Results 241-260 of 4,961 for speaker:Danny Healy-Rae
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: You may not be aware that the restriction is there for houses built after 2015. They are not allowed to buy them.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (9 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will increase the tax credits for widows/widowers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40373/24]
- Spending of Public Funds by the Government: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: It is a scandal to God what has gone on. First, there was a bicycle shed at €336,000, then a hut for €1.42 million, and now pouches for €9 million while there is a shortage of SNAs and teachers in our schools. A total of €4-€5 million is spent on migration funding. Any amount of millions can be spent on climate action and it still will not change the...
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: The tenant purchase scheme was a great scheme. People got their feet under them and went down the road of purchasing their own home, and the money went back into the coffers and built more houses. Now councils have stopped that; any house built after 2015, they will not even sell it. We were so proud when people used to get rural cottages. It was the same story - when they got their legs...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Social Action Group Rathmore day services have been in operation almost 32 years. They have grown and expanded to a state-of-the-art facility and are often referred to as the gold standard for the type of services provided. However, this year and next the services face substantial financial difficulty, with projections of a €62,000 deficit this year and a €68,000 one next...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Now, if the services are not provided with the necessary costs to keep going, the group will have to seriously consider a reduction in services.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: This is a voluntarily run charitable status organisation-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----and I am asking that the Government, Department of Health and HSE intervene positively here to ensure-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----the service continues-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----as it currently is.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Many businesses have already closed, and many others were waiting and hoping the Government would reduce the VAT to 9%. It did not do that. The Taoiseach talks about the €4,000. What about the people whose rates went up from €20,000 to €80,000 or from €5,000 to €20,000? How will the €4,000 help them? The Government is trying to fool the people...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I was never told that. I am talking about the budget. How many issues is that? There are a lot of problems for the people I am representing. You must write out your rules. I thought I was talking about the budget. What else am I talking about? It is all connected to the budget. There are people interrupting me over here and over there, and the Ceann Comhairle is stuck in me now. What...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Government let them down. It had the opportunity. It has more money spent under Members' noses and eyes on huts and bicycle sheds-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: It ordained them and paid for them.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: At the same time, as regards the OPW, there are so many more rivers. It happened in Bunane this week. They could not go up the road because the Government will not let anyone clear out the river. It has gone-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: There is nothing for it in the budget.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: After about ten years.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Killarney bypass has been waiting for 24 years, and you are talking about-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: You had nothing to do with the ordaining of it anyway - not one bit in the world. It was ten years ago.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: There was no account of you.