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Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: In light of the revelations that the breathalyser figures are incorrect, I call on the Government to withdraw the Road Traffic Bill before the Dáil. The Government proposes to further penalise drivers caught with a blood alcohol concentration of between 50mg and 80mg per 100ml by talking their licences and putting them off the road. This will have a devastating effect in rural Ireland....

Money Advice and Budgeting Service and Citizens Information Centres: Motion (28 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too thank Deputy Willie O'Dea for giving us the opportunity to talk on this very important matter this evening. People with mortgage and financial problems relied on MABS. The local offices provided really valuable help and service to vulnerable people at pivotal times in their lives. The same is true of the Citizens Information centres, dealing with all the new rules and regulations for...

Money Advice and Budgeting Service and Citizens Information Centres: Motion (28 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: These vital services were invaluable to poor people who badly needed help and advice. What is the Minister trying to do, keep people in the dark and not let them know what they are entitled to? Shame on him if that is what he is doing. That is what it looks like to me.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I did not come to this meeting to bash or to thrash anybody. I am absolutely delighted to get the opportunity to put questions to these gentlemen on infrastructure projects. First, members have attended presentations in Buswells Hotel by organisations such as IBEC. In the view of IBEC, Ireland has the lowest level of infrastructure per capitathan in any other country in Europe. I want to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Chairman.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: We recognise that we have a valuable outfit in Castleisland under the stewardship of Paul Neary and others. We are very grateful for their expertise and knowledge over the years and we want to recognise that. They are a powerful unit. The witnesses said that the Killarney bypass has been suspended because there are financial constraints in the country. There were two parts to that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (22 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, and in terms of the N22, many parts of that route are cracking, between Killarney and the county boundary. What is going to be done to save the infrastructure? It has been there for almost 20 years now without much maintenance. It needs to get attention and funding.

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The programme for Government makes specific reference to the farming community, farmers' income and support for the family farm. In 2009, the disadvantaged payment made to farmers in the least productive land was cut from €4,400 to €3,400. Farmers may now only claim for 34 ha. rather than 45 ha. The new ANC payment rate as well as how and where it is paid will be decided...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roadworthiness Testing (22 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will desist from bringing in NCT testing for tractors capable of doing 40 kilometres an hour and less (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14014/17]

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I also wish to be associated with the expressions of sympathy to the family of Martin McGuinness. He did a great deal of good for many people. I was glad to have met him again recently. It seems like it was only the other day that he attended a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts. He came across the hallway, shook hands with me, smiled and congratulated me on getting elected and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Boundaries (21 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 428. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the boundary extension from County Waterford into south Kilkenny (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13260/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (21 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 892. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no physiotherapist in a school (details supplied) since September 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13490/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (21 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding for local improvement schemes for rural roads in view of the fact that the Minister for State with responsibility for regional economic development has offered to contribute funding from the CLÁR programme for these roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12918/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: House building and the provision of housing for the homeless are some of the main aims of the Government. Why is the Government, including the Minister, not dealing with the fact that the tenant purchase scheme is not working? Some 80% of applicants do not qualify. Clearly, the scheme is not working. The money that used to be derived from purchases used to go towards repairing the voids...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The witnesses before us today have outlined exactly the concerns that I have, as a public representative in a rural area. Is this a direct attempt to prevent poor people from getting information about their entitlements? Is that what this is about? Is that what the Government is about? I can see, and am not afraid to say it, that the CIB would not be doing what it is doing without...

Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will give my view, regardless of whether it is the view of all the people in Kilgarvan. I am always of the opinion that when most people get up in the morning they do so with good intentions to do well for themselves and everybody else. Likewise, I believe every Member elected to this Chamber tries to do their best to represent the people who elected them and, indeed, the people who did...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too welcome the Bill to ensure children who are in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance receive a medical card automatically. It is well known that parents with responsibility for a very sick child, who will be sick for many years, have enough to do and have other problems to get over every day, when they are landed with this noose around their necks. Why has this measure taken so...

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too wish to support this motion and the call for more psychologists to assess the needs of children in order that their needs are properly addressed. I call for more transparency when funding is being awarded under the DEIS programme. I am aware of a situation in a very large school in Killarney, St. Oliver's, in which there are huge numbers of children who come from many different...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about an announcement made by his Minister of State with responsibility for people with disabilities. When Deputy Finian McGrath went down to Kerry, he announced €30 million extra in funding for services for people, specifically children, with disabilities.

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes. However, across the road from St. Mary of the Angels, which he visited, is a school for severely handicapped children, St. Francis Special School. Is the Taoiseach aware that there has been no physiotherapist there for 50 children-----