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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: I am glad to get this opportunity. I welcome all the witnesses. I am firmly and squarely behind the people who operate Airbnbs. I apologise to Ms Ní Mhurchú. She was in Killarney last Monday night, in my home town, but I was not able to be there because of prearranged meetings. I am glad my daughter, Maura Healy-Rae, was there. I know a lot of what is going on about this...

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: Could she envisage a young family with school-going children living full term out in the country where she lives if they do not have a car?

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: These are the logistical problems that exist. Ms Ní Mhurchú is just two and a half miles from her nearest town or village but what would the situation be if it was a distance of four miles or five miles? There is a rumour that there is supposed to be school transport for all but that is not the case when you try to get it for someone. How are people meant to get to the local shop...

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: I feel so strongly about this, I would have stayed here until 12 midnight to get my say in. I really feel for these people. As I said to Ms Ní Mhurchú, I was sorry that I could not be at the meeting on Monday night.

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: Some counties – I will not name them – have already agreed to allow properties that are over the seven year threshold to continue, but Kerry will not do so. I will further the proposal that Ms Ní Mhurchú mentioned. We will keep our end up; I promise that.

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. Until around 2011 or 2012, the ambulances were controlled locally but then a centralised service was brought in by the HSE which operated from counties Dublin and Donegal. There were two centres in total. Since then, the whole thing has gone wrong. Before I go any further, I want to thank all the ambulance drivers in County Kerry...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (28 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: 661. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in relation to the HSE cyberattack (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10155/23]

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: He wants to support the Green Party.

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to discuss the important issues of excise duty, VAT and the significant cost of fuel for people on the road. The Minister stated that excise duty and VAT rates would be increased in, I believe, June and September. I appeal to him not to restore the rates of excise duty and VAT unless the cost of fuel imports reduces to what it was in January 2022 before the...

Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are thankful for the supports that have been given to many people. However, I must say that in the past number of hours, I have got a woeful lot of criticism from working-class people; those in the middle who are paying for all of this. As recently as ten minutes ago, a man was on to me about his ESB bill. He is a working person. His wife also has to work. They have big bills and a...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I am all right. I will be fine.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about this Bill tonight. The most joyous occasion in the world has to be when a little baby is born to a mother, whether it is a boy or a girl. It is very sad to think this is what we are doing to those people who suffered in a darker time when people had different and wrong ideas. A child born to a girl or a woman...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: They rang Tusla in the past number of days and gave the timeline of having been born and the timeline of when they were adopted out. We do not know what kind of an adoption that was because in many of these instances we know the foster parents or whoever they were-----

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I did not interrupt Deputy Sherlock.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I did not interrupt the Deputy when he was talking.

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...