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Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very disappointed that the Taoiseach has been blaming the local authorities for the housing crisis. It is not acceptable. I deplore the fact he said that the local authorities had lost their ability to build houses. They could not build houses when they were not able to access money. The tenant purchase scheme, which was a great scheme that allowed tenants to purchase their houses,...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: In regard to the new housing strategy, I am disappointed with the Taoiseach for blaming the local authorities and saying they lost their way in terms of house building. That is incorrect. The former Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government also blamed the local authorities in that regard, but the local authorities were not given the money to build houses.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach has again said that money is being provided. Are the blockages in the Department that prevented local authorities from accessing funding going to be removed?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: In 2013, the Government promised €1.2 million for Kerry County Council but the council could not access that funding. It also promised the council €62.5 million in 2015, which again it could not access-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----because of blockages in the Department. The Taoiseach is now unfairly blaming the local authorities, which I regret very much.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government did not give them the money.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Remove the blockages.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach did not give them money.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Taoiseach did not give them the money.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Since being elected to this House, I and the other representatives from Kerry have highlighted our dissatisfaction with home help provision for elderly people in our county, which is unacceptable. We raised the issue many times in the discussions on the programme for Government, on the Order of Business and at other times here, but nothing has changed in Kerry with regard to improving home...

Domiciliary Care Allowance: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Each and every one of us knows that health is paramount to families, especially to parents who have children. Unfortunately, however, some parents have a heavy cost to bear and unfair burdens when their children become ill and may be ill for many months or many years. Maybe some of them will never get back to full health. When they look for domiciliary care allowance, to which they are...

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for getting the ball rolling with this housing strategy. However, I will not praise the strategy until I see how it works because, as we all know, and as I know having been a member of Kerry County Council for 14 years, the devil is always in the detail and we have to see, as Deputy Mattie McGrath stated, how the blockages that we have been dealing with over the past...

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are not the Rural Alliance; we are the rural Independents.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is the Taoiseach aware that the local authority in Kerry is dezoning lands around the towns of Killarney and Tralee, which will have a devastating impact of on house building in Kerry? I know of 30 people working in Liebherr who cannot find a house to buy or a site on which to build a house. Will the Taoiseach direct that this process be delayed? It is wrong that any local authority would...

Order of Business (19 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: This issue arises out of the national spatial strategy, which is being directed by the Government under the Taoiseach's watch.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (13 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Six days ago, last Thursday, I used Leaders' Questions to ask about the Macroom to Ballyvourney bypass to see when the project would go ahead. The Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton, took the questions.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (13 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is, because of infrastructure, jobs and the health and safety of people going on the road to Cork.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (13 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why was I not informed that this project was not going to go ahead until 2022? I have become aware that last Monday an official from Transport Infrastructure Ireland or, as it was previously known, the NRA, informed Cork County Council that this project was not going to go ahead until 2022. Who is in charge of the provision of infrastructure? Is it the NRA, the Government or the Minister?...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (13 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can I just ask-----