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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is the health system running on autopilot? Where are the Ministers for Health and Finance? Is there any accountability on the part of the Government in the context to what is happening?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: When will the new appraisal for capital projects be done? Where is the new community hospital for Killarney on that capital project list? When is it going to happen? We were promised it would happen in 2021. Where does the matter stand?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Like everybody else, I am very concerned about this unmitigated mess, with the cost of the hospital practically doubled. I am worried about a number of aspects. Who decided only five contractors were to be shortlisted? Who decided the procurement ground rules at the start of the tender process? That is an important question. When one contractor was awarded the phase A part of the work,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Was it a mistake to confine the number of contractors to just five being allowed to tender? Five is a very small number and some of these contractors may be found not to be competing but rather working together. One may know the other would not have the capacity to do the job because it is busy elsewhere or other contracts have been secured. Does this compromise whoever is paying for this,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have one other question. Does the witness agree that if the hospital had been built on a greenfield site, there would have been much lower costs in extracting materials from the site and getting materials into the site? Many people, including me, believe that is where the exorbitant cost is. It arises because of the confined space in which the hospital is being built and the difficulty...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: It might have cost a lot less as well.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach did say it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Does the Government want to starve us altogether?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Suicide is a desperate sickness that affects the entire country and County Kerry is no different. Parents are losing their children, while children are losing their parents. The services available are just not effective or good enough. We know that before they died people had gone to doctors and hospitals in County Kerry and been sent home with a fistful of tablets. That is not good...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: As a parliament, we must get behind this because what is happening in our communities is terrible. Communities and families are being ripped apart by this terrible sickness.

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak tonight on this very important matter. It is about connectivity and people in rural and, indeed, in urban areas. Much has been said about rural Ireland but we must realise that within half a mile of the great Killarney town, there are many places that do not have broadband. This spells out what is wrong. There are pockets that have been left...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government had no regard to rural proofing when it introduced the legislation, voted for the Minister, Deputy Ross, and let the people of rural Ireland go to hell. That is what it did.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government is out of touch with what it has done to the people of rural Ireland.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government is completely out of touch. It is playing to the gallery-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----while criticising the Garda about the number of checkpoints that it organised.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government is playing to the gallery.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is the Government that is attacking democracy. Its members were giving out about the Garda over the number of checks.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: It was Government members who were giving out about the Garda.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: He has no answer to it because the Government is blackguarding the people of rural Ireland.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will go away.