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Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: Deputy Sherlock is withdrawing his own name from it.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is important that signage and advertisements directing people to visitor centres and places that have built up trade would continue to be allowed in the future regardless of whatever is passed by the Dáil. If the amendments will help or assist that, they are obviously important. We cannot have a situation of the goalposts being moved in the middle of the game. For those who applied...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: Having heard the Minister's response, I am all the more concerned with regard to this specific issue. Anything the Minister said certainly does not convince me. I am listening attentively to what my colleagues are saying. We have not thought through the enormity of what we are doing here, the implications it will have and what it will mean. While I respect Deputies such as Deputy...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I have a big problem with this in that I do not want the labelling in English or Irish because, quite simply, it is making us the laughing stock of the rest of the world. Nowhere else do people feel fit to put these labels on alcohol. Why do we have to race to the bottom? We are speaking about putting it in Irish and English when we should not be putting it at all. It comes back to this...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: They are the words of wisdom of a man who is 104 years of age. I do not think we have to be labelling our products in any language to educate people to the fact if they do too much of one thing it is bad for them. I appreciate that Deputy Donnelly is very genuine in his motives but it is wrong. Coming back to the industry, it will put us at a disadvantage to everybody else. People in...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I take grave exception to this amendment. I will give an example of what might happen if we take this to its ultimate conclusion. Hairdressers were mentioned and many people attend them. Let us take the opening day of a new hairdresser premises. If people are invited to the launch, and taking this proposal to its ultimate conclusion, it could be wrong to offer a drink to would-be...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: If one lives long enough, a Cheann Comhairle, one will get to see everything. A short number of years ago, the Labour Party abolished 80 town councils bald-headed.

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: Regardless of their political persuasion, I adored the 744 councillors whose positions were eliminated. I did not care whether they represented Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Labour Party or Sinn Féin, or were Independents. They were doing great work in their localities. The Fine-Gael-Labour Party Government of that time was so arrogant that it thought it could impose whatever it...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: In my book, local councillors are not thanked half enough for the work they do. The Labour Party and Fine Gael thanked them by getting rid of them. It is hypocritical of Deputy Howlin to propose now that these councils be re-established. He and his ministerial colleagues did not listen to us at the time. We did not just ask them to retain the councils; we begged them to do so. It was not...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: They were just being so arrogant that they thought they could do whatever they wanted and get away with it.

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I would dearly love to see town councils coming back. I remember the great work that was done by people from across the party political divide in towns like Killarney, Tralee and Listowel over many decades. The work they did was so important. The re-establishment of town councils is of vital importance. They have a very important role to play in the future. They should never have been...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: One would not know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: As we have a quorum, we will now begin in public session. We have received apologies from Senator Richmond. I remind everyone to switch off their mobile phones. I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy McEntee, her officials and those in the public Gallery to this meeting. Today is European Day of Languages. It is important to celebrate the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for her comments and for remembering the late ambassador, H. E. Mr. Peter Kok. Members and I had gotten friendly with him and saw him as a dedicated and sincere man. We remembered him last week at our meeting as we were all upset at his untimely passing. He was a young man and had much living and work left to do. He was busy in his ambassadorial role, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I understand the two Senators are caught because of the vote now taking place in the Seanad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Seán Haughey for his contribution. Next week the committee will consider the subsidiarity report of the task force established to examine whether changes were needed. Has the Government considered the report and, if so, what is its position on it? There are many other issues of importance to people in Ireland. I am sure the Minister of State is acutely aware of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State. I neglected to say earlier that there had been a very interesting showcase earlier in Leinster House celebrating 45 years of our membership of the European Union. It was great to see a gentleman by the name of Michael explaining how he had benefited from the cross-border health initiative, whereby he had been able to have a bionic arm fitted following a very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I, too, thank the Minister of State.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: Following on from Sinn Féin's motion last night, when will the Government change the tenant purchase scheme to allow the 80% of people who are local authority tenants and who wish to purchase their homes the chance to so do? At the moment, anybody on an unemployment payment, a pension or who is not working is debarred from availing of the present tenant purchase scheme. When is it...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: They are entitled to own their own home if they want to.