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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (4 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 402. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will devise education programmes for young farmers on taxation reports and VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28754/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (4 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 403. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for the provision of supports addressing high production costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28756/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (4 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 419. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide infrastructure and support for early year settings operating through Irish outside Gaeltacht regions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28703/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (4 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 420. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to make strategic investments in early years education (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28705/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (4 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 421. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to introduce measures to support naíonraí in hiring staff (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28706/24]

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Can Deputy Shortall let me finish with the bit of time I have remaining? I wish to speak up for the elderly people in Kerry-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: ------who wish to have their eyesight restored.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: An elderly person who needs an operation in the North but cannot afford it-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----might very well be glad of the opportunity to go there. That person would not like someone sitting inside here heckling someone who is trying to stand up for elderly people. How dare Deputy Shortall go against old people like that? That is wrong.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: This is my time-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----and I want to finish it. I hate the idea of a person-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: What does Deputy Shortall know about people in Kerry or west Cork who need to go to the North to save their eyesight?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Deputy Shortall has chosen to try to cut me out of making my points.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is extremely unfair and very unprofessional.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is a low thing for Deputy Shortall to interrupt a debate like that.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Buses? It is about people's eyesight. How dare you, Denis?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am not surprised with Deputy Shortall but I am surprised with you, Denis. I really am. I did not think you would go attacking people for whom we are trying to work.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I had a couple of minutes left to finish my point and Deputy Naughten went heckling me in the middle of it.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: First, I raise the issue of the fair deal scheme, which I was a great believer in because it was helping and assisting in many cases. As late as last night - I will give the House the sums - an elderly couple's fair deal was assessed. They are not wealthy people and do not have much savings. This married couple both had previous spouses who are now deceased. For the gentleman, the fair...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: We have to be able to say to these people that they will be able to afford it and will be able to go up. They were looking forward to it. Many of them have gone previously to have one cataract removed-----