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Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The vulture fund has told them they must get out. That is very wrong. I know of other cases where the people who got into trouble are prepared to pay back what they owe, with interest, and the vulture fund will not take it. As Deputy Mattie McGrath said, the vulture fund must have favourites or an idea that it can squeeze more money out of somebody else, but that is so wrong. We talk...

Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: In a short space of time, these principal contractors are back in action again. Much more needs to be done to rectify the wrongs that are being meted out to small suppliers, small operators, sole traders and families that work together to try to keep their household going because they get left behind when these fellows decide to pull the plug. They have everything organised, hid away,...

Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have to begin with the most important thing that is affecting so many small companies throughout the country. Firs, however, I must declare that I have an interest in a family plant hire firm. I must write it up and leave it here because I seem to be telling this story every day, and several times on some days. My brother also has a small shop, so I have to declare those interests. Small...

Shortage of Teachers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a scarcity of teachers all of a sudden. It has something to do with the postgraduate courses which are now two years instead of one. The cost then deters students because it costs around €15,000 to do it. Take the example of a young fellow from Kilgarvan or Kenmare, and I know one to whom this has happened. It is impossible to do the course without having a car since part...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I declare that I have an interest in a family plant hire firm. The programme for Government states that, as far as possible, we are to create and protect jobs. However, principal contractors are going bust and leaving many subcontractors without payments which were due. That means they go out of business in turn. It seems continuously to happen that after a few months the principal...

Report on the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is so much available for women and we should put more supports in place for them, if there is not already enough available by way of education, counselling or financial help to ensure they will be properly looked after because the other aspect is that many women who have an abortion are never the same again, but we do not hear about this. They have many problems, including...

Report on the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sure the Ceann Comhairle will appreciate that it is somewhat hard to start off again.

Report on the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I reiterate that I firmly believe that life begins when a baby begins to grow inside a woman. I believe it is a crime to take a life. Let us go back to what abortion is. People should educate themselves that abortion is stopping the right of a little baby to live or continue his journey into this life from the mother's womb. I was absolutely disgusted and so upset when I heard the way...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018 Second Stage: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am living over the pub.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018 Second Stage: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I appreciate that many tenants are in a desperate way. Aside from the cost of rents, landlords are terminating tenancies for different reasons. Many are terminating tenancies - we have to take them at their word - so that family members can move in to the houses. In other cases, where landlords cannot meet their outgoings, the houses have to be sold. They are entitled to take back the...

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raise the matter of GLAS payments to farmers. Farmers are hit two ways because they are not being paid for GLAS. One of the scheme's requirements is that farmers may not cut their meadows or cut silage until the month of July. What happened last year was that farmers along the west who were in GLAS obeyed the rules but were unable to cut their fodder when they went to do so because the...

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Where will this be dealt with because it is totally unfair?

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will he please come into this Chamber and explain what he was at? He reached across and pressed the Minister, Deputy Zappone's, button.

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: She was also paired, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is very serious, and everyone is taking a very dim view of it.

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to ask the Taoiseach if it is correct and allowable that one Minister can press another Minister's vote button. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, pressed the button of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, during the vote for his Bill last Thursday.

Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Kerry will accommodate many millions more.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is a very serious, contentious matter. This debate is being watched and listened to all around the country and beyond. Since I came up here almost two years ago, it has dominated many days and weeks in this Chamber. There have been many discussions about it. Many people have different views and are able to articulate them in this Chamber, the Oireachtas committee and the Citizens'...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Those payments are compensation for not being paid properly for their produce.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am reminding the Government that it has to keep this in mind at the negotiations in Europe.