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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Turf Cutting (23 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when compensation will be paid to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58344/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (23 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter concerning bereaved State examinations candidates (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58203/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58358/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (23 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 176. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58277/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (23 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of bovine animals aged greater than 36 months that were sold at livestock marts in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58176/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: Before I make my contribution, I will place on the record my involvement in certain aspects of what I am going to discuss, that is, farming and my provision of accommodation of many different types, be it to students or the local authority. When I speak, however, I do so on behalf of my constituents, the witnesses' organisations, members of their organisations who contact me daily regarding...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: Could I have just two seconds please, Chair? When they sell their properties there is not a hope that they will go back into the rental market again. The statistics are frightening. I am fearful of a future without a balance. I want the balance to be that the local authorities would provide the vast majority of housing, if they are able to get their act together and do their job, but if...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will finish, but the last word I want to say is that I appreciate each of the witnesses who are here tonight. I looked at the line-up before they came in and each one of them brings real expertise in their positions and in their organisations. I thank them for being here and for the efforts they make on behalf of their organisations. Going on some of the contributions I heard here this...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: First, I warmly welcome the witnesses. I appreciate their time, their experience in their fields and I thank them for their representation not just now but particularly during the pandemic. I come from the tourism capital of the world, that is County Kerry, and everybody knows and acknowledges we do tourism better than anywhere else, not just in Ireland but throughout Europe and the whole...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am sorry, Chairperson, but I just wanted to make my point that I am here to support the people who need support. Just because one is in an office in a big building or building that looks good from the outside does not always mean it is good trying to balance the books. Could those who are trying to squeeze more out of people think about these things? If they were at it themselves, they...

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin sincerely for bringing this motion before the Dáil. It is very important work. I want to declare an interest in the provision of a lot of different types of accommodation. I want to speak of the example of the town of Kenmare. People cannot get planning for anything in Kenmare. We have inadequate services there so we cannot build anything now or for the...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I acknowledge the increases in the budget. There are certain elements of it that are most welcome. However, the one thing of which we must be very mindful is the ever-increasing rate of inflation. In terms of what €100 will do in terms of spending power, we are not very far away from a bag of coal costing €50. In many cases, it is already over €40. Everything is so...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for her indulgence. In the name of God and holy sense, will the Taoiseach look at what the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is proposing to do in January? He says that he will not sign the derogation with regard to farmyard burning and that farmers will not be able to burn gorse and wood material, clippings and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----on a yearly basis. This has been the case for many years. It is going to detrimentally affect family farms. The Minister's answer is that the farmers should mulch it. A mulcher needs diesel or petrol. I ask the Taoiseach to please look at this. How Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael backbenchers could support this is beyond me.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is scrub and brush that needs to be burned.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: There was a derogation-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: Do not be trying to make fun of me.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: This is a derogation. The Taoiseach should know that there is a derogation signed every January.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is scrub. If you use a machine to clean out scrub there will be a heap of briars, bushes and branches that need to be burned.