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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...

Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Housing is now a desperate crisis. The rent cap, put in place by the Government in areas of housing pressure, is not helping the market. It is driving landlords away from the provision of social housing and is driving them into the Airbnb business. I ask the Taoiseach not to proceed any further and not to designate any other areas in the State for rent caps. It is having an adverse effect...

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, well in her new role. We are sorry to lose her from her last Ministry because she had a lot of input into the fair deal scheme that we are trying to get for the farming community. She understood it well. We only hope that the new Minister of State will be as conversant with it as she was. We wish her all the very best for the future. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (21 Jun 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Deputy Michael Collins asked me to pass on his apologies. He is trying to make the meeting and will be here as soon as he can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (21 Jun 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very glad that Mr. McGuinness came in here. It is not an easy thing to do to come in and tell one's story like Mr. McGuinness has done. We greatly sympathise with him because we can understand greatly what is happening. Take our own Leader programme in Kerry. There were three excellent companies delivering the Leader programme. There was North and East Kerry Development, South Kerry...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The draft planning guidelines for wind turbines have been made available. Will these new guidelines apply to applications that have already been made? People in the Gneevgullia area, where there is a wind turbine application already in place, are saying that four times the height of a turbine is not enough distance to have between a dwelling and the turbine. In others words, the turbines...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing and Rental Market: Discussion (21 Jun 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Has it become apparent since the rent caps were put in place in Dublin and other places that landlords are making fewer units available for social housing? Has it driven them into the Airbnb market? I am being told it has. There has been a lot of criticism of landlords from many sectors, which they feel is unfair. All through the bad times and the tough times, they made units available...