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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]

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Rubbish.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are telling the truth. The Deputy is antagonising us.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: If he had a spade he would starve - he would have more dinner times than dinners.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is better planning than the side of the road.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the Bill and the extension of hedge-cutting time to include the month of August and burning time to include the month of March. Farmers in Northern Ireland are allowed burn until 15 April and, as there is only a ditch between the North and the South, it does not make much sense for farmers here to have to cease by the end of February. Many Februarys have been wet and farmers could...

Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this matter this evening. I believe that most people who get up in the morning want to do right and they mean well but I have concerns about putting compulsory purchase orders, CPOs, on land or taking land off people. I am worried about that because if land was handed down or had to be bought at a high price, it may not be fair to take it off...

Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: How much time have we?

Establishment of Special Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: This will be a talking shop-----

Establishment of Special Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The farmers and workers of Ireland will have to pay the price.

Establishment of Special Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: My views on climate change are well known since my days on Kerry County Council before I ever came to Dáil Éireann. The climate has changed going back over the centuries when there were no fossil fuels and when there was a very limited number of cows, which are being blamed now for the change in the climate. When the weather is wet or rainy, the scientists are blaming what we are...

Establishment of Special Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is the Government going to paralyse the working people and farmers? Is this talking shop going to be about how to do that? When we get flooded the story is that it is climate change and we will do nothing about it. What the Government is not doing anything about is allowing farmers to clear the rivers. Let us be honest about it. Water has to rise if the rivers are blocked and choked,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry I was not here for the start of the presentations. I am delighted to welcome the witnesses. I have to declare that I have a small haulage business. I understand the problems and the regulations by which hauliers have to abide. I am glad to hear the witnesses putting to bed the idea of equalisation and having diesel at the same price as petrol in the absence of a proper rebate...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Environmental Impact of Fiscal Instruments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I did not mention any names.