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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will highlight an analogy on what Government gets and what Government wants. Take the Minister. This year, he wanted to stop people from going to the bogs and cutting turf. What did he get? He was personally the cause of more people going to the bog this year than ever before. People who used to cut two hoppers, for example, cut four or five. Their attitude was that they would fill...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: We are gone what?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: We were hoping you would let it go. You are after bringing attention to it and making matters worse.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: Thank you very much. First of all, could I start off by welcoming the stuttering group from Ireland? I want to welcome them warmly. They want to create awareness around stuttering. They have an event on in the audiovisual room at 2 p.m. I want to declare quickly an interest in what I will speak on, namely self-catering in Ireland, and I also want to highlight that I own a guest house....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister does not believe that.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (20 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 267. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if either person can apply for farm assist in cases in which two names are on a herd number; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52529/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (20 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 355. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision made in 2011 about congregated settings will be reversed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52625/22]

Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: Governance, oversight and holding people to account is of massive importance to everybody, especially when it comes to the banking sector. Today, colleagues and I met with the Central Bank to discuss changes that it announced. Again, like everything, it seemed to have left many people behind. It still is insisting on 10% being made available from people’s savings if they are looking...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I appreciate and acknowledge the work of the Social Democrats on this very important motion and thank them for it. I too would like to welcome the people in the Visitors Gallery to Dáil Éireann. It would be wrong for any of us to be debating or talking about this motion without again acknowledging, as we all rightfully do, the horror and awfulness suffered by the people in...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Birth Certificates (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will expedite an application by a person (details supplied) for an Irish birth certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52283/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 238. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52279/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department initiated contact with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform regarding the next forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52194/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 293. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that his Department officials began discussions with all other Departments and the European Commission in a timely manner to ensure that there will be no delay in launching the next forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52195/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any delay by his Department in launching the new forestry programme will impact negatively on planting, and therefore affect climate action afforestation targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52196/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: 295. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the new forestry programme 2023-2027 will be launched; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52198/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Chair for the opportunity to contribute. I apologise as earlier I had to step out to go into the Chamber. It was to talk about the banks, funnily enough, and what they are doing to us at present. The presentations made were sound and helpful. I appreciate listening to experienced people like Professor Kinsella and Dr. Healy and getting their outlook not just on this budget...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: There is one very practical thing that I would love to see and that is abolishing from the English language a word that everybody seems to use. To me, if a property owner is involved in the business of maintaining his or her property and renting it out to somebody else, then he or she is a property owner. All the lords and all those sorts of people were dealt with a long time ago in this...

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank most sincerely the Sinn Féin Party for bringing forward this very important issue for debate on the floor of Dáil Éireann. It is very important because it is arising at a time when the Minister and the Government are telling people that they cannot go to a filling station and buy a bag of turf and that they do not want them going to the bogs because they are afraid...

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: We will not fight about it.

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: I started out as a county councillor in what was then known as the Killorglin electoral area, which covered all of the Iveragh Peninsula down into Valentia Island, Portmagee and Ballinskelligs. It is probably the most beautiful part of the entire western world. County Kerry is the tourism capital of the world and Killarney is the finest destination that any person could ever want to go to....