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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance Building to Strengthen the European Union (Resumed): European Council on Foreign Relations (29 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: On behalf of the members, I warmly welcome Ms Almut Möller again and thank her for having come here today and for the special effort that she made to get here. We appreciate that. Her presentation has been informative. We have certainly learnt much from it. I thank Ms Möller again for it. I wish her continued good look with her excellent work. I will suspend the meeting for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I warmly welcome the Minister of State with responsibility for European Union Affairs, Deputy McEntee, back to the committee this afternoon as part of our regular engagements on the work of the General Affairs Council. The Minister of State will update the joint committee on issues which were discussed at last week's meeting in Brussels, including the EU's next five-year strategic agenda and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I do not mean to put the Minister of State on the spot with a question and she can answer it in rotation with the rest of the members. She mentioned Commissioner Hogan and the package for beef farmers. Since that announcement there have been many questions as to how it will make its way to the people who need it most, to put it bluntly. These are the people producing beef, not the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I ask the Minister of State to make her concluding remarks and comments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I sincerely thank the Minister of State for being here today. Our discussion has been informative as always. We appreciate the fact that she always takes the time to come here. I know she has an awful lot on her plate but these meetings ensure that we keep up a strong dialogue. She is our main conduit to Government and to what is happening so we appreciate her very much. I thank here...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (29 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I propose that we suspend the meeting for a few minutes to allow the Minister of State to leave the room. I also suggest that we take a photo with her outside the room, if that is okay. When we return, the meeting will go into private session.

Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: We are dealing with the people affected daily in our clinics. We are dealing with the upset and trauma being caused to families and the damage inflicted on their financial situations. It is no wonder that we and others have brought motions like this before the House. We want to see the Minister bring in legislation that has teeth and power and that will be meaningful to the people in our...

Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: The people in charge of giving out money would not be in their jobs without the taxpayers. Those people, however, are now trying to cod their customers with their fancy slogans and advertisements. The banks are putting up pictures of a farmer and a tractor with a plough behind it. The slogan being used is "We're Backing Brave". It is absolute nonsense.

Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I would love to see that being put to bed. Let the message go out that our banks, which we supported, are now turning their backs on us.

Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: They are not loaning money. I am thinking of a nice respectable family, a young couple starting out or a young individual, perhaps between 20 years old and 30 years old, deciding to go to the bank to see if it might be possible to get a loan for a business or a mortgage. Those people are all wasting their time because nothing is being done to help them. All we see are the fancy...

Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I was terribly disappointed that the Government would not take our proposal on board. When we looked at other parts of the world, we did not need to go further than England, Scotland and Wales to see how many post offices were lost. When one compares that with countries with proper community banking, one sees that they saved their post offices. We wore ourselves to a thread trying to tell...

Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank our Whip, Deputy Mattie McGrath, and David Mullins and Máiread McGrath in his office, for the preparatory work they did in bringing forward this very important motion. Each and every one of us, from all political parties and none, are all dealing with one issue which is the same to all of us, namely, the people who are affected by the crisis that has not gone away. There may...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: My question is for the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection. Although it was promised that the waiting list for carer's allowance would be reduced, people must currently wait for more than three months for a decision. This is a disgrace. All that people who take care of elderly people or people who are ill and who keep people at home want is their allowance to be paid....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: They are swinging everywhere.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 194. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22287/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 224. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding FreeStyle Libre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22400/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 229. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22413/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 245. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22496/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 247. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22501/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Day Care Services (28 May 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons (details supplied) were informed they could no longer attend day care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22516/19]