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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Industry (9 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: 131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a river (details supplied) has been closed to rod fishermen for over ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41261/19]

Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties - Rates (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Vótáil.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Stamp Duties - Section 126AA Bank Levy (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am opposed to the proposed increase in Financial Resolution No. 4 in respect of non-residential properties, which will affect farmers. The farmers are badly enough off, as was outlined earlier today. We all know that for farmers to continue to exist they must invariably buy a bit of land to increase production and stay in the race. For that reason, I oppose Resolution No. 4. It would...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister will know about rural Ireland very soon.

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not support the increase in the price of cigarettes and tobacco even though I do not smoke myself. It is very hard to place an extra cost on people who have to smoke. There are many elderly people who were smoking before any education was available on the effects of cigarettes and it is impossible for them to give up now. This increase will not encourage them to stop and it is not the...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I need just a second on the issue of hotels. The increase by 4.5% in the VAT rate last year has led to a downturn of at least 20%. The fall in the value of sterling has also adversely affected visitors from the United Kingdom.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will just state that in relation to insurance, there has been no word about the cost of insurance.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: There has also been no recognition of the difficulties faced by hauliers. Moving on to the subject of housing-----

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister himself admitted the problem by stating that there are only half the number of workers-----

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ----- in the construction trade as there were in 2008.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am pleased to get the opportunity to speak on the budget. I got a clear message from 1,000 people on the budget and the economy of Kerry at Limerick racecourse last Sunday evening. It was to ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Madigan, to sign the hare coursing licence on which so many people in the south of the country, especially Kerry, Limerick and parts of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Licensed hauliers feel they are very exposed to a no-deal Brexit. The budget for 2020 should not make the situation worse for the sector. It asks that we do not increase carbon tax or at least that we provide for its offset for licensed hauliers. The sector also asks for measures to be introduced to reduce fuel costs for licensed hauliers by doubling the rebate level allowed under the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: A snail going to Jerusalem would travel faster than the speed at which we are making progress with this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I highlight the lack of vital infrastructure projects in County Kerry. We have been waiting for many years for these projects, despite promises year after year. The village of Kilcummin has been waiting at least 15 years. A project was promised several times but the road to the village has been delayed for at least ten years because we have been told repeatedly that the sewerage scheme...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have been talking about this inside here-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and I am entitled, as a representative of the people of Kerry, to raise this matter.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not apologise to anyone for raising this matter today. Irish Water will state that it is only obliged to bring its existing treatment plants up to an acceptable standard. The company will tell me, others and the local authority that it has no obligation to build new treatment plants. That is where we are. I ask the Tánaiste to talk to Irish Water about that. He is the...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I did not rule out everyone.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Ryan Tubridy is a good operator, as was Gay Byrne before him. If it was not a good programme, it would not have lasted for this long. It has survived the test of time and I have no doubt that it will carry on for a long time to come. The greyhound programme that depicted the greyhound industry in such a bad light was not fair on people who love their dogs, would do nothing wrong to...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Just one second. The programme stated that more than 6,000 greyhounds were unaccounted for, that they had been put down and were treated badly. I can assure the House that I met one dog that was ten years old and one would not know that he was not a six month old pup.