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Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Under the programme for Government many things have been promised to help rural Ireland. Little has happened yet. The other evening I was standing at O'Brien's shop in Glenflesk on the side of the N22. The number 40 Expressway bus passed on the way to Killarney and Tralee.

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Deer Lodge, a 40-bed unit in Killarney to treat mental health patients, was completed in June 2015. The HSE promised before Christmas that it would open this year.

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: It was in the programme for Government that this facility would open. Is the Government responsible for health or not? The HSE promised that it would open this year. Last week,The Kerrymanreported that it will not open this year. Where is the funding going for health or what is happening at all? If this 40-bed unit is not opened this year, will it be knocked down? Will it be sold? What...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There appears to be a discrepancy. Transport Infrastructure Ireland has said it will cost €230 million. The Minister is saying it will cost €160 million. The lesser figures surely make it more attractive to get it going quicker. IBEC said yesterday that we have the lowest capital investment programme in Europe, even though interest rates and money were never cheaper. We...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am calling on the Government not to delay us any further and to bring it forward in the capital investment programme. That is what is needed to get the project going.

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am again using my Leaders' Questions slot to emphasise the urgency of providing funding for the long-awaited Macroom bypass, which is of vital importance to all of Kerry and much of Cork in attracting investment and jobs to the countries and assisting all who travel to Cork and beyond daily to work and to receive medical care and attention in the primary care hospitals in Cork, especially...

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: There would be uproar if a bank was robbed. We have it the other way around now - the banks are robbing the people. There is frustration and anger at the fact that so many people lost their homes. The repercussions for families, children and parents have been significant. People have had to leave their homes. I know so many who have lost their homes. It is so sad to think that banks and...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, was in Kerry yesterday, outlining the housing strategy to deal with the housing crisis. However, more needs to be done before many of these actions or policies will work. Yesterday, the Minister said if elderly people moved in with a son or a daughter, they could then rent their house to the local...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is not the question.

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will the Taoiseach deal with the question?

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The question is that farmers are under severe financial pressure and many of them are waiting for their GLAS payments. Why is this so? I am asking the Minister to speed up the GLAS payments due to farmers. Why are they being held up? We are already in 2017 yet many have not been paid. I ask the Minister to pay them as soon as possible.

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: A lot of them are in Kerry.

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (18 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak to the Bill which is very important, especially to those in rural Ireland. Many people in north-west Cork and parts of east Kerry are very worried because the post office in Ballydesmond is due to close at the end of February. They are hopeful An Post will issue a tender for the service again and that someone in the locality will be successful in...

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: If the farms are going badly, the towns and businesses are going badly as well. Some, although not all, grain farmers were hit so badly that they got no crop and therefore no income. I ask the Minister to accept the motion. All they are asking for is €4.5 million. The Minister could get it from Europe if he applies to it. There is a special fund that can be accessed when farmers...

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Deputy Bríd Smith will do nothing about the weather anyway.

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: Support them.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: The present tenant purchase scheme is totally unworkable. I am sure the Taoiseach is aware that Kerry County Council wrote to the Department in 2015 stating that 80% of applicants would not qualify. Before the scheme was suspended four or five years before that, the local authority when it sold a house to the tenant then used that money directly to repair vacant houses and make them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am a bit out of my jurisdiction when one is talking about Galway. I know that a lot of what is happening there is happening and has happened in relation to the Macroom bypass and other infrastructural projects in County Kerry. Surely the people who pay motor tax, and that is the people of Galway, and west Galway in this case, are entitled to a proper safe road when going back and forth...

Private Members' Business - Anti-Evictions Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I must confirm that only three council houses have been built in the past seven years in County Kerry so it is much the same story as that laid out by Deputy Connolly. Eviction is very hurtful and painful for the family affected by it. It is also very traumatic for the close neighbours, the community and children who are friends of the children who must leave the house in which they may...

Other Questions: Tax Code (17 Jan 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to clarify one point for the Minister in terms of my understanding of the issue. Farmers were awarded the shares per thousand gallons of milk quota but it was not payment for the milk. The shares were awarded as part of a goodwill gesture. However, if a farmer falls out with the co-op, he or she will be made to take €1.25 per share and the shares will be taken from him or...