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Cost of Motoring: Motion [Private Members] (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this motion before us this evening. Motoring costs affect every man, woman and child on the road. Kerry is a very diverse county with three peninsulas, and if you are going anywhere, it is a long journey. People cannot manage without a car because without one, they are marooned. I will start off with the...

Cost of Motoring: Motion [Private Members] (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: All right.

Social Welfare and Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk again on this social welfare Bill and auto-enrolment. We are hoping that in a very short time, the means test for carers will be abolished altogether. As I understand it, if you are caring for someone with a disability you are actually living their life. That is what many loved ones are doing. They have no choice in the matter. They do not think...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Review of Storm Éowyn and Storm Preparedness: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses. I thank them very much. I know they are all busy in their own areas. Storm Éowyn, as has been said by Deputy Daly, created a lot of trouble in Kerry. We have high areas that were affected by the snow. People could not get up there at all in places like Cordal and Glencar and places were without electricity for maybe a week to ten days, which is too long. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Review of Storm Éowyn and Storm Preparedness: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I need to interrupt Mr. Tarrant because the clock is winding down. Can the witnesses eliminate trees falling on wires now? There should be no tree within falling distance of a wire or a road. I would like to hear the county manager's opinion on that. We read ads in the paper of lives being lost because of drink-driving, but lives have been lost by trees falling out on roads. When someone...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Review of Storm Éowyn and Storm Preparedness: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: What are the county managers-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Review of Storm Éowyn and Storm Preparedness: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: With the Comhchathaoirleach's forbearance, I should have said at the outset that we wanted to thank the ESB and the local authorities in Kerry and so on. I also thank the volunteers who went out that way. We would have been lost only for everyone pulling together and working together. Would it be reasonable to ask that there should be no tree within falling distance of a road or a wire?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Review of Storm Éowyn and Storm Preparedness: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I suppose I am interrupting, but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Review of Storm Éowyn and Storm Preparedness: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----I do not agree with Mr. Kehoe-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Review of Storm Éowyn and Storm Preparedness: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses. I thank them very much. I know they are all busy in their own areas. Storm Éowyn, as has been said by Deputy Daly, created a lot of trouble in Kerry. We have high areas that were affected by the snow. People could not get up there at all in places like Cordal and Glencar and places were without electricity for maybe a week to ten days, which is too long. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Review of Storm Éowyn and Storm Preparedness: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I need to interrupt Mr. Tarrant because the clock is winding down. Can the witnesses eliminate trees falling on wires now? There should be no tree within falling distance of a wire or a road. I would like to hear the county manager's opinion on that. We read ads in the paper of lives being lost because of drink-driving, but lives have been lost by trees falling out on roads. When someone...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Review of Storm Éowyn and Storm Preparedness: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: What are the county managers-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Review of Storm Éowyn and Storm Preparedness: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: With the Comhchathaoirleach's forbearance, I should have said at the outset that we wanted to thank the ESB and the local authorities in Kerry and so on. I also thank the volunteers who went out that way. We would have been lost only for everyone pulling together and working together. Would it be reasonable to ask that there should be no tree within falling distance of a road or a wire?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Review of Storm Éowyn and Storm Preparedness: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I suppose I am interrupting, but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad of the opportunity to welcome the witnesses and the concerned people behind my back. As is well known, the south Kerry greenway is in progress and has been for three or four years. Going back to 2014 and 2015, I was a councillor. There was a vote at Kerry County Council about the CPO at the end of 2014 and in early 2015. Along with Councillor Johnny Healy-Rae and a few others, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can you imagine that? Someone creates a path in your land and you are not paid for it. That is wrong and, from what I know, when something is wrong, it cannot be right. We are for the greenway. A lot of people in south Kerry are looking for the greenway. Cahersiveen town is on its knees and a lot of other tourism along the way is on its knees. However, some other way will have to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the witnesses for coming in. They have a job to do. People are very concerned. The south Kerry greenway is well under way and many people have not been paid. If there are machines working and their land fenced off, at what stage will they be paid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry, when they went down the CPO route there was no more talking to the farmers and the landowners. The machines are working inside in their places. Some of them are finished; they have gone through the farms. They are fenced off. They have received no money and it has been going on three or four years. If I bought a piece of land from someone, I would have to pay upfront before I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry, I have to interrupt Ms Fitzpatrick because my time is almost gone. They cannot talk to anyone. If they talk to anyone, the Garda will be called on them. That is what has happened and it is not good enough. Fair is fair. People had to fight to keep their small places. In one man's place they went through the middle of the only field he had for silage. He wanted them to go...