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European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2018: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to talk on this very important matter. These measures will hurt all the small fishermen. The Minister has said that it will only affect the bigger trawlers but it will hurt small fishermen in Castletownbere, all along Berehaven, down into Dingle and Cahirciveen, up the Kenmare river, Rossdohan, Blackwater and Tahilla. The same law will apply to all those...

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2018: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is an unfair system and I do not like to see that smile on the face of the Minister. We are talking about people who are out on the sea. Their lives are in danger most of the time, while they are trying to eke a very difficult living, dealing with the elements most of the time. It is wrong to think that small infringements by these people will be dealt with via a statutory instrument....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Ceol in Éirinn: Plé (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome all the people who gave us such a wonderful presentation, especially Mr. Ó Murchú, whom I have known for many years and who was a great friend of my father. They did many great things together. I am proud that my father was, as Mr. Ó Murchú said, chairman of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann in Kerry for five years. I am proud that we had seven...

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to again raise the lack of funding and staff to provide an adequate home help service in Kerry, which has been promised. I have raised this issue since I came into this House over two years ago. All that people are getting when they reach 80 or 85 years of age is five hours a week. Is this fair? There are 168 hours in the week and to be given just five hours a week is miserly....

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is part of what we see here today. The Taoiseach and the Government have little regard for small babies and I suppose they have less for elderly people. That is what is wrong and it is why people are not getting the satisfaction or getting the due regard they are entitled to.

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are all the one now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses. I must concur with Senator Murnane-O'Connor who raised the HAP cap. The cap has been set at €575 in County Kerry. People can appeal and, if lucky, the threshold will be raised by 20%. However, rents around Killarney have increased to €1,000, €1,200 or €1,500 and €2,000 and the HAP payment in no way meets the needs of many people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Give me just a minute and I will finish, as it has-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The scheme has a bearing on this issue. Funding from purchases accrued to the local authority, which allowed the authority to do up vacant houses, or voids as they are called. However, that is not happening now as it used to previously, which is having an adverse effect on the housing list. I thank the Chairman.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: No.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can our little country really afford another layer of bureaucracy, in light of the HSE and other such bodies that do not seem to be accountable to anybody making serious decisions? If they were positive decisions, we would be glad, but sadly they are having very negative impacts on society and they do not seem to be accountable, especially the HSE, to anyone for what they are not doing. ...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Most likely they will not be better than the Chief Justice-----

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----the President of the Court of Appeal, the President of the High Court, the President of the Circuit Court or the President of the District Court.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Those people could never come up to that level or have that amount of experience.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is nothing to be laughed at anyway.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Some people -----

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: No, this is something different.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry, a Cheann Comhairle, but that is the truth. It is happening behind the scenes. This is why I am extremely worried about what is going on.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am concerned that we are undoing a system that has served this country well for more than 100 years just to satisfy one Minister who is supporting the Government. It is about keeping him on side in order that he will continue to support the Government. He has been promoting this proposal for many years even before he was elected to this Dáil. It is clear that our Judiciary has been...

Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too ask the Government to bring some common sense to our Garda vetting regime. Some might say I have a conflict of interest because I have an old bus and my drivers have to comply with Garda vetting guidelines. The escort on a bus might be vetted by the Garda to mind the children on the bus but he or she must be vetted again if he or she wants to drive the bus. Transport services are...