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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Code (18 Apr 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I have read all that he read out. Farmers have been notified by the local authorities that they are liable for the tax, even for land that is zoned as strategic residential in reserve. That is wrong. These are active farmers. It is recognised there is no demand for this development land around Killarney. There is no demand as such. In 20...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Code (18 Apr 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Code (18 Apr 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the time to raise this important issue with the Minister of State. This residential zoned land tax is having an adverse effect on farmers, especially dairy farmers, close to our towns in County Kerry, and I am sure it is happening all around the country. It is happening in places such as Killarney, Tralee, Listowel and Castleisland. Many of these farmers have not slept...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the witnesses from the Department for their attendance. Having listened to Senator Cummins and to Deputy Gould, I accept that we all have different angles, but the one commonality is to provide as much housing as possible for people who need houses and who are in a desperate way in different situations around the different counties. In the neck of the woods that I come from,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will raise another issue. We have an awful lot of national primary and secondary roads in our county. Young fellows who want to build would get planning permission with no bother, except there are restrictions from the National Roads Authority and Transport Infrastructure Ireland, even with existing entrances or exits or whatever we want to call them. If you are coming out it is an exit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will, but I have no problem in saying it now so long as the officials listen to me, because these things are important. Everyone we can house counts, whether it is with planning permission or getting through the blockage so people can rent houses that are vacant. We should look at everything. I am glad to have got the opportunity to speak and thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Apr 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18004/23]

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, thank the Labour Party for this motion. Schools like St. Oliver’s in Killarney, the Presentation in Killarney and St. Brendan’s Secondary School have had a massive increase in the number of pupils because of the influx of the Ukrainian fraternity. They need more facilities. Schools in places like Faha, Listry, Fossa, Teernaboul and Raheen have all done wonderful work....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government set up Irish Water. Existing local authority staff of all grades throughout the country who work in the area of providing water services have been informed that if they do not move across to Uisce Éireann, they will face cuts to their pay and conditions. The CEOs of local authorities are refusing to meet staff to even discuss matters. I am calling on the Taoiseach to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Regarding the €800, if the local authority rented the property from the house owner and the tenant was able to, he or she should pay according to his or her means and circumstances. I object in the strongest way to the Government's proposal that houses should be compulsorily purchased. Instead, the Government should talk to the owners and try to find out whether they would be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: We need to do more because the State will never be able to build enough new houses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is a plus and a big bonus and start that we have these houses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak. As the Taoiseach knows, I travel nearly every road in Kerry on a consistent basis. One of the roads I travel very often is the road from Kenmare, through Kilgarvan, down to Clonkeen then Flesk and into Killarney. Without going along the road, I can count in my head that there are 55 vacant houses from the top of the town in Kenmare down to the...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Ivana says she is going to build 1 million houses. I would not trust the Labour Party to build a hen house.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: If they did cobble something together the fox would clean it in one night.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: This very same lady back in 2006 complained about the houses around the Ring of Kerry. She said they were a dot and a blot on the landscape.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will say here to everyone, Labour included, that I am proud of the lights in the windows around the Ring of Kerry when I stand at the top of Coomakista or Mountain Stage. Whether I am on the top of Anablaha or Knocknagoshel, I am proud to see the people trying to live in those hills, glens and valleys and I will take no dictation from the Labour Party or anyone. At the same time, I do...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----telling them what to do and what not to do. They want to stop us cutting turf, and at the same time they want to import everything into Ireland. We are an island nation, and it is going to be a bigger carbon footprint if we have to import beef from Brazil, coal from somewhere else, and gas from Russia. At the same time the Government wants to paralyse us here in this country. They...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: On a point of order, since this debate started-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----the Labour Party members have interrupted every speaker.