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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...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: KWD also provides a county clean up day which it operates free of charge. Everything that is collected by voluntary groups is heaped up in different towns and villages and it collects it and deals with it. We thank it very much for that. Kerry County Council got out of waste collecting a number of years ago. Since then, KWD and others have operated a very good service and we have no...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: If we go back a short time -----

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

Danny Healy-Rae: -----when the local authorities were collecting the waste, some Minister took away the county councils' role in waste services and handed it over to management. Even then they did not make a success of it.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: Sorry, Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many months ago, Kerry Co-op shareholders got savage bills from the Revenue Commissioners. Subsequently the Revenue Commissioners came before the Oireachtas agriculture committee and gave an undertaking to facilitate a test case. The shareholders are ready and have a client ready to go forward for a test case but the Revenue Commissioners are stalling the deal and they are not responding or...

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Revenue Commissioners promised us at the committee meeting they would respond and facilitate a test case.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (29 Jun 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 193. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the HSE community ophthalmic scheme. [30606/17]

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was amazed to hear Deputy O'Dowd say he was unhappy with the system when there was an adjudication in his own case going back a number of years. I am wondering why he wants to change the system that has served him so well. This Bill proposes a lay majority on the appointments commission, which will comprise seven lay people, three judges, one Attorney General and two representatives of...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why change the system?

European Council: Statements (28 Jun 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is what was not spoken about at the meeting that concerns me. As I said previously, the decrease in the value of sterling is seriously impacting on small businesses right around the country who are exporting to Britain and the North of Ireland. Such people are experiencing a reduction in income. That issue and the impact of Brexit that is already being felt must be highlighted to the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Much has been said about the provision of housing but there are blockages caused by the Department. In the context of grant aid for the elderly, the age was increased to 66 years when, previously, people in their 50s were considered eligible to apply. People are presenting now but there is no grant to cover them. If one is 50 years of age or over, it is unlikely that one will get a job if...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: What happens to these people is that if they cannot get the schemes to work for them, they go on the council housing list and add to the numbers on it.

Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to talk about the return of town councils, which did great work on behalf of the people, residents and businesses in many towns around the country. I thank the former members and management in the town councils of Killarney, Tralee and Listowel, who did great work in building up their towns to the great places they are today, providing the basic infrastructure such...