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Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Project Ireland 2040 states planning in rural areas will be granted if it will not detract from urban centres. That is very unfair and hurtful to people in rural Ireland.

Brexit Negotiations: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are approaching the most crucial, critical time in the State's history in terms of how the people of Ireland will survive or manage if Brexit becomes a reality. I was the first person in this Chamber after the result of the referendum became known to ask the then Taoiseach and Tánaiste to plead with the UK to have another referendum. I am still asking for that and many people around...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this very important topic. It could be construed by some that I have a conflict of interest here because I am a school bus operator, as was my father before me since 1956. I am proud to provide a service and to transport children safely to schools. That is what every contractor I know in Kerry does. I want the witnesses to confirm a few...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, and I am very grateful for being allowed to raise these issues. The Department has gone back on the promise it made, when it closed an outlying school, that the children would be transported to the central school in that parish. That is not happening in Scartaglen where the people were promised that they would be taken to the school in Cordal parish. They now have to travel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Through the Chair, if the RSA stopped a bus or had a problem with one, what would it do? My understanding is that it would march it off to do a full investigation and it does not go any further than that until things are put in order if something was found to be wrong. It is the same with lorries, even new lorries. Is that not correct? How is the RSA allowed to make a statement like this...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister has to work a bit harder.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The programme for Government has the ambition of protecting farmers' incomes. Suckler farmers are experiencing severe difficulties in County Kerry and all along the west of Ireland. These farmers provide the source of our beef, by and large, for most of the rest of the country. Suckler prices are down by a third in Cahirsiveen, Castleisland and Kenmare marts. Farmers are losing today. I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Heating oil prices have gone up by 29% - almost one third - in the past 12 months. It will cost householders an extra €160 for each fill of a 1,000 litre tank. It is recognised that it takes two fills to do a home for one year, so this is an increase of €320. Ireland's heating oil costs are four times more expensive than in the North of Ireland due to higher levies, taxes and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Poor people-----

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this very important Bill and also to thank Deputy Clare Daly for her input and her long-standing work on this matter. The coroner services, which are operated by the local authorities, are in many instances the final verification of what happen to a family's loved one and on all occasions it is a very sad time for families. So many families have...

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (18 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Post offices have been part of the fabric of rural communities since the foundation of the State. I thank Tom O'Callaghan for attending all the meetings in rural Kerry, where 12 post offices are to close, for his assistance and for attending meetings as far away as Ballinskelligs, way down in south Kerry. Nine post offices in one part of north Kerry are being closed. The Minister says...

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (18 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am asking the Minister to extend it much further than that - for at least one month.

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (18 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: People in rural communities have been shocked and are reeling at what is happening in their parishes. The Government says that by closing one post office it is saving two. How does the Minister explain closing nine in one part of north Kerry? What will happen is that people will get their pensions paid into their bank accounts. They will not go to the bigger towns or leave their own...

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (18 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: No one is begrudging the retirement packages postmasters such as Séamus McCarthy in Gneevgullia-----

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (18 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----who gave 52 years behind the counter. No one is begrudging him of the money-----

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (18 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----but the community of Gneevgullia is entitled to a post office service.

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (18 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Appointments for-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The health service is in a shambles. People have totally lost confidence in the service in County Kerry. There have been no hip replacement or orthopaedic procedures carried out in County Kerry for at least four months. People who need a hip or knee replacement are in significant pain. The ear, nose and throat section of University Hospital Kerry in Tralee is currently closed. People...