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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Two honest brokers.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to raise with the Minister of State this evening the question of funding for two estates that lie together on the top Aghadoe - Birch Hill and Old Killarney Village. There is a problem with the sewerage systems, for which planning permission was granted. Kerry County Council has cited problems with this going back almost ten years. In 2020, funding was...

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Stop the clock so.

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to say a few words in support of Sinn Féin's motion. We thank Sinn Féin for highlighting this issue again this evening, as it has been numerous times. I sympathise and empathise with the extended O'Farrell family. We wish them well in the future. We are very sorry about what has happened. The system here has let all of them down and has let the...

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: You are out of order to interrupt me. I know a lot about Garda vetting. If I want to get a bus driver to drive school children, he has to be Garda vetted for that job. If Teddy McCarthy in Sneem wants him to drive his bus in the same space of time, he has to be Garda vetted again to get a job with Teddy McCarthy. If he wants to do charity work with children, he has to be Garda vetted...

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am not taking dictation from you. I represent the people of Kerry and Ireland and they are asking why people coming in here are not being vetted. You are being unfair to our people because there are accidents and all kinds of assaults and there is no accountability. They are not being checked out coming in here. That is not fair. Do not shake your head. They do not even have a...

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is relevant because more of it is happening. I am telling you it is happening. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. If our people are Garda vetted for everything, people coming in here have to be Garda vetted as well.

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Who are you to say I am out of order? Who made God out of you? You do not even believe in God.

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: You think you are God yourself. That is the trouble. You think you are infallible.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about the very important matter of accommodation for college students. Kerry students have a serious difficulties at different times in getting accommodation in places like Limerick and Cork. The Minister of State will appreciate that Limerick is a savage distance from some parts of Kerry. It takes two hours to get from Killarney to Limerick, but...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29471/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 575. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a breakdown of the number of farmers still waiting on ACRES payments; the percentage of farmers who have been paid in full; the number who have been underpaid and overpaid, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29385/24]

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The case I am making is where a son or a daughter takes over the running of a farm, hoping to keep the farm going and to keep food on the table. If the farm is worth €500,000 and it is assessed, it means the son or daughter will have to pay €35,000 per year for three years. To find that money during the three years is a burden for someone who is trying to keep the farm ticking...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The one thing I notice is that people from Dublin do not have go to Belfast at all because they are being looked after in Dublin.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The people in Kerry are being left behind.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: It does not happen in Dublin at all. People are looked after in Dublin.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: How do you expect people to go up to the North? Do you want people to walk up or to cycle up?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have to order the buses to bring people up because the health service here will not do anything about it.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am concerned about the fair deal scheme. I highlighted my concerns when we originally debated the Bill. Nothing will ever change my opinion that assessing the farm for the fair deal scheme is wrong. In every other instance, only the dwelling house is assessed. If the Government were to be fair, only the dwelling house on the farm would be assessed in these cases. This decision is...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government is accepting dwellings in every other instance, but where the dwelling house is on a farm, it wants the farm and all. That is not right. I will provide an example of something that happened today. Invariably, I take elderly farmers – recently, I even took a young farmer of 50 years of age – up to Belfast to get their cataracts removed. Today, the HSE has...