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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]

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask that urgent action be taken to ensure young people go into trades through apprenticeships given the deficit that exists. Will college placements be made available in a timely fashion and closer to home? Will additional night classes be introduced locally to facilitate young people who wish to go into the trades? There is an urgent need for blocklayers, plasterers, electricians,...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: Problems exist with the college placements. For example, one young fellow from Glenflesk has to wait approximately 18 months for a college placement. He and others are finding this disheartening, resulting in some of them giving up on their course, moving jobs and even emigrating. Can something be done to speed up this waiting time, especially in view of the fact that the country is crying...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I asked that question because I thought evening provision could help. It is a fact that these young fellas are giving up. I have even had employers on to me asking what is wrong and why college placements cannot be hurried on because this is delaying their apprenticeship and making their course way longer. Employers need apprentices. This fella in Glenflesk was told a month ago he will be...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to say a few words about the cost of electricity. Of course, I have often said before that the closure of Shannonbridge and Lanesborough power stations has resulted in the cost of electricity going up day after day. We have no control anymore because we have lost our main source of energy. When the wind does not blow, we need to have something. This means...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: God almighty, do the Government members have any hearts at all? Will the Government give back some of this money and, in the first place, stop charging the amounts being charged, because people just cannot bear it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Taoiseach very much for his reply but I ask again if he will do something about the clause on significant urban generated pressure that is denying so many people planning permission. There people are asking for nothing only fair play and they are not getting it at present. They will build the house, pay for it and create employment. They will do all that themselves. We have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get an opportunity to say a few words about the late, great Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh. He was a great Kerryman who had a unique voice and created excitement in all the games he commentated on. It was better to listen when he commentated on the radio than to watch the game on the television because there was more drama. He created excitement and he knew so much...