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EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (3 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I would like to share time with Deputies Danny Healy-Rae and Michael Collins.

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (3 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: Over the last week or ten days, I have read and followed closely the ministerial comments about the Mercosur trade deal. There seems to be a conflict. The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton, tried to sell the deal when he took Leaders' Questions in this Chamber yesterday. He did this in his answers to Deputies Micheál Martin and Mary Lou...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Felling Licences (3 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for giving me permission. This is a debate I have had with the Minister already. Despite the Government's climate action plan, not enough is being done to encourage people to plant forestry. The period has been reduced from 20 years to 15 years. The grant involved does not cover the cost of planting a forest, fencing it and fertilising it in the same...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (3 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 47. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the price of cattle nationally will be addressed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28551/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (3 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all new apprenticeship programmes since 2017 will receive the same allowances for apprentices attending college as apprenticeships developed prior to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29282/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (3 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new apprenticeships developed since 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29283/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (3 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new apprentices enrolled per apprenticeship programme developed since 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29284/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (3 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if equality of allowances will be sought for apprenticeships in Budget 2020; the estimated cost in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29285/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (3 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 264. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the matter of cattle prices here will be addressed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28538/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (3 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 314. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application for the sports capital grant by a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28370/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Testing (3 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 325. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide a vehicle testing centre for Listowel, County Kerry to serve the town and its environs in view of the fact that persons in the area currently must travel long distances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28463/19]

Mental Health Services Reports: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Fianna Fáil for bringing forward this motion. I thank the Minister of State for being actively interested in County Kerry. He has come down on a number of occasions connected with different aspects of his portfolio. I will welcome him any time he wants to come down. I invite him now because there are other issues with which we want him to deal in County Kerry and I look...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report Stage (2 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I commend the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Boxer Moran, on bringing this important issue before the House. The protection of the right of people to be in their homes and everything that can be done to enhance the protection of family homes are terribly important. I truly appreciate the amendments proposed by different Members of the House, but I have a concern about the amendments....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: What the Minister said is very interesting. Any person who tuned into what he said will be really interested. For the past three minutes, he has been trying to sell this deal. He has been trying to justify it, he has been trying to take the sting out of it-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----and he has been trying to say that there is no harm in this agreement. How can he, as a senior Minister of long standing, and a man highly respected across the political spectrum, spend three minutes saying what he has just said? He is trying to sell the unsellable and defend the indefensible. This agreement is a direct attack on our farming community. How in the name of God can the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I ask him that question on behalf of the IFA, the ICMSA, and the various farming organisations. On behalf of every farmer I am pleading with the Minister, the Taoiseach and the rest of the Government to wake up and realise that our farmers need to be defended. They are watching what is going on here today and they wanted to hear the Minister's views. They knew that this issue was going to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: With regard to the Mercosur deal, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay will potentially put 99,000 tonnes of South American beef into our markets in Europe. This is at a time when Ireland produces the best beef in the world. The Minister can have no doubt about that. There are no hormones, full traceability and the highest of production standards. Irish beef is an excellent product....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (2 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for special education teaching hours review by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27671/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (2 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 299. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27490/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 Jul 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a MRI appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27577/19]