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Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is promised legislation that we protect farmers' incomes. That is promised legislation. I can vouch for that.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Number 1. The Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, negotiations are about to take place. There are rumours that part-time farmers will not get payments from Europe. I remind the Minister and the Government that 80% of farmers nowadays are part-time.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It has to be remembered in these negotiations that these payments are-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: No. These payments-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are protecting the farmers' income.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: These payments are compensation for not being paid properly for their product.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am asking the Minister to meet representatives of Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the local authority. I am asking him to intervene.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is what I am asking for. We are elected to here by the people to raise these issues.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raise serious road safety issues on the N22 primary road leading into Killarney. I will start with an issue in Glenflesk village located on the N22. On dark Saturday nights, people attending a church located at the junction of the R570 and N22 must manoeuvre back and forth across a road that traffic may travel along at 100 km/h. I ask the Minister to take note of the points I raise and...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: There have also been several accidents, including one recent fatality at another junction on the N22 where the Lewis Road meets the bypass leaving Killarney.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is a very serious issue.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: All we are asking is for signs to be changed at these locations. Will the Government do that? It could not cost much to change the signs on both sides of these junctions. I ask the Government to do so.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: For poor Denise Crowley, a lovely girl, it is too late. I will tell the Minister what has been happening. When we tabled motions in Kerry County Council we were told that responsibility lay with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII. However, TII claims these matters are the responsibility of local authorities. I want the Government to intervene and make someone responsible for doing this...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government has a Minister with responsibility for transport. He should come down to Kerry to look at these places because I am fed up with dealing with the issue.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister should be fair. I have been asking about this issue for years.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have a point of order.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am raising the matter of the empty benches where the Government Deputies sit and beside me here where the Fianna Fáil Members sit. The two largest parties in the country, which have enjoyed support from around rural Ireland for decades, or for a hundred years-----

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am calling a quorum. Where are they? This is an important matter that is affecting all of rural Ireland.

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: In the programme for Government, there is an ambition that we would become a leader in the provision of a world-class education model. However, in recent times a retiring college professor or president said that college fees should be increased and that students should have to take out loans. This, again, will affect students from rural areas much harder than those from urban areas. I ask...