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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Please do something to help people who are in pain.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Order of Business is an important platform for Independents as well.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is nothing to laugh about.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: He was not able to respond.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are pressing it.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: He is getting hungry.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: He is not interested in it.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am worried about visitor centres and the adverse effect what is proposed might have on visitors when they see these signs as they enter various places. I am concerned for small breweries, such as Killarney brewery and the Dingle Brewery Company, that it will affect them adversely or reverse the progress that has been made and the jobs that they have provided. If one goes back six years to...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are also dying because of the failure of the Minister to provide a proper health service.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister should not point his finger at me.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Vótáil.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why do we have to be the first with these labels? The Minister is saying others will have them. When will that be?

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We know that this will place people like the operators of the Dingle distillery at a serious disadvantage because if there is a bottle up on the counter with a cancer label on it and another bottle that does not have a cancer warning on it, which one will the consumer go for? It could be a tourist from whatever part of the world looking at it and we depend on tourism in a big way in County...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not know why I am being interrupted.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We started out with good intentions to prevent underage drinking and we were hoping that the minimum unit pricing would have a positive effect on that but we have gone totally off the wall with this. It is ridiculous. That is not to say that there are not issues to be addressed but this is not the way to do it. There are strict codes in place on how alcohol is advertised and marketed....

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----because of cancer which is caused by so many different things.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was interrupted in the middle of it-----

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----even by the Acting Chairman and that is alright too. The Government has gone away from the core of what we set out to do at the start and it has become totally ridiculous by insisting that we will have to have labels on bottles of alcohol, in pubs and in other venues.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am concerned about the damage this will do to the tourism and hospitality sectors, micro-breweries and breweries. I am proud to say that Kerry is home to some of Ireland's most reputable distilleries and craft breweries. Over the past six years, the Dingle Distillery has built up a reputation of producing some of Ireland's finest whiskey, vodka and gin. It has a world class visitor...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is going to cost companies if they have to put this labelling on their products while imported products from Scotland and so on will not have it. Do people understand what I am saying?