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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: However, we will be back on 18 September because what is happening is not fair or right.

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government seeks to protect the environment throughout the country. Yet, there are three lovely villages in Kerry that do not have sewerage treatment plants, namely, Scartaglin, Currow and Beaufort. With Irish Water and the set-up in place, there is no way forward for these communities to access or get sewerage treatment plants. What are they going to do about it?

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is to protect our environment.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Tánaiste. I agree with him that consultants and doctors have the knowledge but they are prevented from signing the applications because it looks like they are not indemnified by the HSE and that liability will fall to them. Time is not on the side of many of these patients. I am asking the Government to do something, by statutory instrument or whatever, to allow the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Clearly they are afraid.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to thank the Ceann Comhairle for his kind remarks at the start of this session, and I want to thank him and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the professional way that they run this Chamber. Indeed, I thank all the Oireachtas Members from all sides and all the people around the country who work and strive to keep Ireland ticking over, from the highest-paid executive to the people on the...

Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the approval of a GP card for our carers. It should be a full medical card on account of the great work they do. Many are family members who give up their jobs and their time to care for their parents or other relatives who would have no one else to care for them and they get little respite or time for themselves. I agree with Deputy Collins. The home help service is 30...

Implications of Brexit for Irish Ports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important matter. We do not know what will happen with Brexit and neither does the Minister of State. We need to be ready and ensure that our ports, including Rosslare, are up to scratch. The customs process must also be ready in order that we can still trade with the UK if it still wishes to trade with us. Likewise, the roads infrastructure...

Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government is allocating massive sums of money to the HSE. Some of it is very well spent and some of it not being well spent at all. It is a known fact that when people who break their legs and get crutches seek to hand back the crutches, they will not be taken back. These crutches cost money. Likewise with a patient who is in a wheelchair. The wheel on the wheelchair broke and he...

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thought that after two and a half years something would be done to help young people to get insurance at a reasonable cost. I gave several weeks to discussing the programme for Government and pulled out before I had finished because most of the stuff I was putting into it was being pulled out as fast as we were putting it into it. I did, however, think the Government would do something...

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They were untruths. I am not naming any particular man, but the rumour was spread by the Government that the cost of insurance had gone down by 17%. That is certainly not true. There are all sorts of racket going on. If an area is designated by the catchment flood risk assessment and management, CFRAM, programme as being in danger of being flooded, owners of houses in its vicinity will...

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They cannot get insurance. One event is not going ahead this year because it could not get insurance. It was a mighty event that brought people from all over south Kerry to it, but it will not go ahead this year.

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: No, it is not Puck Fair, but it was a mighty event.

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many people were involved in it and gave much of their time doing voluntary work, but they could not take the chance and go ahead this year because they could not get insurance. This is the Minister of State's and the Government's time. They should be doing something about the cost of insurance for young and old, but they are not. It has all kinds of Bill to see after Ross because he will...

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am not being unfair, but I was out last weekend and got the lot of it. People are very disappointed. Now another set of people will be equally disappointed. They are the ones who cannot pay the cost of insurance and the Government is not doing anything about it. I am afraid that it will not do anything about it, but I am pleading with the Minister of State not to ignore our pleas...

Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for acceding to our request because the protection of small family companies in particular - I know so many of them - is paramount. It would be very harsh to make a law meaning they would have to apply to the High Court for this process because it entails costs such as hiring barristers. There is also the worry for people in these small companies, which would be too...

Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this because I have a gripe with regard to small companies having to go to the High Court to get the deadline extended. Today, I had contact from a person whose accountant was sick. That person received a fine because the deadline was missed by a few days. The small companies in my neck of the woods are all family-run operations. They have to...

Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Reduce the tax.

Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are told that the price of electricity is to rise by 9.3% and the price of gas by 12.8%. This will affect every man, woman and child in the country. Has the Government any power to regulate these people or control them? This is going to hurt poor people, especially those in receipt of the fuel allowance. Will the Government increase the fuel allowance? Will it intervene? I am asking...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are being taken here. If the Minister of State does not know who is going to appoint him, who does know?