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Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Will the Minister of State provide funding to local authorities and remove the shackles that have been imposed on them? The four stages of approval demanded by the Department take too long and funding is not filtering down to local authorities. It has been suggested that local authorities, including ours, are not able to build houses because they have...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is not.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The very minute the tenant is put out the door, the local authority has no further obligations to him or her.

Topical Issue Debate: Disease Incidence (27 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The figures that are being given out by the HSE are totally wrong. We know they are wrong because for the numbers they are saying that have Lyme disease, we have that many in Kerry already, not to mind the rest of the country. We have people from Rathmore, Killarney, Killorglin, Castleisland, Cordal, Duagh and many other parts of Kerry who are affected with this terrible disease. A young...

Topical Issue Debate: Disease Incidence (27 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The problem is with the person or people who wrote this reply for the Minister of State. The former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, in a reply to me, recognised that something had to be done to improve the service, medicine or whatever for these people. It was wrong to suggest there was something wrong in people's minds but this is what many of them were told. It has to be changed. How is it...

Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Since I was elected 18 months ago, several reports and many ideas have been put forward to deal with the homeless situation. During the summer, the new Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, suggested something be done around the fair deal scheme, where people in nursing homes would give up their homes to put people into them. The word CPO, compulsory purchase order, was put out there as well, and...

Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Therefore, what the Deputy is saying is that we should let the flood in the front door and out the back door.

Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. My time has been cut, but we will keep going anyway.

Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Charlie McConalogue for bringing this very important motion before the House tonight. He represents his people in Donegal. We all sympathise with those who have been adversely affected. Their lives have been turned upside down with what has happened. I also thank the Minister of State, Deputy Moran, for coming down to Kerry to visit the places that are in trouble there....

Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is blackmail and torturing people and it is ensuring-----

Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Let me have one more minute, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. They took my time.

Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: This has to be dealt with because it is manifesting right around the country. They are laying down the law that one must stay six inches up from the top of the water. Depending on the day that one looks at the river, the river could be two or three feet higher. Inland Fisheries Ireland must be brought to task or else-----

Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----the rest of the country will be flooded and we will all be flooded if this continues. I am asking the Minister of State to deal with this.

Flooding in County Donegal: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I would not like to deprive Deputy Ryan of anything.

Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: In the past 18 months, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae and I have consistently raised the issue of people on three and four year waiting lists for cataract procedures and teenagers waiting four or five years for orthodontic treatment. There are five Ministers with responsibility for health and any number of HSE managers who are being paid a fortune. It is difficult for people who are languishing...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration (21 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding VRT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39998/17]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It went out under the Minister's name. I am not blaming him, but his statement said that he was going to take people out of urban areas and take them out to rural areas to house them. I want him to tell me how many vacant houses or how many houses are ready for habitation in County Kerry which I represent. We do not have houses for the people we have on our own housing lists. Forget about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Report: Dr. Mary Murphy and Dr. Rory Hearne, NUI Maynooth (20 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Every day we hear figures of money being announced for housing here and there. Let us take Kerry, for example. Going back to sometime in late 2015, €62.5 million was announced for housing in Kerry. To date, we certainly have not got €10 million of that. In 2013, eight houses were to be built in Killarney. Four years later there has been much toing and froing between the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Report: Dr. Mary Murphy and Dr. Rory Hearne, NUI Maynooth (20 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes. Money is announced here every day but we cannot build houses if we do not give it out. The money is being held up by the Department. Does the Government have the money or not? These talking shops will build no houses if the Government and the Minister do not approve the funding and give the money to the local authorities. The local authorities were building houses before I came on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Report: Dr. Mary Murphy and Dr. Rory Hearne, NUI Maynooth (20 Sep 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Deputy O'Dowd said that the local authorities had lost their way and were not building houses. That is what I heard him saying and if anyone else heard something different-----