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Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: You started at me and I have ten seconds left.

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about young people's work. I have been an employer for many years and as an employer I know too well that Friday evening comes very fast. I believe in paying people equally for the same type of work but there is a thing called starting off and training people and getting them used to rules and regulations. They have to be up for that. In all this...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Climate Change Policy (13 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. However, again, considering this rewetting will have a desperate effect on people who drained their lands and have successfully farmed them for many years. Take the people of north Kerry. It is a vibrant farming community and they have great hurling teams. Kerry has the best football team in the country most years, but we also have massive...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Climate Change Policy (13 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to raise this very important matter with the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers. I will outline first the deep concern expressed by many farmers in rural areas, especially in rural Kerry. The farmers whose lands people are talking about rewetting are the farmers who are working the hardest. They drained their land and were...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 67. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development how increased funding for the local improvement scheme in County Kerry can be secured as there are 650 applications still waiting on the list. [28561/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity in the Chamber to respectfully ask the Minister to provide more funding for the local improvement scheme, LIS, in Kerry. At present, we have 659 LIS applications and 14 community applications, that is, 673 applications, waiting for funding. Of course, I thank her for the €799,000 she gave earlier in the year which will do only 15 roads, but that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for her reply. Deputy Humphreys is a Minister from a rural county and she understands the problem that we have. I appreciate the funding that we have received but we must go forward. We have 673 roads on the list. The Department of Finance may be telling the Minister that these are private roads; they are not. They are public roads that were not taken in charge...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister asked the question: what capacity have the local authorities? In 2005 and 2006, we did exactly 111 roads each year in County Kerry because a certain Deputy was up here at the time and he was able to cajole the then Ministers into providing extra funding later in the year when it was not spent in other places. They have the capacity to do the roads all right if we get the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I know that the Minister has.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I did not know that. I will have to have a word with them about that.

Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on the motion. I thank Sinn Féin for giving us the opportunity to talk about this very important matter with the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and the Minister of State, Deputy Kieran O'Donnell. We have great firefighters in Kerry and we need them. We need them to stay in their jobs. Right around the Ring of Kerry, from Sneem,...

Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: We support the Minister of State 100% in this. This is a real issue affecting youngsters especially. We do not know what they are vaping or what is in the vapes. We need to control this. Schools and parents are outraged by what is going on at present. We are 100% behind the Minister of State with this Bill.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: More people want to leave.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1389. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if consideration will be given to reintroducing the emergency hardship scheme, in view that it was a way that a local improvement scheme application could be prioritised if a resident on the road met certain medical conditions. [28562/23]

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get a few seconds to talk about this very serious matter. It is the people on marginal land who had to work and drain their land to make it productive who will be hurt. We cannot flood fertile land. We cannot flood the plains of County Kildare, the Golden Vale in County Tipperary, east Cork or Limerick, but the Government will try to do it in south and north Kerry, which...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Senator was not elected by the people. She came in the back door.

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak about this very important topic. I thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan for the opportunity. The biggest problem we have in Kerry at present is that people who want to build their own houses are being blocked by the planning regulator. This has been a serious issue since last June. Many people in their own areas cannot get permission because of...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: At those gates in Bandon and in Rathkeale, I recall being asked several times by farmers why were they not being paid for the fifth quarter. The fifth quarter is every other bit of the carcase, which the farmer does not get paid for, yet the factories are getting paid for that. If this food regulator is to have any real purpose or benefit to farmers, the regulator needs to go after that...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: We need to give the agrifood regulator teeth to investigate certain rules that apply at meat factories, such as the four-movement rule. My contention and that of all the farmers is that the four-movement rule is unfair, as is the 30-month rule whereby farmers are penalised when cattle are more than 30 months of age by the time they go to the factory. I have been raising these issues for...