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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Sports Broadcasting: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Chair for giving me the opportunity.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak. Planning is hurting a great number of people in our county who cannot get planning to build houses for themselves. It is the Government Planning Regulator who is the cause of this. These people just want planning permission. They will build the house themselves and they will foot the bill, as dear as it is, but they are not getting the planning...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the chance to talk on this very important Bill. I am totally and absolutely against what is proposed. I do not think it is necessary in the first place. We do not have these kinds of demonstrations, that I know of, on my side of the country, in our county. In a lot of places we have practising GPs whom people go to daily. People cannot get to their GPs. How will these...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are talking about windfall gains in the energy sector and deciding how to divvy out the gains from companies that have made windfall profits. This should not be happening at all because the companies should be charging according to what it costs them to make the electricity and taking only a reasonable profit, yet, as we know, they are making massive profits. The Government is trying to...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too thank the Independent Group and especially Deputy Harkin for being honest and truthful in what she said. What is wrong about this is that the Government is being ambivalent about the number of acres. It is not telling us the truth. There is no talk about compensation, and the Government just wants to ram this through. It is hitting the farmers on three fronts with these proposals:...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can I get in when I come back from the vote?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses to the committee. One of them said that the State has invested in water modelling but it has not invested in treatment plants around our towns and villages. This cut to the nitrates derogation is going to especially hurt and affect small family dairy farmers. One such farmer was on to me earlier this evening. He is milking 60 cows and his Teagasc adviser told him...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Vice Chairman. I must declare it may construed by some that I have a conflict because I have been operating a school transport business started by my late father in 1956.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are still on the go, with a very small operation. I am conversant with buses and the problems. I welcome the witnesses and thank them for coming. There are issues here, especially for the private operators. Drivers are the issue that every transport operator in County Kerry is talking about, and I know most of them. It is impossible to get drivers. I can understand where Dublin Bus...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is another issue that affects the younger fellows, which is that drivers may get a licence to drive other types of large vehicles at 19 years of age, but that does not happen with buses. If a fellow wants to be a bus driver, he will be 23 or maybe 24 years of age. The other issue is mechanics. I have a mechanic on to me at the present time who has the work part of his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Mr. Kent for his answer. All I can say to him is that the private operators out there are saying that they do not want to jeopardise the lives of anyone, young or old. In that vein, they are saying that if the drivers that go over a certain age were medically tested by Bus Éireann's doctors, once or twice a year, surely that would determine whether they were physically and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Please, but it is no good to rob Peter to pay Paul. That was never a good plan, so I am asking Mr. Kent to look at that. We want that route back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Mr. Kent very much.

A5 Route Upgrade: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this very important motion. I welcome the people from the North, from County Tyrone and elsewhere, who are here to agitate for their road to be improved. In that vein, I will support them if there is a vote. We see in County Kerry what is happening to us, as I outlined earlier, regarding our proposed Killarney bypass. The most recent record of the...

A5 Route Upgrade: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2023)

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A5 Route Upgrade: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: The problem emanates from when the Government decided to give 2:1 funding in favour of public transport rather than our roads infrastructure.

A5 Route Upgrade: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael succumbed to the tail wagging the dog, or the Green Party, on this. We do not see much public transport. I do not know what people in the north west see by way of public transport, but we do not see it in Kerry anyway. Rather, we see big, flashy buses in Dublin, double-deckers or whatever, and one or two people at the most inside them. That is where the...

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too thank Radio Kerry. I will not list all the names but I know each and every one of them and thank them from the bottom of my heart for what they are doing for the people of Kerry and indeed the people of west Cork and the surrounding areas. However, we are here to talk about RTÉ. We are talking about taxpayers' money and the licence fee that people pay. I am questioning what...

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are expected to believe that the Minister met Siún Ní Raghallaigh on Saturday week last and that she never told the Minister she had asked for the resignation of Dee Forbes. I find it hard to believe because it was under the Minister's watch that Ms Ní Raghallaigh was appointed, last November. We are asked to believe this. Workers who do the nitty gritty work had to take...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Killarney bypass is one of the road projects that the Government and the Greens have halted in recent days. This bypass has been promised for over 25 years. This road is to go from Farranfore to Lissivigeen and from Lissivigeen to Castlelough and Muckross. All the access roads into Killarney and the town itself are choked on a daily basis. The financial well-being of the county is...