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Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have one more question.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, but I believe-----

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Every youngster deserves one chance. If he or she blots his or her copybook, I would accept it, but they are not being given a chance. The Minister does not understand what it is like to live in a remote place. If he was asked to live in a place like Glenmore, Lauragh or the Black Valley for three or four weeks and did not have a car, he would understand how hard it was and what it was...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: May I ask the remainder of my questions?

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: May I ask the remainder of my questions?

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, but can I ask the remainder of my questions afterwards?

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: When the Minister spoke at the beginning of the debate on this particular amendment he said that a young, unaccompanied driver, when stopped on the side of the road, will be taken out of his or her car and left there while the car is taken away. As I understand it, on a cold winter evening this young boy or girl will have to walk home. If that person is leaving a place such as Kenmare and...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: If a person is coming out of Kilorglin and is stopped and taken out of his or her car, how is that person going to get to Glencar, Cromane, Glenbeigh or Beaufort?

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is as I have said since this debate began. The Minister does not understand the places I am talking about. Each place is different. Each place is remote, and other places are more remote. I am entitled to point out, on the floor of the Dáil, and I will abide by the direction of the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, that each place is different. I represent each of those places. I represent...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is a different kind of a road. I am talking about a national primary route. It is practically a motorway, and if a person is stopped on the side of that road that person's life will be in grave danger. A young person making his or her way home in the dark may not make it. It is a similar story for someone leaving Listowel for Knockanure, Tarbert or Ballylongford. If one looks at the...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will the Minister answer this question?

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister was invited to Kerry last week by Local Link Kerry. I was invited to attend as well. The Minister did not invite me. When I looked for details about how the Minister was travelling and what travel arrangements had been made I was told to contact the office of Deputy Brendan Griffin. I was also stalled there. I received no information from him. At the start of this debate...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have more questions to ask.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are relevant to this amendment. Instead of suggesting that these people be put off the road and kept from driving, why was a curfew not imposed on them, from early morning until evening so that they could get to work, apprenticeships, colleges or to their work experience placements? Why did we not think of the box-clever system, where a little black box can be fitted to a car which can...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Acting Chairman-----

Bail (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Deputy Mattie McGrath has taken all the time. We should do what is wanted by the people out the country being affected by thieves, blackguards and criminals. When dealing with serial offenders, we should give them no bail or legal aid. The first day they are caught they should go before a judge and be jailed right away. Waste no more time or money with them as that is the way they should...

Pre-European Council: Statements (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Minister of State to be truthful when she gives her interpretation of what is happening in respect of England leaving the EU. We were given the impression before Christmas by the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste that all was rosy in the garden and that there would not be a hard border. I do not know how or where that interpretation came from because it seems that everything is still...

Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a promise on page 56 of A Programme for a Partnership Government to the effect that equal and fair treatment will be given to sick and vulnerable people and children. That is why Ms Noreen O'Neill from Kilgarvan and her friends are climbing Croagh Patrick next weekend. They are highlighting the need for tetrahydrocannabinol, THC, to be made available. It is a component of cannabis...

Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Fianna Fáil is in the deal as well.

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this very important motion. We must all recognise that the special needs assistant scheme is vital in ensuring the integration of children with special needs into mainstream education and the positive role SNAs play in the development of children in schools. They must be thanked for the great work they do and the way that they bring children...