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Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: We need - this is directed at the Minister, Deputy Michael Ring-----

Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a need for a road to be built through the lands to ensure the safety of people accessing the bypass.

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There are a number of small things that could be done to help sort out much of the homelessness problem. Some genius decided that bedsits could not be used anymore, while fortunes are being paid to hotels to house people and people are still lying on the ground close to the hotel where I stay for two or three days every week. I am sure they would be much happier in a bedsit. I am not...

Rugby World Cup 2023 Bill 2017: Second Stage (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I also wish to support this Bill. I wish the Minister and the Irish Rugby Football Union, IRFU, the very best in their bid to host the Rugby World Cup in 2023. This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase the venues and the country all around the world, and the advertising of Ireland in this way will pay for the costs incurred and the staging of the event. It has been indicated that...

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for his response. He had some interesting answers, particularly regarding the issue of houses with stone walls. What I stated about it is a stipulation by our local authority and it said it was a Department rule. I will have to investigate that further. The housing aid for older people scheme is a great scheme and it had ensured that many elderly people...

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Acting Chairman.

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Acting Chairman was interested in the topic.

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Adaptation Grant Applications (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: This Topical Issue is about housing and the problems people are experiencing getting grants. It is the wish of the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and the Government that the social housing lists be reduced. This could be done if a number of things were rectified. To be eligible for grant aid from Kerry County Council a person must be 66 years of age. A...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Debt Servicing (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Ireland is a small country with a small population. We do not have oil wells or gold mines. It is the working people who are paying this debt. It was not the working people or the people of Ireland who caused the problem; it was the bondholders and the bankers. I ask the Minister to tell the ECB bankers that we will pay. Irish people have always paid their way. We cannot pay until we...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Debt Servicing (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 20. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will renegotiate the amount of debt Ireland has to repay with a view to reducing it; if he will seek an extension of the time period in which the debt must be repaid in view of the fact that it is unfair to ask this generation to shoulder the burden; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31625/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Debt Servicing (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will the Minister renegotiate the amount of debt Ireland has to repay with a view to reducing it? Will he seek an extension of the time period in which the debt must be repaid in view of the fact that it is unfair to ask this generation to shoulder the burden? All sections of our community are suffering because of this debt.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Debt Servicing (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for his reply. Last year, Greece paid €8 billion to service debts of €350 billion, while Ireland paid €7.5 billion to service debts of €214 billion. Why did it cost us almost as much as Greece to service €100 billion less? Middle-income earners cannot continue paying 51% or 52% tax. Services have been cut, including those for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preserving Ireland's Natural Heritage: Discussion (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome all the witnesses. I heard only a part of Mr. Lumley's contribution, but I will dwell solely on that because I certainly know what he and his organisation are about. I know the hurt and damage they have caused to people in rural Ireland over the years. They have prevented people getting planning permission. I can name two families that do not have a son or daughter living beside...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preserving Ireland's Natural Heritage: Discussion (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: We need to protect the people who are trying to put a roof over their heads. I want to address what this group of people have done in our county over the years. There's a McCarthy woman living in Shronebirrane, in Lauragh, and no one belonging to her can drive. Her son had to move into the town of Kenmare or perhaps further away. He was granted permission by Kerry County Council. His...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preserving Ireland's Natural Heritage: Discussion (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why do we do things like that to people who are the salt of the earth and who have held and maintained their farms and landholdings over the years since before An Taisce was formed? Local property owners inherited the land and fought hard to keep it. The witnesses have talked about people being prevented from cutting hedges along the roads. Do they realise that people's lives are in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preserving Ireland's Natural Heritage: Discussion (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have a couple of other things to address. We will protect the hen harriers but why has Government refused to compensate the farmers? We often hear of burglaries of houses when people are out of their houses but what is the story when the farm is taken from them completely and they are robbed in cold daylight? They are getting no compensation. They will not be allowed plant forestry in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preserving Ireland's Natural Heritage: Discussion (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will just say there are others. Mink are cleaning out or rivers. Why is An Taisce not saying anything about them? It is protecting them. There are seagulls and hawks which we cannot touch and they are picking all the eggs from the pheasants and preventing the pheasant and other shooting birds from prospering. Does Mr. Lumley and his organisation know the harm and damage they have done...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Preserving Ireland's Natural Heritage: Discussion (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I had to leave the committee meeting briefly because I had to speak in the Dáil. When I was going out the door, I heard Mr. Lumley talking about badgers and saying badgers had TB and he appeared to be worried about that. One does not get milk from badgers. Farmers cannot survive on badgers. Badgers spread TB to other animals. Farmers can be taken before the courts if they are found...

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: In the programme for Government, access to health care was promised for people who have illnesses. When one applies for a medical card at present, it is only dated from the date it is granted. I am asking that a medical card be made effective from the day the person applies for it. Those with serious illnesses, such as lyme disease, have to travel abroad to get their problems addressed and...

Waste Disposal: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. It is very unfair of some speakers to call waste collectors gougers. It is very unfair to paint them as gougers and to tar them all with the one brush. I will stand up for the waste collector we have in Kerry, KWD, which has serviced the people of our county and beyond for many years. I do not know what is happening in other counties but we do not have...