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Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was very interested in what Deputy Peadar Tóibín stated about the RSA having no input into the Bill. Is that what he stated?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: That body stated it wanted to increase the penalties for a person driving on a rural road having consumed a pint and a half of beer. It is the same crowd that is supposed to be interested in safety. It is the same group that is pulling in new lorries on the side of the road and taking them to test centres, even though they are only a few months old. That is what the RSA is doing. It has...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right, but before that will the Minister consider the merit in what I said about local authorities? They are not using their facility to cut dangerous hedges. What they have stated several times is that it is landowners’ responsibility to cut hedges and that they do not have the funding to cut. I do not know whether the Minister can make funding available but funding is probably...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister has said that landowners must pay to cut roadside hedges. I disagree with her view on that aspect, as I have done with many other people before now. Let us discuss what happens if a landowner tries to do anything outside his ditch but on the side of the road. He is not even allowed to erect a small sign that directs people to his business, property or whatever because the land...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I would dearly love to do so, but I know that I do not have the support I need to have it passed here and that if it went to the Upper House, I certainly would not have the support I would need. For these reasons, I will not move the amendment. I hope that at a later time, when people see the sense in what is being proposed in the amendment, it will become a reality and that people will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (3 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has to wait for two years for medical treatment in view of the fact that their condition is life threatening. [19374/18]

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister of State, Deputy McGrath, went to Korea and maybe he got a result because that chubby lad and President Trump are hugging each other now. Maybe the Minister of State had something to do with it.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I would not have stopped them from going anywhere.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister has said that he is colour blind. I hope he told the licensing authority that because if he has not done so, he will not be insured in a car he might drive. Perhaps now that he is a Minister with his own driver, he does not care about having a licence or not, but fine for him if he does. I put it to the Minister and to all the Deputies in the Chamber that this is the most...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We will be challenging it because it was an illegal vote. The Minister might be laughing now but we will challenge it as far as we can. The Minister does not seem to care. He is on some kind of a crusade, some kind of a power ego trip, to get this Bill through. However, he does not realise he is hurting honest, good living people. I am speaking for Kerry. Every other Deputy can speak...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I sympathise with all the families who have lost loved ones due to drunk driving. I emphasis "drunk driving", however, because I do not believe that someone who has consumed a pint, or a pint and a half, and is under 80 mg is a drunk driver. The Minister is on some kind of a crusade and does not have constituents in rural areas who depend on their car to get to work, college or anywhere....

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not know why I should be called a terrorist when I only represent the people of Kerry who elected me and my brother to this House. The Minister could just as well be calling those people terrorists as well. The Minister has thrown a lot of things at me in this debate, such as the accusation that I was fighting this for publicans, but in the course of scoraíochting in Kerry, people...

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I support this amendment as well because it is important that our system has better powers to deal with these people. They were giving us two thumbs up from abroad and doing practically whatever they liked. They took the view that they were untouchable in certain countries. I am unsure how far this will extend or whether those in other countries can still evade our laws and operate...

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is important to say a few words on this penalty which should be used to confiscate the properties, buildings, lands, chattels, vehicles, etc. held by drug lords and criminals. The penalty should fit the crime. It is a different story for parents whose children are being born today at a time when drugs are available around our country. As they bring up their children, they have to face...

Mental Health Parity Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Browne for introducing the Bill and for the opportunity to talk on the issue. The Deputy is right that we are not giving treatment to people who present with mental health issues comparable with the treatment given to people who present with physical or other health issues. I will talk about Kerry. To go back in time, there were 1,200 patients in St. Finan's mental...

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The provision of housing is one of the main aims of this Government, and it is in the programme for Government. The tenant purchase scheme was a vital part of housing in all local authorities. For a number of years we did not have a tenant purchase scheme. In the past three years, a new tenant purchase scheme was introduced but only 80% of applicants are qualifying for the scheme....

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: First of all, I sympathise with Ms Vicky Phelan.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not interrupt other Deputies.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I want to sympathise with Ms Phelan and all the other ladies who were misdiagnosed. I also feel for and sympathise with all the front-line staff who work in hospitals and give their very best to patients when they come in to be seen, whether they be nurses, doctors and front-line staff. I am disappointed with the HSE. People right across the country have lost their confidence in...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They should be sacked.

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