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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have benefited a lot from the witnesses' attendance here today. As Ms Anne Fitzgerald mentioned, the request for multi-annual community support and funding is vital. The witnesses explained that it is no bother to get projects going or to get the building up but the issue is sustaining the service. We have learned from this meeting today and we will have to fight for funding to ensure...

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Promises were made in the programme for Government that in light of the fact that many rural Garda stations were closed, policing in rural areas would not be compromised. However, we find the Killarney division of An Garda Síochána is very short on numbers. Indeed Ballyduff Garda station, which is located in a town that has experienced of robberies, which was never signalled to be...

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It was promised that rural policing would not be compromised by the closure of Garda stations. Why is the Government not giving the numbers required to the Killarney division?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister referred to planning guidelines. The Minister of State, Deputy Michael Ring, said at another committee recently that the planning guidelines will have to be reviewed. The Minister should be aware that in urban areas there has been a prohibition in the county development plan which disallows people from urban areas to go just outside to the suburbs or to what is called areas...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is an addendum. The national secondary road between Killarney and Barraduff is a typical example of a location where people cannot get planning permission because of a stipulation that the then Minister, Deputy Varadkar, put in place whereby no access can be granted to a national secondary road. There is no new access for family members or anybody. That is despite the fact that at...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is okay. If we are discussing planning, I am pointing out that there are planning problems in Kerry as well. Those issues must be addressed. We must review the planning guidelines in those areas as well.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (11 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will review the tenant purchase scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17558/17]

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, congratulate Deputy Catherine Martin for tabling this important motion. She has put a lot of work into it. It is a great evening to be an elected Member of this Dáil given the unanimity on the motion. The birth of a baby, whether born prematurely or at the correct time, is a joy and a wonder. It is a treasure for the parents to see a young baby come into the world. Today is...

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Nor the hare.

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government and the Minister for Education and Skills promised to recruit more than 2,000 young teachers this year. However, I have read in the newspapers that retired teachers are being hired. I ask that all the young qualified teachers be taken on first.

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Another category of young teachers affected are those who must travel many miles from their homes to get employment in other areas. I want to make sure these young teachers get jobs nearer home rather than hiring retired teachers.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will not stay long but I will be here a while anyway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister wondered why the number of fatalities increased last year. The massive increase in the volume of traffic on our roads has certainly contributed to that. The longer distances people now have to drive to work also contributes to it. Our roads are not adequate for the volume of traffic or the size of vehicle using them at present. Bridges in many parts of the country were built...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: For those 35 fatalities, how sure is the Minister that the reason for the accident was the pint or the pint and a half and that it was not some pedestrian who fell out on the road in front of the car and was lying in the road on the other side of the bend when the car came around? How sure is the Minister that it was not the black ice that caught the fellow only after drinking one pint and...

Brexit: Statements (4 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are told that the Taoiseach is respected in European circles. We ask him to do his level best to ensure he gets the best deal for the country.

Brexit: Statements (4 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this very serious and important matter facing our country. At a presentation in Buswells, IBEC informed us this will seriously affect the regions, as it calls them - I call them rural areas and the farming community - but it may not affect areas around Dublin as much. As Deputy Fitzmaurice said, I do not know how we can avoid a hard border, but I...

Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is in the programme for Government; the Taoiseach knows more about it.

Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: That was about a different thing.