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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am not sure how the Chairman's clock is working.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to ask the same question that was asked by two other members. Why are people being directed into towns and villages and away from the rural areas where they were reared? If an elderly person's house falls into disrepair, a rural cottage will not be built for him or her. Only three were built in Kerry in the past eight years. Where a fellow wants to stay with his few cattle where he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Nitrates Usage (6 Dec 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will extend the transitional agreements to allow pig and poultry farmers to spread their slurry and litter under the same terms as they are allowed to do up until the end of 2016 as the review of the nitrates regulations will not take place until 2017 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: People are waiting for up to two years for cataract procedures at Cork University Hospital. Can the Minister for Health operate the Sligo model in Cork University Hospital because the people of Kerry are disenfranchised and have to wait much too long? They will be blind for Christmas and for the next two years if these procedures are not rolled out.

Flood Insurance Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome all of the people present from all around the country, especially my neighbours from west Cork. We have had flooding in County Kerry. I will support the Bill. As well as the people who have been helped by the OPW, there are others who have been flooded and sorted themselves out. They should be looked after too in the Bill. Culverts in housing estates were blocked and the...

Flood Insurance Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: There are rivers in County Kerry that have not been cleaned in the past 30 or 40 years because of the problem of cross-compliance whereby a landowner or a farmer cannot touch a river because Inland Fisheries Ireland will threaten to jail him or her if he or she does so. Houses and roads did not sink in Glenflesk, but water levels in rivers have risen. That problem needs to be dealt with....

Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have to raise again the serious problem of elderly people in County Kerry waiting for cataract operations. I have raised this many times previously and, indeed, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae has raised it as well. It is just not good enough. We have five Ministers for health and we have a raft of HSE managers, yet many elderly people will not be able to see this Christmas-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Just one second. They have to wait for a year and a half to two years for an operation that takes little over an hour. It is very unfair to leave people blind in the latter days of their lives for so long. We have five Ministers for health. If they are not able to deal with the problem - I have it raised many times before - they will have to pull out because they cannot give people a...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is very bad for people.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the minor works grant for the year 2016-2017 in view of the fact that much of the year has already passed; and if it will be available for schools in 2016. [36856/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pensions Legislation (29 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Montessori teachers do not receive any pension; and the reason they do not get paid during their holidays. [36907/16]

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: One solicitor boasted on Facebook that he got €80,000 for a girl making a claim. He said that if others have similar cases, they should come to him so he can do the same for them. There are serial claimants and they need to be dealt with. They need to be put on a list and action needs to be taken in regard to them. The fraud squad or some other squad needs to be sent after them...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The cost of insurance is still a serious problem for practically everyone. The old and young cannot pay the premiums that are now being demanded. An elderly person of 72 or 73 who never had an accident must now pay €710. This has risen from €350, despite the fact that the man is driving the same car. It has passed its test, everything is perfect and the man has made no claim....

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry, but I cannot agree with this proposal to elect a lord mayor of Dublin. It is much too soon.

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Of course I disagree, because we have to prioritise the needs of the people of the country. I cannot see how this is such a priority or why parties are tripping over each other to be out front with this proposal and ensure that a lord mayor is elected in Dublin. Surely there is enough bureaucracy and layers of local government, as well as Deputies, Ministers and everything else. I do...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (23 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The programme for Government stated that we would support farming incomes. However, the Revenue Commissioners have recently attacked farmers' incomes by way of a retrospective policy of charging tax on shares given to them by Kerry Co-op. Instead of attacking the farming community, can the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine assist grain and beef farmers who are severely hit and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the three groups to the committee today. It is great to note their ideas up close and to examine what they are about. They are linking arms to help rural areas and I thank them sincerely for their efforts. I am amazed at the turn-around FORUM Connemara has given the people in Connemara. We are keen to know more and get to see what the company is doing. Many areas in Kerry,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: My final point concerns rural isolation. It relates to the rule that people in rural areas cannot drive to a pub and have two or three pints. I highlighted this three years ago. A permit for certain people should be allowed on certain roads in isolated areas in order that they are able to have two or two and a half pints and drive. If they break the rules of their permit, they should face...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: May I ask a couple of questions?