Results 101-120 of 211 for cork speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Cork County Council tells us that the road will open some time next year. There are many reports and investigations going on. This road was built by people with shovels, crowbars and sledgehammers. We have all kinds of machinery now, but this local road is preventing people from Kerry from going to Cork or Ballingeary and vice versa. It is totally unfair. If this were happening here in...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...move anywhere without a car. In places in the west such as Glencar or Cahirsiveen, the next stop to the west is America and people must travel east for everything. Even to visit a hospital in Cork, it takes two and a half hours to travel from Cahirsiveen or Dingle, and there is no other way of doing it because there is no public transport, no train or bus, at the time one might want it....

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Madigan, to sign the hare coursing licence on which so many people in the south of the country, especially Kerry, Limerick and parts of Cork, depend. I ask the Government to sign the licence, which will cost it nothing. If it is not signed this week, it will be too late. We already had a carbon tax, which the Government has...

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of incessant rain resulted in a famine that caused more than a third of Ireland's population to die. There was a heavy snowfall in 1917, when it snowed for two months, with up to 52 mm even in Cork. There was severe flooding in Dublin in 1802 and the big wind in 1839, which blew most of the country asunder. Before the Famine in the 1840s, there was unusually wet weather. In 1903, there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Lusitania Museum and Related Matters: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will the planning application be made to Cork County Council or directly to An Bord Pleanála?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...last count, on the current bypass which is not sufficient, an estimated 18,600 vehicles passed by daily. It is probably higher now. The road links the Ring of Kerry, the Killorglin road and the Cork to Tralee road. The other leg will run from Lissivigeen to Castlelough to avoid the need for traffic from Kenmare and the Ring of Kerry to pass through the heart of Killarney town. All...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... If an elderly person gets two weeks' respite care in a year, for that entire area that hospital can cater for only 24 people. For the entire area from Poulgorm Bridge where one turns off the Cork road back to the end of Lauragh, through Kenmare and likewise down into Sneem as far as Castlecove or Cahirdaniel and all the places in between it is not enough. I am asking for that hospital...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...tremendous maternity services at Tralee General Hospital and I congratulate the doctors, nurses and midwives who provide those services. They are exceptionally good, as are maternity services at Cork University Hospital. For many people in County Kerry, Cork University Hospital is closer than hospitals in Kerry. As stated by Deputy Michael Collins, it has to be recognised that many...

Northern Ireland: Statements (11 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the country. We are very grateful for the cross-border directive initiative, which allows us to take patients who would not otherwise be seen here in the South of Ireland to the North. Patients in Cork and Tralee hospitals were put on waiting lists for a simple cataract procedure and have to wait four to six years to have this done, perhaps losing their sight in the meantime. I am...

Development of Primary Care: Statements (29 May 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the "reconfiguration" of the ambulance service. That was the word it used. What it actually meant was a reduction in ambulance services. When the ambulance leaves Killarney with a patient for Cork University Hospital, CUH, when it drops off the patient, the ambulance is told to press a button in the ambulance as they are coming out of CUH saying they are available for work. Instead of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Statement of Strategy 2018 to 2020 and Project Ireland 2040: Discussion (29 May 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the national secondary road, starting at Kenmare Place in Killarney all the way out the Muckross Road, day in, day out, coming in and going out. People from around the country, whether Limerick, Cork or elsewhere, must go halfway around Killarney town. It is a major obstacle. I fear that people will think it is not worthwhile to continue to Muckross House or out to the national park if...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the height of regard and respect for Deputies Eamon Ryan and Catherine Martin of the Green Party, I do not agree with the motion they have put forward. It focuses on Dublin and touches on Galway, Cork and Limerick but there is a lot of territory beyond Limerick and Cork where people need their cars for transport. I agree with having more public transport but it cannot be at the expense...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raised the fair deal scheme two weeks ago and referred to the slow rate at which funds were being made available to Cork and Kerry. The Minister denied there was a problem but it was in the newspapers yesterday and the leader of Fianna Fáil also raised it. That is because it is an issue. Hundreds of farmers came here yesterday. Where is the legislation for the fair deal for farmers...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...our airlines could be more proactive. If when booking a holiday, the passenger were specifically asked to give a passport number and expiry date, it would help. Enhancing the service in the Cork office would require further investment but it would create balance and take pressure off the office in Dublin. It would service the lower part of the country. One could get a passport and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...he never realised that those extra dairy cows would produce calves that would be in competition with the suckler farmers. I worry about suckler farmers in rural areas such as south Kerry, west Cork and that entire area. Given the effort they put into producing good quality beef cattle weanlings I would honestly say they are supplying half the country with beef cattle, up the midlands...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to welcome Mr. Corley and the meat industry representatives. When I look across at him, I immediately think of the thousands of people who attended the beef plan meetings all around Kerry and west Cork, because I attended each and every one of them as well. I only wish that a lot of them were looking in today to see what is going on, because their lives and enterprises are on the line....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (9 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: 338. To ask the Minister for Health the amount by which the home help budget has been reduced for counties Kerry and Cork in 2019; the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16135/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (9 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the amount by which the HSE has reduced funding for the fair deal scheme for counties Kerry and Cork; the reason for the reduction in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16141/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...is vital to help elderly and vulnerable people to remain in their homes for as long as possible. Everyone will agree this is the most cost-effective way to care for the elderly. The Kerry and Cork budget for this vital service has been cut by €3 million, however. Some genius of an official did not include travel in the costing. The home help staff do not have wings and cannot...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (27 Mar 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...have copped on and know what the Government it is at. It is only a ruse to please some Minister in the UK Parliament at the expense of small fishermen in Kenmare Bay and Dingle and all the way along west Cork who are barely eking out a living from our waters. It is totally wrong. I do not blame the Minister of State personally, but I do blame her as part of the Government. I also blame...