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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 405. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be given to organisations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11381/24]

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I compliment the Labour Party of old, the Labour people who were here in the past, the good people who were here for many years, when the Acting Chairman, Deputy Ring, was also here.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: There were sound people in Labour at that time. We had the Springs, Moynihan-Cronins and other great people here-----

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----not people like those who are here now. I will tell the House why. The current people, at their conference, said they would build 1 million houses. The only thing these people would know about a house would be how to object to it-----

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----and how to object to developments. Those are the people here now.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: The objectors of today are of what I would call the useless Labour Party of today. It is defunct, obsolete and non-existent in the people's psyche. As far as the people are concerned, the party is irrelevant in Irish politics today. It is ironic to see its members talking about housing considering that they are the finest group of objectors and do-nothingers I have ever seen.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: They are leading in no way-----

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Sorry, Chair, it is a fright that they do not have the manners to keep their mouths shut. However, when you are irrelevant all you can do is shout inside here in the way they are doing.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I would like to use my time properly in saying we have many-----

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----difficulties in housing at present, and we have solutions to housing.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: We have practical-----

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: You can be sure of one thing: the policies we have do not mean we will stand up-----

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----and say we will build 1 million houses.

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is a fright they do not have the manners to let a person have his time.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any plans to open the Bus Éireann office in Killarney on a full-time basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11060/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance if the cost of importing a car can be reviewed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11177/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 206. To ask the Minister for Health he status of hearing aids for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10947/24]

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Tully and Sinn Féin for bringing forward this important motion tonight. Relaxing the carer's allowance means test and increasing the disability allowance, invalidity pension, illness benefit, carer's allowance and benefit, and the annual carer's support grant is of paramount importance. I believe that taking care of people in their own home is the best place you can have...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: The essence of this day is being undermined by the Government's superficial gestures and lack of substantial support for women. The Government's decision to hold a referendum on gender on International Women's Day is a disheartening example of this trend. This move, rather than being a genuine effort to uplift women, appears to be a cynical and hollow gimmick. It reduces a potential...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (5 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter in relation to taxi and hackney licences (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10770/24]