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Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Deputy cut their wages.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk again on the Bill because, as I see it, it is one of the most important Bills to come into this Chamber since I have come here. What this is about is the right of people in rural areas to have a safe road to their door, and that is all they are asking. The Members around me in the House have no briars prohibiting them from getting to their doors. I...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They were addressing me when they were looking this way. I can look around too, Acting Chairman, and I am entitled to do that. I will tell you one thing, Acting Chairman. I have no gripe with birds, bees or any other thing like that, and I would love to hear the curlew singing. However, they have the countryside besides the roadside - they have all the rest of the country. We are not...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: She did lose her eye.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry that I have been unable to give some of the witnesses the attention they deserve because I was not present for the start of some of the presentations. I welcome the witnesses from the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Monaghan, Galway, Kilkenny and especially the two girls from Kerry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very proud to be a Kerryman and to represent Kerry in the Dáil. We have the Listowel Writers' Week but there are other cultural events that happen only in Kerry. The Listowel festival organisers do their job so well and make people feel welcome. The event was founded by John. B. Keane, Dr. Bryan MacMahon and others. Both of their names are synonymous with Listowel and they have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The current scheme of Garda vetting is so ridiculous that this country is tied up in knots. One may have someone who works in a nursing home in Kenmare but he or she cannot work in a nursing home in Kilgarvan without being Garda vetted again. That proves that it is not just volunteers for arts festivals that are affected. I have raised the issue of Garda vetting with the Taoiseach in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We like to go to Galway but we dread them in the football, that is the problem. It is good to have the witnesses here and I wish them every success in the future.

Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The programme for Government includes a promise to do something about the cost of insurance. The Members opposite are the Government and Deputy Paschal Donohoe is the Minister for Finance. The cost of all types of insurance has gone up and it is affecting young and old. Today we had a presentation from a group which stated that people are not even being quoted for cars that are more than...

Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will we have to bring someone like Seán Quinn back into the insurance industry? People could pay for insurance when he was involved.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Expenditure (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 262. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE spent on wheelchairs in 2017; if the HSE will consider repairing wheelchairs rather than offering new chairs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29442/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (4 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: 269. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE spent on crutches in 2017; the reason it does not take back used crutches when a patient wishes to return them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29470/18]

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Rubbish.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are telling the truth. The Deputy is antagonising us.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: If he had a spade he would starve - he would have more dinner times than dinners.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is better planning than the side of the road.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the Bill and the extension of hedge-cutting time to include the month of August and burning time to include the month of March. Farmers in Northern Ireland are allowed burn until 15 April and, as there is only a ditch between the North and the South, it does not make much sense for farmers here to have to cease by the end of February. Many Februarys have been wet and farmers could...

Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this matter this evening. I believe that most people who get up in the morning want to do right and they mean well but I have concerns about putting compulsory purchase orders, CPOs, on land or taking land off people. I am worried about that because if land was handed down or had to be bought at a high price, it may not be fair to take it off...

Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: How much time have we?

Establishment of Special Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (3 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: This will be a talking shop-----