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Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to welcome this Bill. Anything that helps to strengthen and ensure the continuation of this valuable industry must be welcomed. There are many issues we hope the legislation will address. It must first strengthen the industry and eliminate illegal activities, of which there have been a few examples. There is a need to regulate the sale of greyhounds both...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad just to get the chance. As the Leas-Cheann Comhairle states, I have only two minutes. The nation has lost confidence in the health service. There are so many different issues, day after day. There is one scandal after another. Deputy Harris will remember well, when he became Minister for Health, that I stated he was a young man and I wished him well, but I honestly have to say...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is no accountability.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: He is getting ready for the next time.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Deputy Michael Healy Rae left out one thing. Does he remember what the Labour Party did to the women's pensions?

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I sympathise and empathise with what is being said but coming from the people who have tabled the motion, I am sorry for all the harm and wrong they did to families in the previous Government. They have already said that if the numbers add up, they will go into government with Fine Gael the next time. They are not finished yet if they get their way. All children should be cherished...

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Children are being wronged at present when they must go into homeless shelters and centres, where they are being accommodated in overcrowded conditions with other people who have addiction problems. Children should not have to be put in places such as this. I appeal to the Minister to rectify this anomaly. The homeless centres we have are not adequate. When people are evicted from their...

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----starting with pensioners and women. It also abolished the death grant-----

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many people are struggling at present to pay for funerals.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: If it was not for the goodwill of undertakers throughout County Kerry, who are forgoing their bills and not charging people-----

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----or putting them under pressure, many people would be in a very bad way.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was interrupted by a blackguard. That is who I was interrupted by.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, has been detailed today to answer on behalf of the Taoiseach. People throughout the country are outraged at the escalation in the cost of the children's hospital. People in Kerry are concerned about our new community hospital in Killarney and how far that will be pushed back. When the Minister is finished talking to his colleagues, I will ask him a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will the Minister spell it out here? Who signed the contract on behalf of the client, the people of Ireland?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government has exposed the taxpayers to this massive increase and the people are entitled to know who signed the contract.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: A lot of the work was carried out in the dining room and Dáil restaurant.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I would not put those people building a house.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is not the Minister paying for it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preservation of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems of Peatlands: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: One of them is here-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preservation of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems of Peatlands: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I now invite Mr. Pádraic Fogarty of the Irish Wildlife Trust to make his opening statement.