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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...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes there was a cock-up in the past few days in respect of the waste collection service but the waste collection services have been unfairly targeted and criticised by many Members. In County Kerry and especially south Kerry we have a wonderful collection service provided by a privately operated company giving local employment and a very punctual service and helping the local communities to...

Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (21 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask that proper notification be given to parents in the future about possible side-effects. We are not asking the Minister of State to take the drug off the market. Parents need to be given the correct advice when the vaccination programme is taking place in schools. Parents should be notified in advance and allowed to make a decision after highlighting to them the possible or...

Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (21 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will the Minister for Health and the Health Service Executive address the concerns of parents in respect of the side effects supposedly caused by the HPV vaccine drug Gardasil, administered to 12 and 13 year old girls to prevent cervical cancer later in their lives? The Minister for Health should inform parents and create awareness about the possible side effects of this drug. They complain...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: My question is on behalf of the farming community in Ireland. It was never worse off and I hope the new Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is aware of that. There are four main issues at present. The first is the price of milk. Never before has a community had to work for an amount below what it costs to produce a product. People are getting less than what it costs them to...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, the support for agriculture in that programme. Another issue is that if the blue card of an animal states that the animal moved more than four times into four different herds, one will get €50 or €60 less for that animal in the factory. This is simply because there were more than four movements for that animal. Then there is the price of fertiliser, plastic, tyres and...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: The cost of oil should have reduced them.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: You do not know about that.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (21 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance to ensure that the 9% value added tax rate is retained for the hospitality sector to safeguard tourism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16718/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (21 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans he is putting in place to create equal supplementary panel rights for regulation 2 and regulation 3 teachers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16725/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Tax Yield (21 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 228. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding collected from the property tax charges in County Kerry in 2015; the amount of this funding provided to the local authority in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16723/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (21 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 234. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding Kerry County Council requested for housing in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16758/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (21 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 235. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding Kerry County Council received in 2015 for the provision of social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16759/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Assessments (21 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 325. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will complete and implement the recommendations of the catchment flood risk assessment and management, CFRAM, study; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16763/16]