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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to ask a specific question regarding Daly’s roundabout in Killarney, on the N22, which the Minister knows well. There is a proposal by TII and Kerry County Council to remove the roundabout and replace it with a traffic light. Five sets of traffic lights are supposed to be put up instead of the roundabout. I ask that temporary lights be provided first to see how this will...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister. The people I am talking about know about the help to buy scheme. Many of them do not qualify. The Minister referred to zoned land. We have zoned land in Kenmare. Johnny Healy-Rae raised this last week. There are two applications before Kerry County Council that have gone out for further information. Developers are supposed to provide their own water. They have...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask him to increase the cap that prevents people from getting on the housing list from €37,000 to €60,000. People are going away and not enough is being done.

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Minister to ask the local authority to build rural cottages on land owned by family members because it is only building one house a year at the minute. That is not enough. We would want to have-----

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have this opportunity to raise with the Minister the matter of young fellas, boys and girls, leaving our shores to go to Australia simply because they cannot buy or build a house in this country no matter how good a job they have. I attended an event in Barraduff in east Kerry a couple of weeks ago for ten local youngsters who are departing our shores. Some of them have already...

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have an opportunity to debate this issue. I thank the Social Democrats for putting the motion before the House. It certainly is very timely with the budget happening next week. I have been and am appealing to the Government to get rid of the means test for people who are caring for loved ones. We are talking about human beings. When people become carers, they must, in many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get this opportunity and I welcome each and every one of the witnesses. It has been a really informative process and event for me because I have learned a lot of things. My eyes are open to things that the witnesses are after highlighting that are going on. They will appreciate that where I come from, specifically south Kerry, hardly any grain is grown, but we have a lot of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Deputy Aird will have to talk to my brother. I am here myself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have never come up in the same car and I have to fight my own battles at the doors. If the Government parties promised €65 million or it is promised to the grain growers, I will be watching and insisting that they honour the commitment that was given. The other part of it is, though, that I do not want it to be taken out of the budget that the sheep farmers or any other farming...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am asking the witnesses that question because we are paying more to Ukrainian grain growers than we are to Irish grain growers. That hurts me because we have subsidised Ukraine in a very big way and are still doing it. I see the trouble the witnesses are in with the rented land. Our Government and our Administration should be supporting Irish farmers. As regards insisting now that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Mr. Doyle. As regards Mr. Matt Dempsey and the policy changes he is asking for, I am very interested in that and will be ensuring that at every opportunity I will be looking for that and raising it because we must have a level playing pitch at all times. That does not seem to be the case now. I may not be a grain farmer but I understand grain. We appreciate the attention given...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome each of the witnesses. We have a serious problem. Have the Department officials heard anything about the promise of €65 million for green farmers from the two main parties in the Government? They made an announcement in their pre-election manifestos. Have the officials heard anything about that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I only asked if they have heard anything about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Listen here, now, ye told the people of Ireland not to vote for independence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I hope they deliver. I also hope they do not take it from the sheep farmers. Anyway, I was amazed to hear Mr. Dempsey in relation to the differential between what is demanded of Irish farmers and farmers exporting into Ireland. We do not know what they are putting into the land to grow the grain. Do we do any checks on what is in the grain, what is driving the grain or how they grow it?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Has any assessment been done up until now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The word “may” will have to be taken out of it. It should be a regulatory proposal and the same standards will have to be insisted on from the people exporting in here as from these poor fellows behind my back who already have the standards demanded of them. There is an unfairness there that has to be sorted out. I am very concerned about it. We also have a serious health...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The last thing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: If we do not have grain in Ireland, one thing I know for sure is that we will not have straw to bed the cattle down below in Kilgarvan, County Kerry or anywhere else because if we do not have grain, we will not have straw. I do not see us importing it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a lot of talk about the carbon footprint and sequestering carbon, and these fellows are doing it automatically. They need to be compensated for that. If there is no other reason they should get help, that is a reason. We seem to be spending any amount of money on climate action and stopping fellows going here and going there and doing this and doing that, but these fellows are...