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Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----the plaque on the wall-----

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----on the pier myself.

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Today, I respectfully call for a new vision for Kenmare Harbour. What we needs is a practical, modest development, including a new pier, a safe slipway, a few berths for boats, proper facilities for the rowing club, a carpark for campervans and toilet and showering facilities to cater for tourists. This would create local jobs, support tourism by keeping people coming to the town all year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister and his officials for coming before the committee. I wish our new Cathaoirleach well and indeed all the members of the committee. It would be nice if we could all work together and help each other. It is in the best interests of farmers out there that we do so. I have a lot of issues to raise. There is no clock so I do not know how to judge the time. ACRES-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I cannot see that, but anyway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Regarding the ACRES scheme, what I am being told by all the people I am trying to get payments for is that the system is broken down. We have been involved in plant hire and school bus hire and everything. If something breaks down, it has to be fixed, or else it has to be got rid of. This system has been operating for two years now and it should have been streamlined and fixed long before...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: The National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, or the Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right, that is grand. I will keep going. Pillar 1 and pillar 2 of the CAP have to be retained in order to keep farmers going. We have an awful problem. The Minister said there are 133,000 farmers in the country. How many will there be next year or the year after? Many young, would-be farmers cannot see themselves continuing the slavery and racket that their parents went through to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and through the hills and glens of Kerry cannot live on fresh air. They need to get properly recompensed for the Trojan work they do, in spite of all the adversity. I ask the Minister to answer on the important points I have raised. We need more time to discuss them, but I thank the Minister for coming in today. I would appreciate whatever answers he can give me.

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about this matter here again this evening. It is a terrible situation. This war really needs to end. I do not know how we can influence that happening, but we need to send a strong message from this Parliament. We are a very small country. We cannot do anything physically to stop or prevent the war, but we need to send a strong message that we do...

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to welcome Shane's family, Jim and Lucia and their girls. I am sorry they had to go through so much to get recognition for what happened on that fateful night. I commiserate with them on the loss of their son and thank them for doing so much to try to protect his name and to ensure he got the proper recognition he and they deserve. I thank the Minister...

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I oppose it.

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to oppose this proposal by Deputy Coppinger. She said she was amazed that anyone would stand up and talk against this proposal. I have to tell you, a Cheann Comhairle, that from every corner of Kerry, people have rung and sent emails and all kinds of messages to ensure that we stop this at the start. All of us living in rural parts of Ireland know the...

Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Fox Hunting) Bill 2025: First Stage (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am calling a vote now.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a driving test application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27131/25]

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to say a few words about the mayhem that is taking place, in our time, in another country. I know that Ireland can do very little but we need to stand up and be counted. What is happening is barbaric. We see children, old people and women being starved. People are being starved in this day and age. In case someone does not know about it, I know what...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Michael Collins and his group for giving us the chance to talk about this worthy motion this morning. I support everything that has been said. It should be every politician's ambition to allow elderly people to stay and be seen after in their own homes for as long as possible. That is not happening in Kerry. At the present time, you can qualify to get home help or a home...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right. I appeal to the Ministers to see after the elderly people because they brought us to where we are. They fought to ensure that Ireland was a better place. They did their best. We must see after them but we are not doing it.

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this most important matter. First, I welcome Cara and her dad here again today. It is very sad that they have to come here again after being here so many times before. This is still a desperate situation where young families and young parents, when they find that their child is someway not performing to their liking and want to get them assessed,...

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raised this matter by way of question to the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, about a week ago and I am still very concerned about it. Today, I have six new people who are looking to get their tests brought forward. Two of them will not get their tests for seven months. This is what they have been told. I will give an example. One of them is a young fella from Cahersiveen who can do...