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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I know our senior planners look at what they have to adhere to but it is not appearing here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is no compulsion on them to do that at all. They can say they met a couple of fellas down the road who agreed with it but there is no account of the fellas who were against it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the witnesses very much.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes. I am sorry I was not here for the beginning of the meeting but there were other things I had to attend to. It is good to have the witnesses here today. I thank the Chairman for allowing me to talk because I am not a member of the committee. It has been brought to my attention by a respiratory consultant who is concerned. In the quest to reduce emissions and for construction to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: In some windows there is no opening or latch at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the witnesses for their response. I raised this because a specialist consultant raised the issue that she is receiving a lot more patients with respiratory problems and she was concerned that it was because of air circulation pumps.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Review of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak. As the Acting Chair is well aware, I represent a rural county, although of course we have great towns. We have a vast rural territory. The issue of loneliness, including for farmers, was mentioned earlier. I am very grateful for Ms Earley's overview. I welcome especially Dr. Breandán Ó Caoimh. I know him very well. He is originally...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Review of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are quite prepared to take you on with the team we have. We do not have to go into any other county to take their players.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Review of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have lads coming up all over Kerry. We do not need other counties.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Review of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can I make one point?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Review of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (22 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will. It is something I wish to highlight to Dr. Ó Caoimh. We have a social farming model in Kerry. It is different from the rest of the country. It is to help to people. The participant is usually maybe a boy or a girl who is a bit slow and from a town or a village. They go out into the country and they see what is happening naturally. The farmers do not look to be paid or...

Irish Unity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was in the North today. I travelled through four counties early in the morning. It is a grand place with grand people. Like Deputy Michael Collins, I thank the consultants and staff in Kingsbridge Private Hospital for the great care they have taken of all the patients we have sent up for cataract removals, hip and knee replacements and all the other things. They are very careful and...

Finance Bill 2025: Second Stage (21 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for being here this evening to hear our requests. We need to thank him for the money that has been allocated. People will say there is a budget every day but the budget is about being fair. I know that Government has tried to do its best and to be as fair as possible. There is a complaint out there in a lot of people's minds that the working-class people, workers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to be here and thank the witnesses for coming. Some of the issues I will raise I have already raised several times in the Dáil Chamber. It is sad when I do not see a response coming. When we talk about vacancy and dereliction, how to deal with it and how to sort it out, we must look back at how it began or why it happened. To me, our streetscapes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have to realise that, when a house is vacant, it starts to smell, it gets damp and different things happen to it even after 12 months of being idle. One could at least have the windows open but vacancy leads to dereliction. We need to start there. I would be glad of the support to talk to the Government because I seem to be getting nowhere with it. I am at this for the last two or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: These houses are all around the country. They are in villages like Kilgarvan, Gneeveguilla and Scartaglin and different places. There are houses all over the place. People lived in them, they were happy in them, and I see no reason why it could not happen again. There needs to be the will. For it to work, the Government must realise that it must play its part as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: There can be many reasons why they will not sell it. One would be sentimental value or another reason. They might be waiting for a son or daughter to come back. We see so many young people emigrating these days. I was at a function the other night for ten of them who would be going away before Christmas. They will not be here for the Christmas dinner this year. They are going to...