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- 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.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Answer the question I asked.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: That is very unfair of the Taoiseach. He has made no attempt whatsoever to answer the question he was asked.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Pull out altogether-----
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Housing was supposed to be a priority for this Government. The housing crisis is getting worse. More and more people have to leave their homes. The banks are selling them. Landlords are selling houses. Bureaucracy and red tape are still holding up the building of local authority housing. The four-stage process demanded by the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local...
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: What will the Government do about this? What will it do about the Irish banks that are so slow to lend to small builders and developers? Without funding they cannot build houses.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Of course it is.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: It was supposed to be a priority for the Government and if not, it should give up.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (4 Apr 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: 614. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the assistance he will provide to a community in County Kerry to establish a fibre optic line from locations (details supplied) to benefit the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16030/17]
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I suppose there is no hope the Government will pay the farmers the GLAS payments.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: It is the order of business that they were to be paid.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: It is in the programme for Government to protect farmers' incomes. Over 4,500 farmers are still waiting to be paid.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: They were promised payment before the end of last year. It is next year's payment or last year's payment that they are now to be paid? I am asking the Government to give up the blackguarding and pay the people. If the Exchequer were owed revenue or income tax, it would have to be paid.
- Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: It is very difficult to know what is going on. The Government has stated it will accept refugees. I asked what agency will deal with the people involved and where they will be housed. It was stated that local authorities would be responsible for housing the refugees concerned. The local authority for which I worked for many years does not have the required houses, facility or staff to...