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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...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: Give me just a minute and I will finish, as it has-----

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

Danny Healy-Rae: The scheme has a bearing on this issue. Funding from purchases accrued to the local authority, which allowed the authority to do up vacant houses, or voids as they are called. However, that is not happening now as it used to previously, which is having an adverse effect on the housing list. I thank the Chairman.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: No.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can our little country really afford another layer of bureaucracy, in light of the HSE and other such bodies that do not seem to be accountable to anybody making serious decisions? If they were positive decisions, we would be glad, but sadly they are having very negative impacts on society and they do not seem to be accountable, especially the HSE, to anyone for what they are not doing. ...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Most likely they will not be better than the Chief Justice-----

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----the President of the Court of Appeal, the President of the High Court, the President of the Circuit Court or the President of the District Court.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Those people could never come up to that level or have that amount of experience.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is nothing to be laughed at anyway.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Some people -----

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: No, this is something different.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry, a Cheann Comhairle, but that is the truth. It is happening behind the scenes. This is why I am extremely worried about what is going on.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am concerned that we are undoing a system that has served this country well for more than 100 years just to satisfy one Minister who is supporting the Government. It is about keeping him on side in order that he will continue to support the Government. He has been promoting this proposal for many years even before he was elected to this Dáil. It is clear that our Judiciary has been...

Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too ask the Government to bring some common sense to our Garda vetting regime. Some might say I have a conflict of interest because I have an old bus and my drivers have to comply with Garda vetting guidelines. The escort on a bus might be vetted by the Garda to mind the children on the bus but he or she must be vetted again if he or she wants to drive the bus. Transport services are...

Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is absolutely ridiculous. If a person has been vetted by the Garda once, it should last for five years at least, or until the need arises to vet him or her again.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The coalition is on.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Fianna Fáil for bringing this motion forward, which is very important, even though we have already spoken many times in the House highlighting different aspects and the measures that could and should be taken to alleviate the housing problems we have. I support the motion for the provision of affordable houses to buy or to rent. It is a very laudable idea. There are many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Review of Programmes of the Department of Rural and Community Development: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: People are having to leave the country.

Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad the Labour Party is now waking up to this problem but it was in power with Fine Gael for five years. People are going blind and have gone blind on this and the previous Government's watch because of delays in being treated for cataracts. The aforementioned survey refers to waiting times of between 28 months and five years but there are people in Kerry and west Cork who have been...