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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 324. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment in University Hospital Kerry. [58065/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 335. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for surgery will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58094/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (25 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 374. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the amendments that have been made to the proposed Bill to prohibit fur farming (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58064/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (25 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 375. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if snails that are used in snail farming in Ireland are classed as an animal (details supplied); if so, the reason they cannot be classed as shellfish as in other European Union countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58091/21]

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: After one of the longest lockdowns anywhere in the world, compulsory mask-wearing for almost 22 months and the highest vaccination rates anywhere, why are Covid numbers so high right now? So far, neither the Government nor the NPHET experts have answered this question in a truthful and sincere manner. The Government was given time and space, through lockdowns and restrictions on people's...

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will share time with Deputy Collins. I welcome the opportunity to make a contribution on Second Stage of this Bill. The reason we, as a State, are introducing this legislation is because Ireland has had a potentially illegally constituted Marine Casualty Investigation Board for some time. This Bill seeks to rectify the situation following the embarrassing judgment of the Court of Justice...

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I appreciate very much the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I understand I have three minutes.

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I would like to remind people that I respect all religions and none. I really mean that. Regardless of whether some people hate it, we are predominantly a Catholic country. I am very proud and glad of the influence that religion, including the Catholic religion, has had on all of our lives over the years. I thank people in the religious sector for the contribution they have made to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Industry (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State very much. Could I ask her, her Department and the Government to use their discretion in the same way as it has been used in France? I would call it a matter of using common sense. Having looked at a snail and a cow, could the Minister of State please tell me what the comparison is? To me, there is a fair difference. The Minister of State's four-minute...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Industry (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and her office for kindly picking me and allowing me the opportunity to raise this matter. I thank the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, for being present to deal with this important issue. I am glad to say that I speak on behalf of snail farmers throughout the country and I wish to highlight their concerns. Not many people may realise that a snail is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that are being taken to make the system for a person renewing their driver licence more user friendly; if there are plans to have this done online instead of the person having to present themselves to an NDLS centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57940/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 221. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a hearing aid by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57942/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 222. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a general practitioner service in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58022/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the status of surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58035/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the difference between parlour washing and soiled water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57764/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Governor of the Central Bank and Dr. Cassidy for being here this evening. It is important to have this type of engagement and I appreciate their time, as do all the other members. As a small businessperson, as well as a politician, I like to think that I and my other colleagues are acutely attuned to the world of finance and the different pressures and complexities that it...

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister will not like to be told that Moneypoint and Tarbert power stations have had to reopen. Why did they have to open? The Minister did everything he could to shut them down. It was part of Green Party policy, the same as doing away with a proposed liquefied natural gas, LNG, project. The Minister shut that down. These stations had to open in spite of him and we would be in the...

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: Will the Minister wake up and admit that? I would like him to answer that question when he is responding later. I will be listening very intently to what he says. He should answer the people and tell them that his failed policies were going to result in Ireland being shut down for electricity. Some people received redundancies, or were on pensions retired at home, and they got the call...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: At the moment it is your party.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 419. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57053/21]