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Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am being reasonable.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There are several reasons for accidents and fatalities on our roads.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Speed is one of the major causes of fatalities. So is tiredness when driving long distances, as people have to do now. They have to get up early in the morning and drive from places such as Cahersiveen in Kerry to Cork or Limerick and drive back home again. It makes a long day out of it and people are tired driving. There is little public transport to help or...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----causing accidents.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: What I am saying about the Bill is, like Deputy Michael Collins said, there is nothing about rural proofing. What will help the people who will be isolated in rural areas because they cannot go to have the one bit of comfort they have, to meet their friends and neighbours in a pub? I heard other Deputies say there were several places for people to go in rural areas, but in most of the...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: No. I want to talk. I had indicated.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is grand. Again, it is very unfortunate that provisions concerning provisional drivers have been added to the Bill and to think that we will criminalise fathers and mothers - jail them, we are told. People commit serious crimes against old people in rural places and get away with it. They are not even jailed. The Minister said mothers and fathers must drive their children or...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Tá sé on the run.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I congratulate and thank the Minister for the LIS funding that he gave to Kerry last year.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will discuss that, but I cannot be criticising the man all of the time.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I would have it said by now if you had kept your mouth shut.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The money is being put to good use and we are grateful for it. I would like to think that it was because of my constant representations to the Minister. I am glad that he acceded and gave us the money. It is a great scheme and everyone appreciates it. I am not happy with the way the Leader programme is being rolled out. The system heretofore of development companies administering the...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is on the agenda.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Chairman is being tough.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Fine.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is very good.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Do the figures for Kerry include IRD Duhallow? That development company covers Gneeveguilla, Rathmore and south-east Kerry.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There are two partnerships that cover south Kerry and north Kerry. The IRD programme for Duhallow covers a small bit of Kerry as well.

Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad of the opportunity to talk on this important matter. Nurses are under severe pressure in University Hospital Kerry, Killarney Community Hospital, Kenmare and Dingle hospitals and Bantry General Hospital, to which many people from our side of the country go. I remember only too well the intensive care unit of Tralee general hospital as my father was there for many weeks. The night...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am concerned by the way the debate is going. What Deputy Tóibín is raising is not connected to what we are trying to do. The Bill is about extending the burning time by one month and extending the cutting time in August by one month. I do not agree with what he said about roadside hedges. No bird is foolish enough to make a nest on the side of a busy road and every road is...