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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: When I hear about the cut affecting the route from Clonmel to Dublin, what hope have we from Caherciveen to Tralee and from Killarney to Cork? I cannot understand what has gone wrong. My daughter gets on the No. 40 bus on a Sunday evening and comes back on a Thursday or Friday. It is always full and she is standing on it most of the time. What has gone wrong? Bus Éireann...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was not here and I am sorry. I would have been here had I known about it. It is clear that we need an answer from Bus Éireann on the routes it is cutting. If the NTA is able to subsidise, how can it say it can consider subsidising certain routes if the operators are deciding which routes they will service? Surely the authority should decide in the first instance which routes need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: We were told Bus Éireann would go bust in March. The date has now been deferred until 1 May. What will happen the company's schools contract? Mother Teresa died and there is no one else to operate. What will the Department do if Bus Éireann goes bust? What contingency plan is in place for the operation of the schools contract?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I operate a very small bus service. I continued to operate my father's business, which he was operating since 1956. It is important that I be up-front about this. Many children throughout the country will be stranded, particularly in rural areas, if the company goes bust and the school bus service will not be provided. What contingency plan is there to ensure the service will continue to...

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: This system is hurting many small companies in that they are not allowed to tender for contracts but they end up doing the work for the larger company that comes into the local area to supply the contract. Ten companies in the country are running the contracts involving all the jobs now. The local traders are only left with the crumbs. They do not get the proper value out of the jobs that...

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will give the Deputy one minute.

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: One of the biggest things hurting rural Ireland today in places such as County Kerry is pre-qualification tenders in which previous years' turnover are taken into account before a company is allowed to tender for many of the public works that happen around our county. Massive sums of money are required - €10 million or €20 million. Local companies, which actually finish up...

National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very glad to get the opportunity to speak to this very important Bill before us. I thank Deputy Brophy for putting this Bill together to ensure the people who died so tragically at that time are at least commemorated once per year. It is very important to do that because if we do not know how we got here, we certainly do not know where we are going. As a contractor I have been into...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: These people are eligible.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (21 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason schools (details supplied) were not included in the DEIS plan 2017- new DEIS schools list published on 13 February 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8610/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 501. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); when the person will be called for a cataract operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8739/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (21 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 559. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a GLAS payment for a person (details supplied) is being held up in view of the fact the life scheme has been paid already; the reason his Department is rechecking this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8612/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (16 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will provide a new national school (details supplied). [7963/17]

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: People in every part of the country are horrified and disgusted by what has occurred in recent days. They do not believe the contradictory statements made in the House by many Government members. There does not seem to be any accountability. It is equally horrifying that the cost of another tribunal will be loaded on taxpayers, the low and middle income earners who leave for work early...

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: No, it is fine.

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I support this motion. I welcome the idea of a special exemption for Northern Ireland. We have to have it. A hard Border would be a disaster because it would deprive us of the free movement of goods and agricultural produce and make it difficult for workers to travel back and forth. There is clearly great support for the motion. However, the talk must happen other than in this Chamber....

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is no laughing matter.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Over €900 million has been added to the health budget again this year. People are languishing on trolleys, however, and waiting in accident and emergency units, and the number on trolleys has not reduced. The Taoiseach visited Cork University Hospital last Monday evening. Before his arrival, many trolleys were wheeled out of the accident and emergency unit into various wards. The...

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The people on trolleys do not have much interest in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Returning Emigrant Support Services: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the delegates. I have been dealing with Safe Home Ireland in County Mayo for many years. I thank all those involved for their support and assistance in bringing many people home to County Kerry to end their days in the place they left 40 or 50 years ago. I thank them for the part they have played in assisting the people concerned to return home to end their days in their home...