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Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jun 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will take it.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to speak here today to raise the unfairness in the fair deal scheme as it is currently being applied to family farms and small family businesses where the owners live in or above the small shop, post office, pub or other similar scenario. Justice delayed is justice denied. The farming community and these small businesses that I am talking about have been discriminated against on a...

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish the Taoiseach and his wife and family all the best for the future. We will still look forward to seeing him around Rathanane, Kilcummin and Killarney. While the Taoiseach did not answer every question I asked him, he was a master of answering other questions besides the ones he was asked. We have five Ministers in the Department of Health. A group of people protested outside the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: When will we get a chance to address what happened at the last meeting, where the Chairman took it upon himself to represent all of the committee by doing what he did?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Chairman told-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: At what particular time? I cannot stay here all the time and I want to be there for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There are two parts to this meeting, session A and session B. Is it after the first session?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the officials for their attendance. I raised planning on the Order of Business, both today and yesterday, with the Taoiseach in the Chamber. The witnesses state in their document that the granting of planning permission in rural areas is one of their roles or they are responsible for whether or not we can have it. At the outset, I have to say we in Kerry have a great local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: No planning would be worse.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I urge the working group not to forget the local fellas that live in the area that has been deemed to suffer intense urban pressure. Such people are denied planning even though they have been brought up and reared in a house located in the area but, unfortunately, do not have enough land to build a house. The rules stipulate that planning permission can only be granted to family members in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Department to remember that fact. The rule has hurt many people in many towns. The matter needs to be addressed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I appreciate that. I want to respond to Ms Alma Walsh on the disintegration of villages. I would like to take her to a lot of areas where villages are disintegrating and do not have a population around them. I could show her all of the empty houses that people left. As I said, there are 24 in one townland and 16 in another. One cannot get planning permission in those places now. We are...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I yesterday asked the Taoiseach about impediments and blockages to housing in terms of people being refused planning permission to build houses for themselves. Many people are now being blocked at a pre-planning stage because of designations in the county development plans. There are areas of intense urban pressure, stronger areas and weaker areas. There could be a young man in an area...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many of them are.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Homes for people.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Local authorities are reflecting the planning guidelines given to them by the Government.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Local authorities are acting illegally.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government must change the guidelines it is giving to the local authorities. That is where the Taoiseach is wrong.

Commission of Investigation (National Asset Management Agency) Order 2017: Motion (23 May 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to talk on this matter. I am not sure what the proposed commission of investigation will achieve. It is too late. It is like closing the stable door when the horse has gone down the road. We, as a country, have had many tribunals, inquiries and reports and people out there are very sceptical about what they have achieved. There will be jurisdiction problems with...