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Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry but these things are very serious and it is just open-ended. It is a laugh. I ask the Minister again to withdraw the Bill at this late stage and go back to the drawing board. Like the man on the television the other night, go back to school again.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry. The Minister never explained-----

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----what he means by suitability, experience or qualifications.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: He never gave us an answer to that.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to talk about this serious matter. The way things are going, we should not be talking at all. This Bill is about appointing people with knowledge to select judges, on whom we rely to mete out justice and give people a fair and balanced hearing. The Judicial Appointments Advisory Board comprises the Chief Justice, who is the chairman, the President of the...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, but this is about changing the system we have and purporting that what is being brought forward is better than it. The person appointed is supposed to have knowledge or experience of the operation of the courts. Who could have more knowledge than a judge or solicitor? Section 12 refers to the provision of supports to persons who are victims of crime or to users of the services...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Put it to a vote.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is a fact that this Bill and the other Bill the Minister, Deputy Ross, has insisted on as his price for supporting the Government have held up the business of the country for the past number of months and are continuing to do so. There will be no account of the Minister, Deputy Ross, when this Bill is found to be wrong in the fullness of time but the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, is bringing...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It could be used to improve Tralee courthouse, which the Minister visited last week, by doing the necessary work we have been waiting on for so many years.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I appeal to the Minister to drop this Bill because the blame will be laid at his foot and does he know who could be writing about it in a few years time? It will be the Minister, Deputy Ross, because that is what he has been doing for the past number of years and it would not surprise me if that is what he will be at in a very short time again.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are very grateful.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: No. You are grand.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Ceann Comhairle has certainly been vindicated in respect of his wisdom and his timely adjourning of the House last night. Time was needed to reflect on what had happened here yesterday evening and last night with the votes and the subsequent votes after decisions were made. These decisions are now very questionable. We are in what I would consider uncharted waters. Having received...

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2018: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to talk on this very important matter. These measures will hurt all the small fishermen. The Minister has said that it will only affect the bigger trawlers but it will hurt small fishermen in Castletownbere, all along Berehaven, down into Dingle and Cahirciveen, up the Kenmare river, Rossdohan, Blackwater and Tahilla. The same law will apply to all those...

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2018: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is an unfair system and I do not like to see that smile on the face of the Minister. We are talking about people who are out on the sea. Their lives are in danger most of the time, while they are trying to eke a very difficult living, dealing with the elements most of the time. It is wrong to think that small infringements by these people will be dealt with via a statutory instrument....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Ceol in Éirinn: Plé (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome all the people who gave us such a wonderful presentation, especially Mr. Ó Murchú, whom I have known for many years and who was a great friend of my father. They did many great things together. I am proud that my father was, as Mr. Ó Murchú said, chairman of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann in Kerry for five years. I am proud that we had seven...

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to again raise the lack of funding and staff to provide an adequate home help service in Kerry, which has been promised. I have raised this issue since I came into this House over two years ago. All that people are getting when they reach 80 or 85 years of age is five hours a week. Is this fair? There are 168 hours in the week and to be given just five hours a week is miserly....

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is part of what we see here today. The Taoiseach and the Government have little regard for small babies and I suppose they have less for elderly people. That is what is wrong and it is why people are not getting the satisfaction or getting the due regard they are entitled to.

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are all the one now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses. I must concur with Senator Murnane-O'Connor who raised the HAP cap. The cap has been set at €575 in County Kerry. People can appeal and, if lucky, the threshold will be raised by 20%. However, rents around Killarney have increased to €1,000, €1,200 or €1,500 and €2,000 and the HAP payment in no way meets the needs of many people...