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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Those are the antics of the Deputy to interrupt me and those have been his antics. I never denied the Deputy the right to talk about the people of north Cork and if I am talking about the people of Kerry here, I tell the Deputy not to interrupt me at this stage.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am not answerable to Deputy Sherlock inside this Chamber at any time. I was elected by the people of Kerry and it is them and them alone I will answer to and not to the Deputy. I am telling him not to be interrupting me.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want the House to hear of this person I represent, or who is one of the people I represent in this redress scheme proposed by the Government. I tried to contact the agency involved and I gave the timeline of when he was born and of when he was fostered out. He could clearly prove that it was at nine months. He was told, I believe by Tusla who represented the State, that perhaps it was...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the proposers of the motion and I support their concern but I do not support their argument in its entirety. There is pressure on now and it has extended for a while, which is fine. However, we need to solve the problem. I welcome the Minister of State to his new position. I support People Before Profit's concerns, but we must do something permanent about them. I have been...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses today. It is very informative and educational to hear what they have said. I also welcome the concerned observers in the Public Gallery, not least Jason Fleming, my neighbour from Inchicorrigane, Kilcummin. We are at a critical juncture because, as was said, there is going to be a gap in supply created by what has happened over the past three or four years. My first...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I am someone who mounded in forestries going back years since track excavators were first used. Ploughs were used before that and there was a lot of hand work before that as well. We mounded places, only for them having been properly drained, that were quite useless for any other product. Is it correct that timber grown off that land, once it is grown properly, is as useful as timber grown...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: That is very important to spell that out, especially to a Minister in charge of forestry who is trying to ram it down our throats that broadleaf can be as productive as Sitka spruce on that kind of land.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: It has been a major mistake of this Government and the last, and even the Government before that. They would not give a grant to people who wanted to plant marginal ground. People had to have 80% green ground and only 20% marginal ground. That has been the policy of the Governments since 2010 or 2011 and that policy is wrong. We have a lot of marginal ground that would be good for...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes, that is fine.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I have just one question concerning the Gresham House deal. Is it felt this will drive up the price of forestry land in rural areas where farmers might be wishing to buy such properties themselves?

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

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: They have not been given-----

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for this motion. If all of us who have been talking about housing in here for the last seven or eight years put one block on top of the other every day since we started talking we would have a building built that was taller than the Empire State Building in New York. That is the gospel truth. There are a few things I have raised several times before. We have 171...

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about this. I am opposed to the setting up of a citizens' assembly, because we are the elected people in here to represent the people out there. Hand-picking a group of people, as the Government did in previous citizens' assemblies, is not fair. When one thinks about it, one of those assemblies which was very important did not include any...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: In the first place, they only took 2 cent off agricultural diesel.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply, but he dealt with everything except what I asked him to address. Will he agree to hold a high-level investigation into what is happening? That is what I am asking him for. This issue is serious and is hurting farmers all over the country, including in Kerry of course and most importantly. It is also hurting consumers, though. The farmers are not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to bring to the Taoiseach's attention the crisis with the price of fertilisers and what is happening with farming in Ireland today. This is the second year that Irish farmers will have to pay unrealistic, exorbitant, over-the-top prices for fertilisers. In recent weeks Germany, other European countries and the UK are paying 40% less than our farmers for fertilisers. They pay...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding or schemes available for first-time builders who qualified for a mortgage but, due to the increased costs of building, are unable to complete their home with the mortgage allocated and now find they have an incomplete house and no access to further funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8464/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (21 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person is entitled to tuition fees (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8109/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (21 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on funding (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8460/23]