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Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----that this service is available and they do not realise that even if they do not have the money, they can afford it because they can get the money from the credit union. Many people think they must have the money and that, because they do not have a couple of thousand euro to put upfront, they cannot avail of the service.

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is a shame what the Government is doing. The Minister of State should be fighting about this himself and making a noise about it. I say that in a very fair and ordinary way.

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: On a point of order, I am sorry but things moved quickly. Is the Minister of State saying that, after all our contributions, that is all he is going to say?

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: If the Minister of State was listening, I made a contribution on more than that.

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I was of course.

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is not agreed. The Minister of State did not deal with our contributions.

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I, too, want to speak to this very important topic. It is important to have good governance and to have systems and checks to make sure the people operating in the healthcare service are up to standard. A person driving a digger has to have proper tickets, safe passes etc. before they are allowed onto a building site. That applies to any job of work now, rightly so. We must have...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Direct Election of Mayor Plebiscite Regulations 2019: Motion (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: Is he denying that it is a Fine Gael Government?

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Direct Election of Mayor Plebiscite Regulations 2019: Motion (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: This is definitely the highest blackguarding that I have ever seen in my life. I will remind the Minister of State what a man sitting in the seat alongside him said on the record of the Dáil, and I hate talking about somebody when he is not here but that was the former Minister, Phil Hogan. I made an impassioned plea on behalf of our town councils and our town councillors of all...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Direct Election of Mayor Plebiscite Regulations 2019: Motion (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----misquote anybody. That is what he said.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Direct Election of Mayor Plebiscite Regulations 2019: Motion (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: This was a big Minister at the time and he was telling his own foot soldiers on the ground to go away and scratch themselves. That was what he was telling them.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Direct Election of Mayor Plebiscite Regulations 2019: Motion (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: It was an absolute disgrace then and it is a disgrace now to leave towns such as that without town councils. It was a stupid act by a stupid Government and it will forever be remembered for doing that and for robbing very genuine and committed public representatives who were not in it for the money. The Ceann Comhairle knows as well as I do, and better because he has been there longer than...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Direct Election of Mayor Plebiscite Regulations 2019: Motion (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: ------and they wanted to represent people. They were not talking about €90,000 or €120,000 for directly elected mayors. All they wanted to do was to represent the people in their communities. The Government robbed them of that and now the Government is trying to say it is empowering-----

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Direct Election of Mayor Plebiscite Regulations 2019: Motion (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----local democracy by putting these directly elected mayors in place. I would have no problem with that happening if the Government had started where it left off in the blackguarding that it did in the past by reinstating the town councils. The Government cost the nation a fortune because if anybody thinks it saved money, the Ceann Comhairle knows that is not true. It cost an absolute...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Direct Election of Mayor Plebiscite Regulations 2019: Motion (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: Try to reply.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Funding (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for funding by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16802/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: 173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter in relation to a road (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16891/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: If it takes us 20 minutes to read, we may as well pack up. We should be able to digest it within five minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: I acknowledge that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with the Football Association of Ireland (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Healy-Rae: Does the Chairman have my name on his list?