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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right, that is grand. I will keep going. Pillar 1 and pillar 2 of the CAP have to be retained in order to keep farmers going. We have an awful problem. The Minister said there are 133,000 farmers in the country. How many will there be next year or the year after? Many young, would-be farmers cannot see themselves continuing the slavery and racket that their parents went through to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and through the hills and glens of Kerry cannot live on fresh air. They need to get properly recompensed for the Trojan work they do, in spite of all the adversity. I ask the Minister to answer on the important points I have raised. We need more time to discuss them, but I thank the Minister for coming in today. I would appreciate whatever answers he can give me.

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about this matter here again this evening. It is a terrible situation. This war really needs to end. I do not know how we can influence that happening, but we need to send a strong message from this Parliament. We are a very small country. We cannot do anything physically to stop or prevent the war, but we need to send a strong message that we do...

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to welcome Shane's family, Jim and Lucia and their girls. I am sorry they had to go through so much to get recognition for what happened on that fateful night. I commiserate with them on the loss of their son and thank them for doing so much to try to protect his name and to ensure he got the proper recognition he and they deserve. I thank the Minister...

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I oppose it.

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to oppose this proposal by Deputy Coppinger. She said she was amazed that anyone would stand up and talk against this proposal. I have to tell you, a Cheann Comhairle, that from every corner of Kerry, people have rung and sent emails and all kinds of messages to ensure that we stop this at the start. All of us living in rural parts of Ireland know the...

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am calling a vote now.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a driving test application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27131/25]

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to say a few words about the mayhem that is taking place, in our time, in another country. I know that Ireland can do very little but we need to stand up and be counted. What is happening is barbaric. We see children, old people and women being starved. People are being starved in this day and age. In case someone does not know about it, I know what...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Michael Collins and his group for giving us the chance to talk about this worthy motion this morning. I support everything that has been said. It should be every politician's ambition to allow elderly people to stay and be seen after in their own homes for as long as possible. That is not happening in Kerry. At the present time, you can qualify to get home help or a home...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right. I appeal to the Ministers to see after the elderly people because they brought us to where we are. They fought to ensure that Ireland was a better place. They did their best. We must see after them but we are not doing it.

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this most important matter. First, I welcome Cara and her dad here again today. It is very sad that they have to come here again after being here so many times before. This is still a desperate situation where young families and young parents, when they find that their child is someway not performing to their liking and want to get them assessed,...

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raised this matter by way of question to the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, about a week ago and I am still very concerned about it. Today, I have six new people who are looking to get their tests brought forward. Two of them will not get their tests for seven months. This is what they have been told. I will give an example. One of them is a young fella from Cahersiveen who can do...

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is an emergency. I am asking the Government to do something, please. This happened last year-----

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and the summer holidays will take a lot of the testers away and the test wait time will get longer.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Schemes (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for his response. I ask him to give me a clear understanding as to whether farmers who have lands in Lyracrumpane, Glencar, Cahirsiveen, Kilcummin, Gneevgullia, Scartaglin and all those places can cut turf where they have parcels of peat? That is a straight question and I want a straight answer to it. Farmers are very concerned about the time it will take to get...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Schemes (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Do farmers have to leave out the patch where they are cutting turf?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Schemes (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to discuss the implication of the new good agricultural and environmental condition of land rules, GAEC 2. Farmers in many parts of County Kerry will be affected. Farmers have been advised that they must recognise these new rules and regulations as part of applying for their basic income support scheme, BISS, payments and other CAP payments on 15 May, which is tomorrow. That is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I congratulate Deputy Moynihan on becoming Chair of the agriculture committee. We are actually neighbours at the county bounds. My father and the Cathaoirleach's father were special friends all their lives. I wish the Cathaoirleach the best of luck with this committee. He is well able for it. I am glad to be a member this time. The last two times, I had to wait until the end of committee...

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak about the provision of housing and affordable houses. I do not know how there is so much talk about affordable houses because no house is affordable now with the cost of materials, the cost of labour and the shortage of labour. I must speak about the number of vacant houses around the county of Kerry in towns and villages and between villages. Take...