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

Danny Healy-Rae: Just a second Chairman, because I had to drive really fast to be here at all.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: All I am saying-----

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I know but I am here too and I was here on days when the other fellows were had landed at all and I had to wait for them.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: In any case I am saying nothing about that now but-----

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

Danny Healy-Rae: When farmers' payments are held up why not allow so much of the payments to be paid? They hold up some farmers' payments for a whole year or maybe more, and those farmers cannot put bread on the table when this is going on. They are entitled to receive some of the payment but not to it all. However, the whole lot is held up and this needs to be addressed. Under the fair deal scheme the...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: When it is reduced the price at the pumps does not go down for months. We need to work on that and I am asking the witnesses to do their best to address these issues.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I have been told it is.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: A national spatial strategy was put in place some time in 2012 and signed by the then Minister, Deputy Leo Varadkar. Aspects of this strategy are preventing family members of farmers from accessing national secondary roads in County Kerry. My county has more miles of national secondary road than any other county. Family members are being prevented from securing planning permission. In...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: The roadside hedges should be cut all year round and priority must be given to the people travelling the roads over the birds. No bird is so stupid as to make a nest outside the ditch anywhere along the side of the road. I totally agree about the greenway routes. I am very disappointed with the route taken by our local authority in the way it has gone about it - there should have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (25 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too am very disappointed that the Minister has not turned up. I need to ascertain whether she was given a different time. Would she have come at a different time? Has she indicated that she will make herself available? I recognise that Deputy Collins has a particular issue to be dealt with but all members have other items that we wanted to discuss here with the Minister. It seems to be...

Funding for Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Reports suggest that 600 rural national schools are under threat as numbers drop below 50 students. If a large number of these school close, it will be to the detriment of rural Ireland. Something must be done and the Minister and the Department must understand that when it is suggested that a two-teacher school needs 19 pupils, different factors need to be assessed. About the only thing I...

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to ask the Minister for Health why the HSE is advising elderly people to access the fair deal scheme and enter nursing homes instead of giving them funding for a few more hours of home help. It appears there is no funding for home-help services and the advice being given is that people should access nursing homes. I am asking the Minister and the Taoiseach to allow the HSE discretion...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Stay-at-home parents and families have been discriminated against in this budget. They are not happy about the child care programme that is being rolled out because their needs have not been considered at all. Everyone in this country should be cherished and treated equally, but this section of our community - young families - is not being treated fairly in budget 2017. I am speaking for...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Nothing has moved on and nothing is moving, and that is the truth of it. I am not happy with the Taoiseach's answer because he moved away from the two questions I asked him to deal with. If he keeps doing that, we will finish up where we are with no house being built. The fact of the matter is that developers cannot access money in this country at present and they do not have money of...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach has gone west again.

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The housing crisis rolls on and its cause is the lack of supply. Would-be developers and building contractors cannot start building in the private sector as they cannot borrow from many of our mainstream banks. The banks will not lend them any money. Would-be builders do not have any money of their own and the only option is to borrow from lending institutions outside the State that are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (12 Oct 2016)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (12 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will do my best. I apologise for missing part of the presentation because I had to participate in Leaders’ Questions. I welcome the delegations here today. I thank the witnesses for their excellent presentations, particularly for outlining the work that they have done for the past years. It is a pity that the Ministers who have the funding and make the decisions are not here to...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am disappointed that funding has not been approved for local improvement schemes which are very important in County Kerry and other rural counties. This funding was included in the programme for Government - I included it when I was involved in the negotiations. Did the Minister lose the relevant page? Almost 1,000 roads in County Kerry need work to be undertaken. The last half mile of...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am grateful to have the opportunity to speak about the budget. I thank the Ministers and the Government. Every man sets out to do his best when he gets up in the morning, or at least most people try to do so, but at times their best may not be good enough. However, when they try to do their best, they have to be complimented. It is welcome that medical cards are to be extended to...