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Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018 Second Stage: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I appreciate that many tenants are in a desperate way. Aside from the cost of rents, landlords are terminating tenancies for different reasons. Many are terminating tenancies - we have to take them at their word - so that family members can move in to the houses. In other cases, where landlords cannot meet their outgoings, the houses have to be sold. They are entitled to take back the...

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raise the matter of GLAS payments to farmers. Farmers are hit two ways because they are not being paid for GLAS. One of the scheme's requirements is that farmers may not cut their meadows or cut silage until the month of July. What happened last year was that farmers along the west who were in GLAS obeyed the rules but were unable to cut their fodder when they went to do so because the...

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Where will this be dealt with because it is totally unfair?

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will he please come into this Chamber and explain what he was at? He reached across and pressed the Minister, Deputy Zappone's, button.

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: She was also paired, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is very serious, and everyone is taking a very dim view of it.

Order of Business (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to ask the Taoiseach if it is correct and allowable that one Minister can press another Minister's vote button. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, pressed the button of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Zappone, during the vote for his Bill last Thursday.

Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Kerry will accommodate many millions more.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is a very serious, contentious matter. This debate is being watched and listened to all around the country and beyond. Since I came up here almost two years ago, it has dominated many days and weeks in this Chamber. There have been many discussions about it. Many people have different views and are able to articulate them in this Chamber, the Oireachtas committee and the Citizens'...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Those payments are compensation for not being paid properly for their produce.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am reminding the Government that it has to keep this in mind at the negotiations in Europe.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is promised legislation that we protect farmers' incomes. That is promised legislation. I can vouch for that.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Number 1. The Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, negotiations are about to take place. There are rumours that part-time farmers will not get payments from Europe. I remind the Minister and the Government that 80% of farmers nowadays are part-time.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: It has to be remembered in these negotiations that these payments are-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: No. These payments-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are protecting the farmers' income.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: These payments are compensation for not being paid properly for their product.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am asking the Minister to meet representatives of Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the local authority. I am asking him to intervene.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is what I am asking for. We are elected to here by the people to raise these issues.

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raise serious road safety issues on the N22 primary road leading into Killarney. I will start with an issue in Glenflesk village located on the N22. On dark Saturday nights, people attending a church located at the junction of the R570 and N22 must manoeuvre back and forth across a road that traffic may travel along at 100 km/h. I ask the Minister to take note of the points I raise and...