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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 4. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if longer sentences and stiffer penalties for criminals who break into homes of elderly persons will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29824/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: To my mind one of the worst crimes that happens in our communities is where the homes of elderly people are broken into and robbed and the elderly people are assaulted. They have given their lives to bring our country to where it is. This is the most unsavoury crime that happens. 11 o’clock I call on the Minister to treat this as such and ensure the severest penalties possible...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (5 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda stations in Lauragh and Sneem, County Kerry, will reopen on a full-time basis. [29825/18]

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: A reference was made to my plant hire company. It is a small company and I am proud of it. We employ people, pay our taxes and pay our suppliers as best we can and the taxes we pay help to pay every Member in this House. We make no apologies for employing people and trying to do our best, which is what we believe we are doing. Deputy Burton referenced the fact that there were no...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Then what is the hullabaloo about?

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are saying there is no problem inside the ditches. The birds and the bees can have the rest of the countryside and all of us will do our best to help them. I appeal to the Minister to ensure this Bill is passed speedily because many narrow roads cannot be travelled. Three people were killed in a storm that hit the country, and mothers were taking their children to school. That...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We want the same for the people we represent in the rural counties like Kerry.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is why there is no ground support.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Deputy cut their wages.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk again on the Bill because, as I see it, it is one of the most important Bills to come into this Chamber since I have come here. What this is about is the right of people in rural areas to have a safe road to their door, and that is all they are asking. The Members around me in the House have no briars prohibiting them from getting to their doors. I...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They were addressing me when they were looking this way. I can look around too, Acting Chairman, and I am entitled to do that. I will tell you one thing, Acting Chairman. I have no gripe with birds, bees or any other thing like that, and I would love to hear the curlew singing. However, they have the countryside besides the roadside - they have all the rest of the country. We are not...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: She did lose her eye.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry that I have been unable to give some of the witnesses the attention they deserve because I was not present for the start of some of the presentations. I welcome the witnesses from the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Monaghan, Galway, Kilkenny and especially the two girls from Kerry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very proud to be a Kerryman and to represent Kerry in the Dáil. We have the Listowel Writers' Week but there are other cultural events that happen only in Kerry. The Listowel festival organisers do their job so well and make people feel welcome. The event was founded by John. B. Keane, Dr. Bryan MacMahon and others. Both of their names are synonymous with Listowel and they have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The current scheme of Garda vetting is so ridiculous that this country is tied up in knots. One may have someone who works in a nursing home in Kenmare but he or she cannot work in a nursing home in Kilgarvan without being Garda vetted again. That proves that it is not just volunteers for arts festivals that are affected. I have raised the issue of Garda vetting with the Taoiseach in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We like to go to Galway but we dread them in the football, that is the problem. It is good to have the witnesses here and I wish them every success in the future.

Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The programme for Government includes a promise to do something about the cost of insurance. The Members opposite are the Government and Deputy Paschal Donohoe is the Minister for Finance. The cost of all types of insurance has gone up and it is affecting young and old. Today we had a presentation from a group which stated that people are not even being quoted for cars that are more than...

Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will we have to bring someone like Seán Quinn back into the insurance industry? People could pay for insurance when he was involved.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Expenditure (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 262. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE spent on wheelchairs in 2017; if the HSE will consider repairing wheelchairs rather than offering new chairs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29442/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 269. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE spent on crutches in 2017; the reason it does not take back used crutches when a patient wishes to return them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29470/18]