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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-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----since last September? This is in the programme for Government - children with disabilities.

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: In fairness, that is what the Minister of State announced below in Kerry, that there was €30 million extra for these services. At the same time, there has been no physiotherapist in the school across the yard from last September to date. That is not fair on those children and parents.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach did not answer my question seriously. I must point out that 41% of the economic activity in the country is taking place in Dublin. This means the remaining 59% is taking place throughout the rest of the country. As a man from the west and coming from County Mayo, which has the same topography as County Kerry, the Taoiseach should know well that the people of my county are...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It does not have the funding and it is not allowed to cut the hedges from February to September.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome Vera Twomey and her husband to the Gallery this afternoon. I am glad to get this opportunity to highlight the lack of provision of jobs, infrastructure and services in Kerry. We cannot attract jobs and investment into our county because we simply do not have proper access. We have been waiting for the Macroom bypass for more than 40 years. We do not have adequate broadband or...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will be giving it again there next week.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It was not you who repaired them.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I cannot support the Bill. However, I do not condemn the people who have put it before us; I just do not agree with their point of view. I have my own point of view and believe, as Deputy Michael Harty has said, that the mother's life is paramount and needs to be defended. However, I believe there are laws in the country good enough to protect the mother. I would be worthless in this...

Order of Business (7 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The people in rural Ireland are devastated with this news today. What is the Taoiseach going to say to Bank of Ireland, which is proposing to close one in every four bank branches in the country? Given the last Government and this Government supported this bank, is the Taoiseach going to allow it to do this again to the people in rural Ireland? It is the people in rural Ireland who will be...

Insurance Industry: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to talk about this issue. There has been a great deal of talk about the cost of insurance since I came to the House. Costs still have not been reduced. It is unbelievable to think that a perfectly good driver who is 70 years of age has had her insurance costs more than double from €330 to €780. Why should a young person who goes through the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I compliment the Minister of State, Deputy Ring, on taking my part in relation to hedgecutting. I wish to inform Senator Warfield that I do not have a problem with the hedges inside ditches along the roads. I have a problem with hedges along the roads that obscure a person's view while driving or walking. I make no apology for calling for hedges in such circumstances to be cut all year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry, Cathaoirleach, but I was not here for most of this discussion. I was not asleep either because I had many things to attend to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: When I hear hedges being mentioned, whatever few ribs I have stand up straight. A ridiculous case has been made to protect birds. I always put people before birds. I represent a particular county and know that the countryside does not look well when the hedges are not cut. Hedges should be cut all year round. We are talking about the roads that people use so their safety must take first...