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Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: We never interrupted Deputy O’Reilly when she was talking.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: No one interrupted the Deputy when she was talking.

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, welcome this Bill. Ireland ranks lowest among OECD countries in its ability to link and access data. This Health Information Bill represents a critical step towards modernising Ireland's healthcare system by providing a legal basis for digital health records and facilitating the sharing of patient data. The Bill aims to improve patient care and bring Ireland into line with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is no good to the people of Kerry today.

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Regional Group for this important motion and for giving us the chance to debate it. The Government appears to be fudging on this. Support is not good enough without acting and providing the carers with the facility so that they do not have to go through a means test, because many carers are seeing after people out of the goodness of their heart. One thing that people who need...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I support Sinn Féin's motion. Like everyone else, I was horrified by Aoife Johnston's death. As I said at the time and since, I honestly believe that those culpable for her death or neglecting her should be brought to book – no question about it. They should pay a price of some kind, depending on the seriousness of their neglect, for what they did not do. I am very worried...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is obviously a very serious matter and we must treat it as such. When we are talking about mitigating the life sentence for the murder of some other human being, it is serious. You always have to think of the family whose family member was taken from them by someone else, whether it was with a knife, a gun or some other means. There are two sides to this. We cannot be seen to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raise the very serious issue of posts that are waiting to be filled in hospitals in Kerry. University Hospital Kerry has 50 vacant posts for nurses and carers. In Tralee Community Hospital, there are five vacant posts for nurses and there is no director of nursing in place. Dingle Community Hospital has three vacant nursing posts. We wish to have some Irish-speaking nurses appointed to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Beds are closing.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Generation (24 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 332. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to examine issues regarding soler PV approvals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37386/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (24 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 477. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for a nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37521/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (18 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to raise again the proposed Killarney bypass. I have raised this matter several times in this Chamber since I was elected to it in 2016. The Minister was in the Black Valley in Kerry last Friday. It was good to see a Minister in the Black Valley because it is a very remote place and we are glad that connectivity has improved with the launch of broadband in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (18 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the assertion that the route will be defined by the end of the year, it is hoped by the end of October. This defined route would mean a lot to so many people because their lands have been sterilised all these years. I am concerned because we do need €1.5 million next year. I am sorry to say the Green Party spokesperson from Kenmare said that Killarney does not need a...

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will support this motion because it is very important. We need childcare professionals and we need mothers and women in the workforce. They need to work to keep their homes, so we need to help those people, along with childcare professionals. The motion calls for extending parent's leave and benefit schemes to ensure parents have the choice to remain with their baby in the first year of...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is the most serious issue we have to deal with on the island of Ireland. CAMHS has a waiting list of over two years for appointments. As therapeutic supports are extremely hard to get, many doctors feel the only option available to them is to prescribe antidepressants. That is not fair on young children. Imagine a little girl of 13 years who is harming herself and whose parents have...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have to say this because it has been in my head for so long. Some years ago, a doctor and a family member could get someone in danger of harming themselves into residential care where they would be minded one to one all day and night until the person got better. We cannot do that anymore. It is not happening anymore, but it has to happen because so much of this is happening across the...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Health services are totally underfunded and understaffed at the coal face. We need more GPs, residential care for people with physical and intellectual disabilities and hospital beds. People on waiting lists are suffering agony, pain and anxiety. Many people would have lost their eyesight were it not for the hundreds of people we bused to Belfast. Infrastructural work for sewerage and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to make a point of order.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is fairly hard for any Deputy in the House to get elected. For each Deputy, it is a difficult ordeal. Notwithstanding that, it is easy enough to come up from Kerry. There are no restrictions all the way on the road up but it is getting increasingly more difficult to come into this building. On my way, I went out of the Dáil and I wanted to come back up through Molesworth Street....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is why we raised this question.