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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: What the farmers get is compensation and we make no apologies for saying that. It is compensation, not a gift.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: And because Dublin traffic is clogged, it took me as long to get from Kildare to the Dáil as it took me to get from Kilgarvan to Kildare.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Keep at it. Keep bringing them in to Dublin and keep an empty rural Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: The hills could be burned. The hills in those places were being burned before-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----and all the birds that the witness is talking about were there at that time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Is the witness saying the farmers should not get the payments as compensation for not being paid properly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Is Mr. Foulkes aware of the damage that seagulls, grey crows, magpies, mink, badgers, pine martins and rats are doing to ground nesting birds, and is that being tackled at all? I do not hear anything about it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Deputy Michael Collins has told me to ring him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (29 Nov 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Incoming.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses today. I thank the representatives of the IFA and Irish Natura & Hill Farmers Association for their comments, fair requests and understanding of the situation on the ground. I welcome Mr. Fogarty but I certainly do not welcome his comments as they are not helpful to the farming community, wider public or, indeed, the birds or wildlife he says he is trying to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: If burning was left until 15 April, the green grass growing underneath when the older stuff is burnt off would ensure less harm is done to the ground because it would not be burned. I know that because I am a farmer. I have to survive in a severely handicapped area and there are many more like me. Burning growth is the only way of getting rid of it. Green growth helps to ensure less harm...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: One thing I can tell the Deputy is that a young fellow in Killorglin was stopped from doing his apprenticeship owing to blackguarding based on the suggestion that a provisional driver cannot drive unaccompanied. That is what the individual Mr. Canney referred to did, in case he is defending him in any way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: That is what they have achieved.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: On page 108 of A Programme for a Partnership Government, it is acknowledged that agriculture is the heartbeat of rural Ireland. I am concerned that farmers supply to the food chain through multinational supermarkets which, because we have lost so many grocers and small shops, are gaining a monopoly in the market. The consumer will have to pay what these multinational supermarkets demand....
- Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: They are dictating what the farmers get for their produce.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Action Plan for Rural Development: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the extra funding provided for local improvement schemes this year. It is a positive although it came very late. The fact is the local authority could not spend it in the time it had to do so. The most recent allocation was announced a week ago. In fairness, the local authority could not accept the amount it received because it could not physically get the work done in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Action Plan for Rural Development: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: We are thankful for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Action Plan for Rural Development: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I no longer pay attention to figures because we have been promised this amount and that amount for the past three or four years but nothing has been delivered. We had a perfect model for delivering the Leader programme but now there are more hoops to jump through and hurdles to be crossed. I am sceptical the new model will see the programme working in the way it previously worked. Why try...
- Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I may deviate a bit from what is in the Bill, but my points apply to whether people receive social welfare, and I need to highlight something which is ridiculous. We all encourage people to start working when they are young, because if they develop a work ethic when they are young they tend to continue with it. However, the way the Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, grant is set up at...
- Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Before the controversy over emails in the Department of Justice and Equality there was a proposal to reopen six rural Garda stations. That commitment is certainly in the programme for Government. The Taoiseach has said there is a proposal to open three Garda stations in Dublin but Dublin is not rural. In light of the level of rural crime, I ask the Taoiseach to reopen a Garda station on...