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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will have something to say to Deputy Bacik as well.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: She was the person who said she would build 1 million homes. Now she is proposing adding another bicycle shed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Since when did she become McAlpine?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: She wants a bicycle shed outside the door while people in Kerry are suffering trying to keep going.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is the truth.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Ivana McAlpine.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: You do not show it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many businesses and people in Killarney and elsewhere in Kerry are very disappointed that VAT was not reduced in the budget. The failure to do this has traumatised a lot of people. Indeed, in College Street, Killarney, last Saturday morning, a man came over to the door of my car in the pouring rain to highlight his disappointment. Many businesses were clinging on and hoping they would get...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are on the back foot all the time trying to get funding for roads. The Killarney bypass has been going on for over 24 years. I am asking the Taoiseach to put money into this next year. People are parked in their cars on all the roads into Killarney. The Blackwater Bridge Road from Blackwater Bridge to Sneem was built for horses and carts 200 years ago. What was done? A cycleway was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (8 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39627/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Pensions (8 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 487. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter regarding the pensions of retired HSE mental health nurses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39623/24]

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Not for bicycle sheds, I hope.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many people in County Kerry are very disappointed by the Government's failure to reduce the VAT rate from 13.5% to 9%. Many businesses have closed already, and many more will close before Christmas, I am sorry to say, because they were hoping, and hanging on, to see would this happen, but the Government failed them. Everyone is being hurt by the increase in carbon tax. Everyone who has...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity. I am aware I only have a little time. Home ownership is one of the biggest issues in Kerry for young people who want to buy or build their own home. The building option is nearly impossible because of planning permission. Home ownership is unattainable because of the cost of houses. It is hard for a young fella or a young couple - a...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Capital Acquisitions Tax (1 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I honestly say they would not know the cow from the bull outside in the field.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Capital Acquisitions Tax (1 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: About the cow and the bull?

Financial Resolution No. 3: Capital Acquisitions Tax (1 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: They do not know a cow from a bull.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Capital Acquisitions Tax (1 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: With the indulgence of the Ceann Comhairle, I want to register my opposition to the €1 tax on the cigarettes.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Capital Acquisitions Tax (1 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I just want to say that it has to be remembered that 52% of mental health patients and people with mental health issues smoke. I welcome this increase in the limits or caps for inheritance tax. Deputy Paul Murphy complains about farmers or others getting the benefit of this. Going back in time, if you were the son or daughter who inherited a farm, you were considered to be made for...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Government for the increases in social welfare, which mean a lot to people who are on the breadline, such as pensioners, people with disabilities and so on. However, the word from Kerry, which I represent, is that many people in the tourism sector are very disappointed that the VAT rate was not reduced to 9%. Many providers in the nooks and corners in all the different places of...