Results 21-40 of 837 for long speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...statements. Our first speaker will be Senator Seery Kearney and this will be a seven-minute slot to include questions and answers from our witnesses. That interaction will be seven minutes long.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...most vulnerable and at the worst time in their lives, when they are saying goodbye and getting ready to say goodbye to a person they do not want to say goodbye to, who they want to hold onto for as long as possible. The witnesses make that passage much easier with their kindness. Let the message go out to the people who work in their organisations that we humbly thank them from the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...excellent facility that is St. Mary of the Angels in Beaufort in County Kerry. It is a very special place for people with intellectual and physical disabilities. The Taoiseach knows that I have long campaigned, since 2011, when what I believe was the wrong decision was made to do away with congregated settings. I really do believe it is not a case that one shoe fits all when it comes to...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...compassion or understanding. It was a case of the companies saying, "We are going to make our profit and to hell with you, the customer." I really believe the customers will have a sour taste in their mouths for a long time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Engagement: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...not have services and facilities like that? It is awful and horrendous. I would like the ESRI's view on that aspect of the budget and of life in Ireland today. I thank the Cathaoirleach and hope I did not go on too long.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...there in spite of some people. I warmly welcome the Taoiseach to come there and to open that leg of the road. I also want to raise something the Taoiseach mentioned, namely, education. For a long time , I have said that when a student leaves secondary school, he or she should do so with his or her leaving certificate in one hand and a full driver's licence in the other. I really...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 553. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that low dose naltrexone is not covered under the medical card or hardship scheme and that this is used to treat long Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44971/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ..., only to work and get on with their lives and they are not being treated well by the Government. The disability sector and section 39 workers have been shouting very loudly and very hard for a long time. They certainly cannot take comfort from this budget either. The Minister, Deputy McGrath, stated "I am conscious that the price of petrol and diesel for motorists have increased in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: No, I was not. I have been around a while but not that long.

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...Shannon LNG terminal from the EU projects of common interest list in 2021. It did so before An Bord Pleanála even had a sniff at the planning application. Imagine making a move to kill the project long before it could even see the light of day. This display of political manipulation is frightening and makes it clear that this action was in direct contradiction of the previous...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: .... I heard Labour Party members say that it was ridiculous for the Minister to even consider reducing the tax rate for property owners. It should be remembered they are not landlords but are people who were there long ago. They are not in existence anymore. They are people who own properties and rent them out. I will make it quite clear. I would not be doing my job right if I did not...

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...to come up with that extra money. They are finding it impossible. That has been well spoken about here already. There is one thing I want to say about our banks. We must get back to the type of banking we had long ago when a person could go into an AIB or a Bank of Ireland, or any one of the other banks, and could meet a person called "the manager". This was the real person, the...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...will put it up to the Minister any day the week that the farmers I work for, the people I represent, are not happy. I am not a Johnny-come-lately. I have been here for a while and I hope I will be here for a long time more if the people are good enough to keep me but predominantly if farmers keep me. I will tell the Minister why. I have always defended farmers, whatever sector of...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...in very stressful circumstances trying to balance the books every week, keep the doors open and provide a service. I make one prediction to the Minister of State, and I hope that I am wrong. Not long ago, it would have been outrageous to think that a person with a housing need would have to be housed by the State in a hotel. We are not a million miles away from the day the Government...

LGBTQI+ Equality: Statements (20 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...medical interventions like hormone therapy or surgery. Despite this, governments, including the current coalition in Ireland, are pushing for early transitioning for children without comprehensive long-term studies on its psychological, physical and social consequences. This is obviously a cause of alarm. However young children grow up and whatever they want to be in the future, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (20 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 630. To ask the Minister for Health if a long-term bed will be offered to a person (details supplied) in the Killarney or Kenmare area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29202/23]

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...plea on behalf of people in Kerry, which is for the local improvement schemes. I thank Deputy Ring for what he did with local improvement schemes. In our county, for example, we have such a long list that there are people on it who will be waiting not for five or ten years but for 15 or 20 years before their road is actually done. That last piece of road up to a person’s house is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Chair. I will be very brief. I apologise that I was delayed for a long time in the Chamber as I waited for my time to speak. I am glad to be here and to have heard some of the evidence. On taxation, I have always dreaded frightening people who want to invest and create employment and who want to come here from abroad and set up business. Only early this morning I had a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...Why in the name of God would the Government want to discredit itself by not being proactive and saying that retained firefighters deserve to be sorted out? This issue should have been resolved a long time ago. The Government is going to do it anyway, so why not knuckle down now, please? On behalf of the retained firefighters in County Kerry, I am asking the Government to sort out this...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Reports (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 463. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what is delaying a long-promised report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27917/23]