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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: 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...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: With regard to the elements of the programme for Government dealing with the trolley crisis, why is the Government not providing funding for extra staff for the escalation ward in Tralee general hospital, or what is now known as University Hospital Kerry? The wards are there but we need staff to man them. The funding is not there. Why is the Minister not providing it?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (6 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of the fact that a school (details supplied) is presently closed, the parents want to know, his plans for the national school going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29122/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: An Bord Pleanála (6 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 138. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if, when an inspector from An Bord Pleanála visits a site and makes a recommendation to grant an application, the reason this decision is, in many cases, overruled and refused by other members of the board who have not visited the site and could not have any proper understanding of the position; if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (6 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 220. To ask the Minister for Health if he will carry out an investigation as to the way in which the €900,000 is being spent as outlined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29123/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Planning Issues (6 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review an unfair rule (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29162/16]

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The assessment of farmers' land for the fair deal scheme is very unfair. I am not sure whether the stock on the land would be valued as well and thrown into the mix. This issue is creating stress and concern for the son or whoever is taking charge of the farm in that they might be landed with this unreasonable cost. It is unfair. It is their asset for generating income. In many cases it...

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Sinn Fein Party for bringing forward this motion and giving us an opportunity to raise this important matter. I will start off by asking again that the HSE open Deer Lodge in St. Margaret's Road in Killarney, a purpose-built unit to cater for 40 patients. It cost millions of euro and has been lying there empty for over a year and a half. That is not acceptable. I raised it...