Results 81-100 of 351 for long speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...past six years, they will not get a euro or a penny to bring their houses back into use. Heretofore, the council was able to rely on the tenant purchase scheme to bring voids back into use but that scheme is no longer working. The ban on Airbnb letting and other short-term letting is not going to help people to rent long term.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I sympathise with our guests sincerely. Even though I am from Kerry and we are far away from Roscommon I feel for the residents. I have listened to all the different things that happened along the way. I cannot understand how people, who I will not give the benefit of naming, could impede or stop residents from protecting their homes or their property. I cannot understand why people would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...on the side of the county which I represent. Who knows about that and is the Minister aware of the situation? I ask because the issue is very serious. In the past there were people who fished along the bay but caught so much mackerel, even though they caught them a good few miles away, they gave them to the people inside in the bar or on the street. Those fishermen are not be to found...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...can live out their lives farming. At one time it used to be a privilege, an honour and an advantage when the farm was given to the young fella that inherited the farm. It was an advantage for a long time but now it is a millstone around their necks. If they were to do what their fathers who handed it down to them, did, there is a fair weight on their shoulders to do the same thing in 30...

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...They do such important work, whether it is in the childcare sector or helping people with mental health problems, in rural social schemes and delivering meals on wheels to elderly people who can no longer make a meal for themselves. This ensures they can stay in their homes for as long as possible without going into a nursing home or hospital. They do such valuable work for all those...

Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...in the market and insurance companies can decide not to cater for that at all. I honestly think that since Quinn left the market there has been a huge void. There has been no real competition and it has been a long time since we heard the kind of competition that he was giving. Sadly, the ordinary punter is suffering. PIAB is changing name and it will now be called the personal...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...days. Recently a 92-year-old woman spent two and a half days on a trolley. Other speakers have mentioned this issue. It is the natural desire of elderly people to stay in their homes for as long as they can. They feel they are being sent to the departure lounge if they have to go into a nursing home for the end of their days. They are really worried that the end is near. If they...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...as many nurses as any other country but they are not staying. Why? Are we not paying them properly? We hear they are going to Dubai and Australia. I happen on to an awful lot of what was long ago called an American wake, when someone was leaving our shores to go abroad for employment. I am happening across a lot of these now. They are going to Australia, Dubai and everywhere. Can we...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...for everyone unless we have all the money there is in the Central Bank. The Government must realise there is still a need for cars, whether those are powered by petrol, diesel or electricity, as long as those sources provide a viable and reliable option. We still need cars and people need assistance. There is no alternative for those people who need to go to work, school and...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...sadly people got addicted over the years and cannot give them up. I worry that young people may go a different way and find a cheaper alternative in the drugs, which may be more expensive in the long run. Those are my two reasons for opposing the increase on cigarettes.

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...expenses and mileage. To think we would try to take all the powers they have and entrust it to An Bord Pleanála. We know what An Bord Pleanála has been at in recent times and indeed in times long ago. It has not acted fairly and squarely much of the time. As for suggesting the taking of powers away from local authorities, given some of the things that are here by way of...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...these electric cars now coming up to Christmas and the worry that we have with providing electricity for the utilities it is needed for at present, where would they be? Would they be all parked along the M50, N7 or whatever it is, having given up because there would be no electricity to keep them going? We must be realistic. As for forcing people, the Minister has this idea, and his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...that on that Friday, Deputies Mattie McGrath, Michael Collins and I visited the AIB headquarters in Molesworth Street and I have no hesitation in saying that we were prepared to stay there for a long time. Had the decision did not come through and had there been no change, we maybe would still be there today. People and entities make mistakes. I heard Dr. Hunt saying on a number of...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...will provide for a single-stage application process. It allows for simultaneous applications for any future development to An Bord Pleanála. These are all going to be referred to An Bord Pleanála, along with substitute consent for all developments. It also allows for the refusal to consider applications for retention of unauthorised developments in certain cases. That is...

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...'s focus at present seems to be totally on Airbnb. The Government thinks that will sort out the issue. There are people who want to let their houses short-term and they will not let them long-term. The Government cannot make them do otherwise with any law it brings in. The fact that in our local authority last October we had 162 vacant houses, many of which have not been brought up to...

Back to School Costs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...cost an average of €210 per child. I have been asking about this. Extracurricular activities cost €178. Gym and sports equipment costs €77 and can go up to €120 at secondary school level. I could talk for a long time but I must give fair play to my colleagues.

Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...driver licence. They are asked for their public services card number. Many elderly people do not have that number. When they go to renew their licence after ten years they might have to travel long distances to Tralee to do so. Then they are asked for their public services card number. I do not see the need for that when the service already has a personal public service, PPS, number...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (5 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 738. To ask the Minister for Health if CoaguChek meters and self-test strips will be provided free of charge to persons who require long-term oral anticoagulant therapy with warfarin (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35655/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...scheme, one must have a haulage licence. Hauliers who are just supplying goods for themselves do not have a haulage licence and they are not benefiting. Again I say there are people travelling long distances going to work, putting petrol and diesel in their cars, and the Government will have to do more for them. They cannot wait until the budget. The Minister only gave farmers 2...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to transport goods or filling a construction work vehicle. Kerry is far away from everywhere and is impacted more than many other places. The increase in the cost of fuel is massive. The pumps along the road tell the story, with prices at €2.15 or €2.20 a litre. People are at their wits' end trying to stay on the road. Work is slowing. People building new houses and...