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Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will start where I finished earlier regarding the greenways or "blackways", as Deputy Ó Cuív, called them. Why is a compulsory acquisition order required in respect of the areas involved in Kerry when that was not the way it was dealt with for the other greenways? I am concerned about the amount of funding the Minister said is available for the Leader programme. We have...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am very concerned about that issue. I am also concerned that it will be mainly administered by the local community development committees, LCDCs, rather than Leader partnership companies. That is a big cutback for rural areas compared to the bottom-up approach we had with the partnerships. The populated areas, with which I have nothing against, will probably benefit more than the rural...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am aware that the Minister is interested in this because this is what is involved when discussing rural Ireland. We must address this issue, return the funding and make discretionary funding available to the local councillors whereby they can nominate two or three roads each year which are not getting attention through any other means.

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I cannot believe the Minister. It is like the loaves and the fishes in that one must have the power to multiply. That would mean funding for our county roads and local roads would have been reduced, and the massive volume of traffic is from local areas into towns. I did not talk about the local improvement scheme. We are told, and I must believe our county manager, that there is only...

Select Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It has been cut back to practically nil. One year, when my father was a Member of the Dáil, we received enough funding to do 111 roads.

Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Before I ask my question, I highlight that it could be construed that I may have a conflict of interest, as I have a family plant hire business involved in different projects around Kerry and Cork maybe as well. Are the Taoiseach and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government aware that many group water schemes have been on the list to be taken in charge for many years?...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 293. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to expedite an application by a person (details supplied) under the domiciliary care allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19209/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 294. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to expedite an application by a person (details supplied) under the domiciliary carer's allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19210/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 295. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to expedite an application for a person (details supplied) under the invalidity allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19211/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 477. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide additional home help for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19227/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 478. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide additional home help for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19231/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Contracts (30 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to create equal supplementary panel rights for fully qualified regulation three teachers with Teaching Council numbers (details supplied). [18851/16]

Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Bruton, on his new portfolio. I am sure it will be no problem to him, as he has served in many other Ministries. I have to say we do not have discrimination issues in Kerry, Killarney or Tralee. We have people of many different religious denominations attending our national schools and secondary schools....

Questions on Proposed Legislation (28 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to ask the Minister for Social Protection to address an anomaly and a serious matter. The disability equality (miscellaneous provisions) Bill is required to allow ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and to make further technical amendments to disability and equality law. I am seeking to highlight the denial of disability payments to our own...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Paternity Leave (28 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 241. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will make the payments retrospective to anyone who would qualify on or after 1 September 2016 in relation to the Paternity Leave and Benefit Bill 2016, given that this scheme was promised to be effected from 1 September 2016 and it now appears that it will not come into effect until 30 September 2016; and if he will make a statement on the...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this most serious matter that has arisen in recent days. To say that people are exercised about it would be to say very little. People in rural Ireland are wondering and concerned about the future. In rural areas such as County Kerry and west Cork, where I spent some time yesterday evening, people depend on the European Union for their existence. The...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Great news, a Cheann Comhairle. I wish to raise a number of matters with our new Minister for Social Protection and to wish him well in his role as Minister of that Department. Many problems have been created in recent years which made it difficult for people who wished to get on community employment, CE, schemes as well as those in the Department trying to administer them. One problem...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I also want to mention carer's allowance because it is very important. It takes 19 weeks before applications for carer's allowance are even assessed. I know a man who applied in February and it was only the other day, after 19 weeks had passed, that the Department wrote to him looking for additional information. The application was not looked at until then. That is very sad and very...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to highlight what has happened in my neck of the woods, in Sneem and Lauragh. Sneem, which always had two gardaí and a sergeant, is reduced to a part-time garda who is only available for an hour now and then. At certain times of the year the population of Sneem trebles and more, with an influx of visitors from all over the world. Lauragh Garda station was closed down two...

The Arts: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to ask for financial support for rural and local festivals around the country because by means of these festivals and fair days and vintage rallies and so forth people and parishes retain their identities. This is the last bastion or way they have of showing their individual identities. Kenmare Fair Day on 15 August is the big day in Kenmare. It costs more now to stage these events...