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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why is the Government still insisting on assessing the entire value of a farm instead of just the dwelling? This is discrimination. It appears that farmers are paying for the fair deal scheme for the rest of the country.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raised the fair deal scheme two weeks ago and referred to the slow rate at which funds were being made available to Cork and Kerry. The Minister denied there was a problem but it was in the newspapers yesterday and the leader of Fianna Fáil also raised it. That is because it is an issue. Hundreds of farmers came here yesterday. Where is the legislation for the fair deal for farmers...

Civil Liability and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: 9 o’clock I am glad to get the opportunity to talk again on the very important matter of insurance. It is such an issue with everyone. People, young and old are angry about the costs of insurance for everything. We know the hoops that younger people, for example, must go through when trying to get a car on the road for the first time. With the costs of insurance for such...

Air Transport Preclearance Agreement: Motion (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the enhancement of the preclearance service for passengers in Dublin Airport and especially in Shannon Airport. It is important to provide this facility for all passengers. Between 1.7 million and 1.9 million people use this facility when they take transatlantic flights across to the United States. I would like to mention something that is a bugbear of mine. I suppose it does...

Air Transport Preclearance Agreement: Motion (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have that. We are developing it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Tánaiste to relay, on behalf of all Members, our gratitude to the people who work in the passport offices. At times, they must deal with customers in a state of distress because of their having to travel in emergencies. Even a person going on holiday may be in a distressed state if he or she finds he or she does not have a passport with which to travel in a day or two. All I...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I also support CE supervisors. It is wrong to suggest they are not employed by the State. The State would be in a desperate position if it were not for the great work these people do in our communities. The Labour Court agreement from 2008 has not been honoured. Now, 11 years later, I ask the Government to honour it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: 277. To ask the Minister for Health his plans and timelines to provide additional funding to increase the number of residential placements for persons with intellectual disabilities (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17239/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the representatives from the ICSA, and Macra na Feirme. I thank them for coming in to recognise and highlight the issues that need to be addressed by Government and the EU. Pressures are being felt by farmers as a result of Brexit with all the talk of whether the UK is coming or going. There is so much indecision and so much that is unknown, that it is hurting and reflecting in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: We must keep highlighting-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: What can we do to help the suckler farmer because-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: We must listen to Patrick Kent and the people from Macra na Feirme. They know the people affected and so do I but it appears that many Members in the Chamber - and I am passing no reflection on the Chairman - do not have an eye open or have a clue what is happening, nor do they care. It is time they woke up. They will get their answers when they call to the doors because the people have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Let every fellow look after his own place. I will talk about Kerry and others can talk about the other places. I will not butt into their places but I will not apologise for making the case for the people of Kerry because they are in a desperate state at present.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Chairman. I am glad to get this opportunity, and I would like to welcome Mr. Corley and the meat industry representatives. When I look across at him, I immediately think of the thousands of people who attended the beef plan meetings all around Kerry and west Cork, because I attended each and every one of them as well. I only wish that a lot of them were looking in today to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: For how much longer will farmers take this? For how much longer do the witnesses think they will get cheap cattle in? They are losing data that would tell them when cattle are reaching certain times so that they could bring them out of the feedlots. I do not know at what point the cattle are being taken to the factories. This is what the factories are doing. They are bringing out the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have another question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is another question. The witnesses talk a lot about the UK and Brexit. It is time the UK made its mind up as to whether it is coming or going but the price is already lower for animals and beef we are exporting to the UK. What is the reason for that? I have already asked this question in this forum. The other thing is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Farmers are being told one day that the factories do not want black Limousin cattle but rather that they want red Limousin cattle. They are being told that they want white Charolais but not brown or grey Charolais. What is the difference in the bloody meat when the carcase is taken off them? That is why the farmer is being blackguarded and driven down to the ground. However, he will not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (11 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review and increase the amount permitted by SUSI for a student applicant's earning from holiday employment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17078/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (11 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: 160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when persons (details supplied) will receive broadband; if they will be included in this phase of the roll out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17063/19]