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Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister of State should give over his codding-----

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ----- and pointing the finger.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister of State is making a hames of this.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: He is making an absolute hames of it. The Minister of State wants us to vote for a pig in a poke.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Give over the codding and the politics.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is why you are where you are.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: He is talking about the Fianna Fáil TDs, and they are not concerned about it at all.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raised this with the Minister last Wednesday evening. I cannot understand how fundraising as we know it has become part of the Bill. I know about the fundraising that goes on in clubs. Most of the work done in local GAA and soccer clubs is done by volunteers who give of their time free of charge. There are things that have to be paid for, such as insurance, travel to games, taking care...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Kilgarvan.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: We beat the best of north Kerry, both times.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: You still remember it though, and I will not let you forget it.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: In the same vein, this is very serious. I have come across couples and families totally broke up by this system where they can bet morning, noon and night online. As has been said, going to the races for a day is a different thing where people have a meal or two in the course of a day. They set out to spend a few bob, they have so much in their pockets and they can cut their cloth...

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this very important topic. It is one that everyone is talking about where I come from. The people I represent are very worried about opting in to this new migration pact. They are asking why Denmark is not opting in. We are an island nation and we do not have much natural resources. Working people working, including farmers and businesspeople,...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Everyone around the country is concerned about betting and gambling, especially online gambling. Youngsters are betting online and there has to be some curbing of that. We have to legislate for that. There have to be some limits whereby people can only bet so much online. That has to be introduced. There is no call for tampering with the fundraising of clubs, charities, sports clubs,...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have been a farmer all my life and I understand very well what farmers are going through and have gone through since 16 June last, since it started raining first. This €100 per hectare is €40 per acre for grain. God almighty, €40 an acre would not bring home one bag of messages. Farmers are being blamed for everything. Farmers are providing food, and if we do not...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I respectfully ask the Taoiseach to do something urgently for Liam Dennehy Quinn of Crohane, Killarney, who is 13 years old. He is waiting for a scoliosis operation in Crumlin children's hospital and is in terrible pain. The curvature of his spine has worsened so much that he will now need two surgeries rather than one. The curvature has gone from 35° to 92°. I will give the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Just one second. This child is in terrible pain and he needs to have the procedure scheduled without delay. There is his father, Stephen, his mother, Pamela, and his grandmother, Mary Dennehy, whose brother has worked for me for more than 40 years. This is very close to me and to my home because they are practically family.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am asking the Taoiseach to deal with this urgently. As Taoiseach of Ireland, I respectfully ask him to do that.

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Regional Group for bringing this worthy motion before us today. I will be supporting it 100%. There have been many promises in the past in regard to helping carers but they have fallen on deaf ears, so far. The nub of the problem is that means testing for carer's allowance will have to be abolished - full stop, no ifs or buts about it. There are other groups that should not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses from the Department. We have to realise the export of calves is vital, especially for the dairy sector, which needs to calve cows every year so that cows continue in milk. The calves have to go somewhere. Farmers cannot be beholden to factories because we know what happens there from time to time, namely, if there is a large increase in young cattle becoming strong...