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Inshore Fishing: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Chair.

Inshore Fishing: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for recognising that we were the only group that tabled a motion representing inshore fishers. They have been left behind in many ways. The Minister spoke for ten minutes, but he did not say whether he would accede to our request for €12 million for inshore fishers in our coastal communities. They are on their knees. The situation has been spelled out for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Thank you, Chair, for giving me the opportunity. I am disgusted. I am disappointed. I had thought Deputy McConalogue, as a rural Minister, would do better and do more for farmers. Generally, at every turn they have been badly let down. We gave 800 years to trying to get the British out of these lands and blood was spilled on the streets outside 100 years ago to do just that. Now a UK...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Yes or no?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want an answer from the Minister - yes or no. Does he think it will drive up the cost of land?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: What is the Minister qualified to do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister will not answer the question. He has been waffling on all night and I have been listening. I listened to him all night last night. I asked him a straight question. Yes or no, will this drive up the cost of land for the ordinary farmer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: He will not answer the question, Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will ask him another.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister is wrong that farmers, if they want to stay farming at the level they are at and if they want to keep the same amount of stock, will have to increase their land area. How will that happen now when these foreign outside investors will come in here and buy 100,000 acres of land?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is what the Government and the investor say.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Coillte is a semi-State body. What role has the Government then? Does the State have any involvement with Coillte if it can go out and do something like this without discussing it with the Department? The State was always involved with Coillte going back years. What is the Government's role now then? Has it any role to play in this? Did the investors ask the Department if they would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Given the position in the UK and even Europe at present, did the investors not ask if they would qualify for all the premiums?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Does the Minister know if these Gresham investors have gone into any other countries in Europe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is getting harder and harder for farmers to acquire land, even as it is. There are people around now looking at lands - I have direct proof of this - and asking if certain places are suitable for the hen harrier or to be designated for the hen harrier. We all know what that means. If your lands are designated for the hen harrier, you cannot plant them for forestry. You will not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am asking the Minister at this late stage to reverse this decision and fund Coillte properly. Coillte did a good job over the years. I worked in forestries in my previous life. A great part of my time I gave in forestries, both private and Coillte. However, if the Government funded Coillte properly and if it were fair with the licences and dealt with them in a reasonable amount of time,...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: The people of Ireland are paying a high price for this conglomeration of a Government. I blame Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael for taking the Green Party on board and doing this to the people of Ireland. It is all right for them to say they know nothing about it. We know the Minister of State knew about this as far back as March 2021. She knew about Coillte plans to use such a private...

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Second Stage (24 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: They have buried them all without any money, some of them.

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Second Stage (24 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to talk about this very important topic here this evening. We all know that organ donation is so important. It can make a difference and ensure that someone's life is saved. It can save the lives of people who are suffering from organ failure, be it a heart transplant, a lung transplant or a kidney transplant. We must recognise also where a family member...

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Second Stage (24 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Those were the people who took the death grant away and left so many people disenfranchised. I am glad to say that the undertakers-----