Results 4,641-4,660 of 4,983 for speaker:Danny Healy-Rae
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the introduction of a rural social scheme. Unfortunately, the people who want to access it cannot do so. I know of many fellas who want to avail of the scheme but to qualify they must receive a means tested payment first. Sadly, they cannot join. There are also people who are in receipt of social welfare payments but do not want to avail of the rural social scheme. The real...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: Planning was mentioned. I ask the Minister to do something about the planning scenario that has deprived young people from having a home. At present, rural areas are treated as areas under urban generated pressure. The policy was adopted to stop people leaving towns and building in areas outside of towns. The policy also stops a person in a rural area who buys a site 300 yards away from...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for being helpful.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Deputy is dead right.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: It is relevant.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: In the programme for Government there was a promise that farmers who were struggling to survive would get assistance. A loan scheme was rolled out by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in which banks would give loans at low interest rates to farmers who were under financial pressure. This scheme is not working. To avail of the scheme one must be in the black and a good...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Danny Healy-Rae: I want the Minister to clarify repair and leasing. Will vacant houses in rural places qualify for the repair and leasing scheme, or will the towns that have greater need and greater housing lists come first? The Minister says he has €32 million for 2017. Will it be for cities like Dublin, Cork and Limerick, where there is a much greater need? Can the Minister clarify if everyone...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Minister to clarify that. The local authority has told me that only areas with greater need will qualify for the loan. I refer to elderly people who go to live with their families and rent out their houses. Will people on a non-contributory pension be allowed to keep it?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry. Those are my two questions. I thank the Chairman.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Danny Healy-Rae: He mentioned it in his housing strategy when he went to Kerry.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Danny Healy-Rae: That is fine, but if it is a proposal of the Minister's. It has to be in the Estimates. There has to be some figure or concession given to-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Revised) (1 Mar 2017) Danny Healy-Rae: Kerry is a big county and there are rural places-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach promised he would open six Garda stations. Where are they being opened?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: If there is room for a late one, I-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: My question is on promised legislation. The previous Government, led by the Taoiseach, closed many Garda stations around the country. People are suffering because of that. Many homes in Glenflesk and other rural parts of Kerry were plundered and had valuable items taken from them in recent times. There is hardly any Garda presence in the entire Kenmare Estuary to defend communities...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: On promised legislation, the Government has committed to the opening of six Garda stations. Has the Taoiseach met the Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O'Sullivan, to agree the six Garda stations to be opened? Will some of these be in south Kerry, especially since the whole 55 mile stretch from Kenmare to Caherciveen is left without a Garda station? Will some of them be restored? Will...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: That is not happening in my area.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: On the same issue----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the delegates from the NTA. They should not take my comments personally. I am very disappointed over comments I have heard here today on giving out licences and allowing operators to decide themselves what runs to do. As elected members, our primary reason for being here today is to ensure rural people have a transport service, including a bus service. They are entitled to a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Danny Healy-Rae: That is fine.