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Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Follow the wind.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: That is what is wrong with Sinn Féin at the moment.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is a bit rich for the Deputy to tell me I am unkind. She would not say hello to a person when she would meet them.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Anything I will say is absolutely nothing personal against the Minister of State. She is an excellent person and I admire her very much on a personal basis. In the honour of God, however, has the Government gone simple or what? Look at what it is doing. The Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill aims to enhance and strengthen the enforcement and...

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I do not care if there are parties here that are grumbling or something. If they are not interested in work or businesses-----

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am talking about keeping people in business. There are politicians who think there is something dirty about business and something wrong with people who get up in the morning, whether they are families or individuals, and who get out and create employment and want to make a profit and pay tax on it. Is there something wrong with that? There absolutely is not, and I do not like to hear...

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am very glad that the Minister of State will, but when I see more regulation, regulatory provisions and talking about things-----

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: All right. What measures will be put in place to support companies, especially micro businesses, in implementing the new provisions? Will the Minister of State answer that? Will there be financial or technical assistance available or cybersecurity measures? How will the Government ensure that the move towards digital corporate governance will not compromise cybersecurity? There are a...

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----but I will actually let you off that-----

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----because I want to concentrate on keeping business open.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Does the Minister of State realise how many small business are going? I am so grateful to the big businesses and the tech companies that come here and create massive wealth. We saw what was recently got from Apple, even though the Government was not looking for it. It got it, and I am glad that it has it. It will spend it well, I hope. I hope it will not go on a bike shed, or a second...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: While I appreciate that we are debating the Health Information Bill 2024, I must informed that House that we have just returned from a presentation about scoliosis patients. Given that heard children of 14 years of age saying that they have been left behind by the State, it would be very wrong to leave that room and not come into the Chamber and acknowledge what is going on in that regard....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister is always welcome to County Kerry and so is everybody else. I ask that they please bring their money there and spend it. We could do with it. In spite of everything the Minister said, there has been an overall cut of €200 million in our roads budget. Those projects were shovel ready. The land acquisition and everything was in place. They were ready to go to tender...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Back in July, Kerry County Council was notified that Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, is undertaking a review of the planned expenditure for 2024 against the overall budget for national roads, active travel schemes and greenways. Pending completion of this review, it requested that the council not proceed to tender on four projects. This money was allocated to County Kerry. However,...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Regional Group for tabling this important motion. We in the Rural Independent Group tabled a motion before, where we were adamant that the means test should be abolished. It has no place in a modern society because many of the people who are giving care are giving up other employment. They are not earning somewhere else because all they have to rely on is the carer's allowance....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 94. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide extra funding to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38130/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 124. To ask the Minister for Health if there is currently any campaign running with regard to pre-conception care (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38138/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 125. To ask the Minister for Health to provide funding to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38142/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to support students (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38132/24]

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: To break away from the subject for two seconds and to break the ice a small bit, I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for her direct work on, interest in and genuine concern for Ocean View nursing home in County Kerry. I will not go into detail but just wanted to thank her on the record. I acknowledge and appreciate her genuine interest – I really do – and so does...