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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: People throughout the country, especially those who attend bingo nights, are worried and concerned about the Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 that will come before the Dáil tonight. These are ordinary, good living people, mostly elderly people and housewives. I am thinking of the 700 or 800 people who go to bingo in Killarney on a Sunday night. They used to go to Conroy Hall...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Bill will be debated tonight.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I appeal to the Government not to hurt people who attend bingo.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: It has hurt people in rural Ireland enough by supporting the actions of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: It should not hurt them any further by damaging bingo.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Save bingo.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----so I ask the Minister to allow the family the dignity to stay in that house-----

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----until things get better again and they could buy back the house again. I am sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I very much regret that the Minister blames the local authorities for failing to build houses. The fact is that the Minister and his Government have retained the four-stage process demanded by the Department. That is slowing down the building of social housing. How many times have we asked the Minister to bring forward the tenant purchase scheme to allow pensioners to buy out the house...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: On the programme for Government, this Government promised that it would assist people to remain in their homes for as long as possible through home help service provision. However, in Kerry, for a person to get home help another person must die. Why is it that Kerry has been without funding for the provision of home help services since last May? The wife of an elderly man of 92 years of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Pharmacy Services (3 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: 406. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had oversight of the selection process for the pharmacy contract for the State-funded primary care centres; if not, if it is a local matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50161/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (3 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: 464. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a group (details supplied) will be included along with the other farmers' representatives in the discussions with the relevant meat factories and retailers; if it will be accepted as part of the taskforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50194/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Custody and Access (3 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: 542. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address a matter regarding supervised visits (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50168/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (3 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: 595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if qualifying applicants for the fuel allowance will be assured that they will continue to receive the payment in 2020 and into the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50282/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes. First, I think we are supposed to disclose any interests, whether in the Chamber or here. For many years, off and on, I have worked for Coillte, as my father before me did. I just wanted to let the committee know that. I gave a lot of my time in forestry for Coillte. I heard Deputy Penrose say there are now many Coillte workers everywhere in Ireland, but there was a time when there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: What is happening in the Department with regard to the felling licences?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Are there enough staff in the Department to deal with the applications?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: The man to whom I referred fears he will be gone before he gets any money out of the area he planted. It would be a good idea to allow farmers to enter into some kind of a deal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Annual Report 2018: Discussion (3 Dec 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank all the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (28 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the recruitment process used to advertise for nurses and care staff in community hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49480/19]