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Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have to order the buses to bring people up because the health service here will not do anything about it.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am concerned about the fair deal scheme. I highlighted my concerns when we originally debated the Bill. Nothing will ever change my opinion that assessing the farm for the fair deal scheme is wrong. In every other instance, only the dwelling house is assessed. If the Government were to be fair, only the dwelling house on the farm would be assessed in these cases. This decision is...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government is accepting dwellings in every other instance, but where the dwelling house is on a farm, it wants the farm and all. That is not right. I will provide an example of something that happened today. Invariably, I take elderly farmers – recently, I even took a young farmer of 50 years of age – up to Belfast to get their cataracts removed. Today, the HSE has...

Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Be honest

Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: People do not trust-----

Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Put it to the people and call a referendum.

Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Call a referendum.

Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: After what our forefathers went through for 800 years, culminating in gaining our independence early in the last century, it is a fright to God to see how Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and their buddies in the Green Party are using this proposal. They will ram it through tonight with the votes that they have, like they did with the migration pact.

Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: You can talk after. I did not interrupt anyone.

Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: What you are proposing to do is dilute our neutrality and our sovereignty. You are not being honest with the Irish people or with the Defence Forces. Why do you not hold a referendum on this matter? Why did you not hold a referendum on the migration pact?

Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I did not interrupt you.

Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am asking you questions. Why do you not hold a referendum about what you are proposing to do?

Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: You are not being honest with the people. Look what you did last Wednesday night. Look at what you are doing - diluting our neutrality. When Ireland fought for independence, no one came to our aid. For 800 years, nobody came. It was Ireland itself that gained its independence.

Defence Forces: Motions (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: You are chipping away at it now day by day. First the migration pact and now joining PESCO. Our neutrality will be gone with what you are at. You have to be honest with the people. Why did you not hold a referendum? You talked before about getting rid of the triple lock. You know what you are doing but you are not telling the Defence Forces. This will affect them and jeopardise them....

Tackling All Forms of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to contribute and I thank the Government for making time available. Clearly, the numbers are going up and something needs to be done to ensure that a woman and her children can remain in their home without the threat of being harmed. A person’s home is her or his castle. Too much of this is going on, but it is not being reported. Women are slow to leave...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Labour Party for giving me the opportunity to say a few words about this very serious matter. Clearly, Natasha O'Brien has highlighted the unfairness of the decision taken, which was not proportionate to the crime that was carried out against her. Judges need to be allowed to have a bit of discretion but in this case the decision was totally wrong. The whole of Ireland are up...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing us time. Like all elected representatives, I am aware of the pressures on students seeking accommodation, especially in places like Limerick and Cork. When they cannot get accommodation, they have to travel every day by bus or some other way. Travelling from Killarney or Tralee to Limerick takes two hours. Going there and back adds four hours...

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is right and I ask her not to shake her head. We know that it is right and I cannot understand how these people are let onto the plane in the first place. That is where the Government needs to have people and officials, immigration and custom officials, to ensure that these people do not get onto the plane. I do not really think it is the responsibility of the carriers too much at all...

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this important debate. Clearly, I agree with some of the points that are being discussed relating to the firearms and offensive weapons and increasing of the maximum penalties for carrying knives. This situation has to be addressed because every second day when we listen to the news, someone has been stabbed or knifed again in Dublin and indeed...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (25 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the urgent action that can be taken to entice young people to go into trades through apprenticeships (details supplied) given the deficit that exists; if placements will be made closer to home; and if additional night classes will be introduced locally to facilitate young people who are working. [27258/24]