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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Let me have just a few more seconds. I am sure there are other services that could be offered. For instance, I cannot understand why the Government put a system in place covering all of County Kerry under which a person has to drive from Caherciveen, Valentia Island, Ardgroom, Eyeries and Lauragh to Tralee to renew a driving licence. It is ridiculous. Post offices could have operated the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed). (9 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have to ask the representatives of the banks a question I missed. There was an assurance given by the banks that they would offer low interest loans to a certain number of farmers in the new year. I ask that the scheme be extended to beef farmers and that there be no limit on the number of people who will qualify under it. Farming has reached a critical point. All sectors are under...

Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am grateful to get this opportunity to ask the Minister for Health about Lantern Lodge in Killarney. Twenty-seven long-enduring patients with mental health disabilities are being asked to move to a new facility at Leawood House on Countess Road in Killarney.

Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, it does. The programme for Government contains a commitment to assist people with mental health disabilities. I will put the scenario to the Taoiseach because the Minister has gone. People with long-enduring disabilities were getting a meal at the Lantern Lodge facility. They are being moved across town now. They have been told they will not get a meal and they will not have...

Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why is the Government allowing this to happen to the most vulnerable section of our community? On top of the recent proposal to close the St. Mary of the Angels facility in the town of Killarney, it is proposed to hurt 27 more people. Why is this being allowed?

Order of Business (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is the truth.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the people from the OPW and the CFRAMS engineers to today's meeting. It is good to get an opportunity to raise the flooding issues that have been inflicted on the people of County Kerry in recent years. Who is responsible for what? Who is accountable for sorting these problems out? I firmly believe the reasons our rivers are flooding can be linked to the system of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: During periods of very dry weather there are many - perhaps too many - gorse fires across County Kerry which often have to be tackled by up to five fire brigades, but they are powerless because they cannot move off the road. Fire service personnel are very good, but they can only do so much. Why does the service not use excavators to open a fire belt to stop a fire from spreading? We have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am pleased to be given an opportunity to meet the witnesses. I thank them for attending. It is significant that all the Deputies present are from rural areas. Perhaps members from towns and cities do not have as much interest in this issue or they may not experience as many problems as members from rural areas. As Deputies Michael Collins and Ó Cuív stated, it is vital that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the witnesses for attending. They made 100% effort to answer each of our questions. We have asked many other people many other questions and they were not able to answer but that was not the way with these witnesses. I will forever thank them for being so upfront and for doing their level best to answer our questions. We know they are under pressure and we are really grateful for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am pleased to get this opportunity to ask a few questions and to put my point of view across. I welcome the witnesses. I am pleased they are present. I do not know any of the witnesses and I have nothing personal against any of them. I have not said it before now but I think our health service is a shambles. We are going backwards not forwards with every aspect of it that I deal with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Could I say something? I would be grateful if I could just get this in. This 95 year old man was being refused a quarter of an hour's support to put him into bed but this same man could be paid for in a nursing home by the fair deal scheme. Why would some of the fair deal scheme not be diverted to keeping him at home where we wants to stay? That is what I would ask Mr. Hayes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the delegation for attending. Every man is doing his best, but we need to work harder.

UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I know. The last thing I will say to the Minister is that wave energy is not being explored at all. We have a massive distance of coastline all around us. Wave energy should be supported to ensure that it gets off the ground.

UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right. Thank you very much.

UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: My views on climate change are already well known. There were changes in the climate way back in times when there was no industrialisation and when there were far fewer animals on farms in our country. There was no intensification of farming in the centuries gone by, yet we had intense heat and long periods of very cold, wet weather, which culminated in the loss of many lives in the famine...

UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Motion (27 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister and I are the same in that we have nothing on our heads to spray. Anyway, we are managing. They never told us that nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean 50 years ago actually caused the serious damage to the ozone layer. I am thankful it is now mending and curing. It has nothing to do with policies in any country in recent times. I am very worried about this agreement...

Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government's credibility will depend on the success of the housing strategy it announced some weeks ago and again in the budget a fortnight ago. Many young couples are disappointed that the Finance Bill does not provide any help to first-time buyers who purchase a second-hand home. It is also unclear whether repossessed houses in housing developments that fell into other people's hands...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I apologise to the committee and delegation for arriving late. I had a family event today I could not avoid. I am glad to be here to welcome the delegation. We need to work together because the farming community is at a crossroads. The biggest issue we must face, fight or get around is Brexit. If farmers make a bit of money, they are the best community to spend money. If the farming...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: A very important thing is the road to the farmer's door. We were promised local improvement schemes, which were suspended in 2011, but there was no mention of them in the budget as much as I, other Members and local authority members throughout the country have fought. The people in rural Ireland are entitled to a good road to their door. The last half mile to their door is as important as...