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Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Parents are waiting with sick children. They cannot sleep as they are worried about when consultants will see them and they are waiting for treatment. Elderly people are waiting for hips and knees and every other type of operation. The most serious thing at present is that people are waiting in our cardiac unit, a unit that does massive work for many people in Kerry, Cork and the south of...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: One thousand jobs have been announced for Dublin.

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The cost of fuel, diesel and petrol, has gone through the roof, especially in the past six months and since the last budget. I understand the Exchequer's revenue take is now at least 20 cent more per litre of diesel or petrol. I ask the Taoiseach to forgo that massive revenue take increase and give some of it back to the poor people. Hauliers, ordinary people who drive to work and farmers...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government is not being fair with respect to what is happening.

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the members of Dublin Fire Brigade who are in the Public Gallery and thank them and all of their colleagues throughout the country for the excellent work they do to protect people and property. They attend accidents on our roads and many times they encounter horrendous situations, including in our cities and on our motorways, where lives are lost. The DFB does excellent work. Why...

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The provision of housing is vital for many. Many of those who have sought and been granted planning permission by their local authority to build their own homes have subsequently been affected by appeals to An Bord Pleanála by serial objectors. Likewise, farmers who want to build roads to bring timber from their forestry lands are given permission by their local authority and the...

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are objecting and causing a great deal of harassment for people who simply want to build houses for themselves or provide roadways. They are being stopped and blocked by serial objectors.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Please do something about them.

Order of Business (19 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have to register it if he is registering something because we are brothers and I do not know what he is talking about.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (19 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 302. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances based in County Kerry; the locations in which are they are based; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26251/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (19 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 303. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intermediate care vehicles based in County Kerry; the locations in which the intermediate care ambulances are based; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26252/18]

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I move amendment No. 15:In page 3, lines 25 to 27, to delete all words from and including “be” in line 25 down to and including “(15)” in line 27 and substitute “incur 3 penalty points and an obligation to undertake 10 driving lessons with a qualified instructor”.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can I comment?

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We never heard from the Minister.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: For my part, I will be supporting the continuation of the Special Criminal Court to deal with offences in the same way as it has been dealing with serious offences since 1998. In recent times, there has been a high level of serious crime and large quantities of drugs have been found. Murders are being committed throughout the country almost on a daily basis. The villains who are...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on housing again in the Chamber. I raised the matter of rural cottages and demountable homes with the Taoiseach over a week ago and the man had not a clue what I was talking about. I do not blame him. He is from Dublin and does not know what is happening or is needed in rural Ireland. Rural cottages have been a way of life in rural Ireland...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is Government policy that historical housing estates be taken into the charge of local authorities. It has now come to light that Irish Water has to agree to each application for taking an estate in charge. However, where there are communal septic tanks, neither Irish Water nor the local authority will take the estate into its charge.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is Government policy that historical housing estates are taken into charge. I want the Minister to address the issue and to intervene in what is happening here because neither Irish Water nor the local authorities will commit to taking these estates into charge.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: This leaves many people and residents in a desperate state.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister very much.