am left alone I will be fine but if I am continuously stopped I will not be.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 403. To ask the Minister for Health if a drug (details supplied) will be added to the long-term illness card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26765/18]

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...that have been raised during these debates, which have gone on but rightly so? What the Minister is hoping to do will change things forever in rural Ireland which has been hit hard enough for long enough. Each person can speak only for their own area. I have seen the accidents that have happened over the years and have known the cause of many of them. In many cases the truth of what...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...Will the Minister, as the Minister with responsibility for safety on our roads, use his power to ensure that the local authorities will go back cutting hedges and to the basic work they used to do long ago when we had section men who went out every day? They were proud of keeping their sections of road clear of water and keeping the hedges cut. This work has been neglected and is causing...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...carrying out the tests in Kerry, but unfortunately they are not being given the resources to allow them to carry out tests in a reasonable length of time and that is why people have to wait for too long. What the Minister is telling these people who need to travel, whether it is going to college to further their education, get on in life and get their leg up on the ladder or whether it...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...of such a thing. He thought it was something from outer space. It had to be explained to him. I hope he has learned what it is in the meantime because many people in rural Ireland lived in them very happily for a long time. Thanks be to God they were not relying on the Taoiseach to provide them. He would not have been able to do so because he did not know what they were. I want to...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I can only speak on my own behalf. I made valid points throughout the debate, and it is only right, fair and proper that the Minister should be given the opportunity to reply. He has listened for long enough to what others had to say.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Multi-Annual Financial Framework after 2020: European Commission (12 Jun 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...financial framework after 2020, and I welcome and thank Ms Jennifer Brown and Mr. Gerry Kiely, on behalf of the European Commission, for being with us today. I commence by reminding members of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that members should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official by name or in such a way as to...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...that bothers me greatly is experience. It is the one thing in life that one cannot buy. No matter what one's job or role is or what function one performs in life, any person who is at something longer than somebody else and who has gone through life's trials and tribulations for a longer time than someone else, will have to know more than the other person. When we talk about putting lay...