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Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this important topic. As I have said before, if we are to be relevant at all, we must seek to do our best for vulnerable people, young and old. I will start with the old. Home help hours have been left very short of funding in Kerry. It seems to be a battle to get half an hour or an extra quarter of an hour for older people. I am aware of one...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get this opportunity. There was a big announcement yesterday by the EPA about septic tanks. I believe it is targeting people who want to build single, one-off houses in the country, and to stop them from doing that. I want to talk about Kilcummin. This village has been promised a sewerage scheme since 2004. It was to start in 2008. Money was announced here in 2013 by a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: May I ask a supplementary question?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being put in place to ensure that those who have flights booked but are following guidelines and not travelling will not lose the complete cost of the flights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17554/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to support jobs in the tourism-related sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17608/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17609/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding paying for school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17610/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 166. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to provide support to seasonal workers who were denied the pandemic unemployment payment in view of the fact they were not yet back to work on the week of 6 to 13 March 2020 and in further view of the fact many of their stamps have now run out and they are unable to get any other payment; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 167. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to provide supports to the workers aged 66 years of age and over that were not entitled to the pandemic unemployment payment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17607/20]

Early Years Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin, in particular Deputy Funchion, for giving us the opportunity to discuss this important subject. As we all know, our children are our future and we must try to promote and protect them at every opportunity we get. I agree fully with some of the comments that have been made. The steep costs accrued by parents for childcare places them in a vulnerable position, one...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (21 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish the Minister of State well in his new portfolio. While I am grateful for the thrust of the scheme, like Deputy Mattie McGrath I am doubtful of it. The banks will be the distributors. I was once told the banks will give a person money if he or she does not need it and if he or she has a good credit rating. If a person needs money, however, the banks will not give it. That is the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Centres (21 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I congratulate the Minister of State on his new appointment. As I have been calling for the reopening of Skellig Michael for some time, I am glad to support Deputy Griffin in his question. The entire area of south Kerry is being adversely affected by the ongoing closure of Skellig Michael. Portmagee, Valentia, Ballinskelligs, Cahersiveen and Waterville greatly depend on this major...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the temporary wage subsidy scheme to include employees who were not employed by a company in January and February 2020. [16685/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will change the rules of the temporary wage subsidy scheme in order that employees who are now on more hours than they were in January or February 2020 will receive the temporary wage subsidy scheme for all hours worked rather than only for the hours they were working before the lockdown. [16686/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the temporary wage subsidy scheme to include employees who were not employed by a company in January and February 2020 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17164/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (21 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an extension will be granted to the existing law on the freezing of rent from 20 July 2020 until at least the end of 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16748/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (21 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 505. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a beef regulator for farmers to ensure they are paid a fair price by the factories. [16684/20]

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: Thank you very much, Acting Chairman, for giving me an opportunity to contribute. I will be very brief. I am very disappointed, hurt and angry at what we are discussing here today. This Bill will put a levy and more charges on farmers and people in rural Ireland. Let us think of all the people who cannot open their doors and employ the people they were previously employing. We have no...

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is giving the Government a free hand.

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister cannot con me. Nothing is going to Kerry.