Results 101-120 of 397 for long speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

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: .... There are people who would build their own houses on their land but are denied the right to do that. If they go to another location they will be denied the right to build because they are not long enough there under the residency rule. I am asking for that to be looked at as well.

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.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...need more facilities to cater for the massive influx. This is urgent. It is an emergency. I hope the application from Knocknagree National School is not one of the 58 because it has been on the list for a long time. There are other issues such as school transport. There is a difficulty with acquiring new buses. Contractors have asked that the 20-year rule be extended for two or...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Challenges Facing Providers of Tourist Accommodation in Ireland: Discussion (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses to the meeting. What the Government did in passing this Bill to stop Airbnb and short-term lets and insisting on only allowing long-term lets is very regrettable. That is where the problem started for many of the people sitting behind me.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Challenges Facing Providers of Tourist Accommodation in Ireland: Discussion (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...? We are only a week on from St. Patrick's Day and there is a scarcity of beds in Killarney. At the same time, there is a move to limit Airbnb operators and other short-term lets and to say they must let long term. How can that be fair?

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...asked several times about it. The Government is not building enough quickly enough. It takes two years to do the paperwork for a housing scheme and it takes only a year to build the houses. That is long enough. There are no incentives for house owners. I am not calling them landlords because that is an old English word and we hated what the landlords did to people. There are no...

Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... Then the Green Party's leader, the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, had the gall to try to stop people cutting turf. Those are the people who have a bit of heat, and I will stand by them for as long as I am elected here. I appreciate those people who do their best in the summer months to collect enough turf to tide them over until the winter. A lot of this winter was very cold and people...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government has handed over the provision of sewerage and water services to Irish Water and the long-awaited Kilcummin sewerage scheme is now under way. It is in the Lough Leane catchment. We all welcome this. Some €9 million is to be spent. The problem now is that Irish Water is deviating from what Kerry County Council, the local authority, always did. It is looking for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (7 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... I ask the Minister of State to provide a funding incentive to help with the connection fee. Residents are being asked to pay in excess of €3,900 for connection. The scheme is 3.7 km long and the project is to take sewerage from Kilcummin village down along the road to meet with the Killarney scheme and to treat it in the Killarney treatment plant. The cost is approximately...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...Thousands go through the village of Kilgarvan but they do not stop there. We do not benefit locally through the small shops and it is the same in Gneevgullia with the small pubs. The big bulk of tourists go along the seaside and maybe in places there they are in hotels. Airbnbs have popped up and there are a few of them in Kilgarvan and in Gneevgullia. They are going to be wiped out....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...bring back bedsits and start with something like that but leave the people in rural Ireland who were set up for this alone. There is not many of them. There is no way in the world that 12,000 homes for long-term lets would result from this. We need to go back to the drawing board and try something else, such as building houses or doing something about the tax on long-term lets....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... My first question is on the confusion that has been created about broadleaf versus spruce. There is no way in the world that broadleaf will be as productive or as valuable a resource as sawn long timber to be used in the construction of houses. Am I right in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...have do not want us to plant spruce trees and do not want us to cut them. They want us to remain static. I do not blame the witnesses one bit in the world for going to Scotland to bring in sawn long timber. At the same time, the same Minister will stand up and say that we must build timber frame houses, but from where are we going to get the timber if we do not import it? The witnesses...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...but the rules are such now that they will not get planning permissions. Members combined in here and voted to get rid of Airbnbs. You can be there from June to January and these will not turn into long-term lets. The big problem is landlords are getting out because of two things, namely, they have to pay 52% tax on what they get and if something goes wrong, they cannot get tenant out....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...for elderly people, but not all elderly people wish to go into these places. I will always remember the words of one elderly person who was close to me that said going into a nursing home or a long-stay place in a hospital was like going in to a departure lounge. The person dearly wished to stay in their own homes as long as he or she could. I do not know whether Mr. Watt is aware...

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... Farmers will have to reduce their stock. There is no concern in the Government about food security. In California, we hear it costs $1 for one egg and $12 for a dozen eggs. It will not be long before that happens here because people have to reduce the number of hens they have and need a herd number to have hens. We have all of this carry-on. The Government is leaving the people...

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ..., never lose. When they did, the Government bailed them out with taxpayers' money. When people put their money into the banks, they get very little interest for it. In fact, if they leave it there long enough, it depreciates in value. People with mortgages are suffering. I am adding to the pleas for an interest relief scheme to help those people. The Government could help more...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...Ryan, out in the summer telling us we should not be cutting turf but I am glad that where I come from they are burning turf and they have turf to burn. I hope they will be allowed to have it for a long time because there is no alternative coming from the Government. The Government is not helping the people but it is trying to ensure that everything wrong is being done to them by stopping...

Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...in 2023. At the rate we are going, which is about 20 roads per year, I put it to the Minister that it will take us 38 more years to get through that list. Most of the people will be dead it will take that long. I will be long gone, although the Minister will not be because he is a young man. Those projects are listed and ready to go. They are sanctioned and approved and all we need is...