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Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I sympathise with all the families who have lost loved ones due to drink-driving. I do not condone and never will condone drink-driving but I support the right of people right around rural Ireland to have a pint and a half and not lose their licence because of that. I travelled for four hours this morning to get here from Kilgarvan and it will be the same journey back. I would travel much...

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The programme for Government promised a fair and equitable health service for all. On 30 November, however, people suffering pain were dealt an awful blow when lidocaine patches, also known as Versatis patches, were withdrawn from coverage under the medical card scheme. The patches cost up to €150 per month to purchase privately. Was this change ordered by the HSE or the Government?...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I understand pensions are being paid to people who live abroad. That is fine, because people worked in this country and made the payments which entitled them to receive pensions. Is that retrospective? If people from Ireland worked abroad are they paid pensions when they return home? Fair is fair. If we are paying people in other countries we need to be sure that other countries are...

Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I offer my sympathy and condolences to the parents and brother of the late Denise Crowley who tragically lost her life in Glenflesk village last Friday evening. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, is progressing a road traffic Bill through the Dáil. He says it is for the safety of road users rather than making a name for himself. However, I ask...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the ICSFA, the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland, BirdWatch Ireland and the Hedge Laying Association of Ireland. I want to talk about roadside hedge cutting. Many people in rural Ireland, including me, believe that roadside hedges should be cut all year round for the safety of road users. There is no problem with restrictions inside ditches. The countryside is available...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: What the farmers get is compensation and we make no apologies for saying that. It is compensation, not a gift.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: And because Dublin traffic is clogged, it took me as long to get from Kildare to the Dáil as it took me to get from Kilgarvan to Kildare.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Keep at it. Keep bringing them in to Dublin and keep an empty rural Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The hills could be burned. The hills in those places were being burned before-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----and all the birds that the witness is talking about were there at that time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is the witness saying the farmers should not get the payments as compensation for not being paid properly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is Mr. Foulkes aware of the damage that seagulls, grey crows, magpies, mink, badgers, pine martins and rats are doing to ground nesting birds, and is that being tackled at all? I do not hear anything about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Deputy Michael Collins has told me to ring him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Incoming.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses today. I thank the representatives of the IFA and Irish Natura & Hill Farmers Association for their comments, fair requests and understanding of the situation on the ground. I welcome Mr. Fogarty but I certainly do not welcome his comments as they are not helpful to the farming community, wider public or, indeed, the birds or wildlife he says he is trying to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: If burning was left until 15 April, the green grass growing underneath when the older stuff is burnt off would ensure less harm is done to the ground because it would not be burned. I know that because I am a farmer. I have to survive in a severely handicapped area and there are many more like me. Burning growth is the only way of getting rid of it. Green growth helps to ensure less harm...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: One thing I can tell the Deputy is that a young fellow in Killorglin was stopped from doing his apprenticeship owing to blackguarding based on the suggestion that a provisional driver cannot drive unaccompanied. That is what the individual Mr. Canney referred to did, in case he is defending him in any way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is what they have achieved.

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: On page 108 of A Programme for a Partnership Government, it is acknowledged that agriculture is the heartbeat of rural Ireland. I am concerned that farmers supply to the food chain through multinational supermarkets which, because we have lost so many grocers and small shops, are gaining a monopoly in the market. The consumer will have to pay what these multinational supermarkets demand....

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: They are dictating what the farmers get for their produce.