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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.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: Where are the new planning guidelines?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Tánaiste is the Tánaiste for all the country, not just Dublin. If the public health officials do not understand rural people or rural publicans, the Tánaiste should. Is this another way of routing us out of rural Ireland? It is fairly foolish to think the virus can know whether people are eating their dinner with their pints. Most of the people I represent eat their...

Employment Rights: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Social Democrats for giving us the opportunity to talk about workers. I thank all of the front-line workers who went to work at the height of the pandemic in hospitals and nursing homes. I commend all of those who went to work, including nurses, doctors, staff in canteens who bought food to patients, home helps who visited houses and tried to keep older people going, shop...

Employment Rights: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why do people have to eat a meal to be able to have a pint? It is not right or fair.

Employment Rights: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is doing no good for the coronavirus. Publicans and their workers are being discriminated against.

National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Services Bill 2020: Second Stage (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this very serious matter this evening. As I have stated several times, this proposal claims to be about national oil reserves or whatever but it is about raising carbon taxes and increasing the amount the ordinary punter will have to pay. The ordinary motorist, farmer, haulier and bus operator will have to pay more. All of those sectors will...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have one more question. Will the funding for the sewerage schemes come to Irish Water, which is now responsible for the treatment plants that already are there? I know that Irish Water has responsibility for the Kilcummin scheme. Will the funding for these schemes come to Irish Water or can the Minister of State say how the Government is proposing to fund them?

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am pleased to get the opportunity to ask the Minister of State a few questions. We have read and heard stories that the Germans have applied for massive amounts of money, with the interest rates at practically nil, for infrastructural projects and for any deficiencies they have in their country or economy. They have it done for many weeks. They are ahead of us. It appears to me that...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: Such people need assistance too to give them the wherewithal to open their doors again. We are not being fair on them. I accept I am straying a bit.

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: The fact is that one has to travel 15 miles to get a pint in a rural area because all the rural pubs are not open.

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have just one other point to raise, which is about the banks and mortgages. AIB has deferred the granting of mortgages to couples because one of the parties is on the Covid payment, even if the other person is quite entitled to draw a mortgage but because the application is a joint one AIB is deferring their application. That will nail small builders as a result and it is holding up...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get a short time to talk on behalf of the people we are representing, including small business people, farmers and fishermen. We know the talks that are coming up are critical for all our constituents. I want the Government to spell out a clear message to the people it is dealing with in Europe. The myth is out there that farmers are getting gift cheques in the post. We want...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: On behalf of all of the publicans in rural Ireland, I ask the Taoiseach to give them the green light to open next Monday. They have waited for 17 or 18 weeks. People living in rural valleys, glens and highways do not have the wherewithal to go to bigger towns where they have to have a meal. They do not have the time or funding to do so. People used to go to their local pub for a couple of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the number of teachers in primary schools for the 2020-21 school year will not be reduced in view of the fact this is not the time to reduce teachers due to social distancing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16153/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (14 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being taken to ensure the driver theory test backlog caused by Covid-19 is cleared quickly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15492/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (14 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver tests for cars will resume; the measures being put in place to deal with the backlog of those waiting for tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15496/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 302. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter relating to the temporary wage subsidy scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15249/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (14 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 330. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW will provide an embankment at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15090/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: 574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a roadmap will be provided regarding the reopening of all schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15092/20]