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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Testing: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am asking if the witnesses can do anything for Kerry, for Killarney and Tralee. Are we at the end of the line? Will Mr. Walsh admit that 12 months is too long to have to wait to apply for a test?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Testing: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is an awful long time for youngsters who have their lessons done and who have done all that it is required, including the theory test and so on. All Mr. Walsh can tell me at this point is that he hopes the thing will be in order by the middle of next year, the middle of 2024. God almighty, that is like the story, leave horse until you get grass. It is not good enough. If Mr. Walsh...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: That must be looked at and rectified.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Well, it is true. People are getting out altogether and people are reducing in number. Will that have an impact on driving up the price of lamb for the consumer? I will qualify what is happening in that regard. Even part-time farmers who have jobs give a lot of time every week to dosing sheep. So much has to be done to them, and the cost of dosing and vaccinations has increased by 30%....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Sports Broadcasting: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...for genuine supporters. Some are elderly and there maybe others who have problems for other reasons. Many parts of Kerry do not have broadband and people cannot access GAAGO. The witnesses are saying that RTÉ cannot put out all the games but the GAA is responsible for that part of it. It has the season condensed and all the big games are to be played out in four or five weeks. It...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Sports Broadcasting: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: They pay all their taxes and they pay their TV licence fees without question. It is not good enough that they cannot see GAA matches, especially the top ones, at different times during the year.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the chance to talk on this very important Bill. I am totally and absolutely against what is proposed. I do not think it is necessary in the first place. We do not have these kinds of demonstrations, that I know of, on my side of the country, in our county. In a lot of places we have practising GPs whom people go to daily. People cannot get to their GPs. How will these...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are talking about windfall gains in the energy sector and deciding how to divvy out the gains from companies that have made windfall profits. This should not be happening at all because the companies should be charging according to what it costs them to make the electricity and taking only a reasonable profit, yet, as we know, they are making massive profits. The Government is trying to...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too thank the Independent Group and especially Deputy Harkin for being honest and truthful in what she said. What is wrong about this is that the Government is being ambivalent about the number of acres. It is not telling us the truth. There is no talk about compensation, and the Government just wants to ram this through. It is hitting the farmers on three fronts with these proposals:...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses to the committee. One of them said that the State has invested in water modelling but it has not invested in treatment plants around our towns and villages. This cut to the nitrates derogation is going to especially hurt and affect small family dairy farmers. One such farmer was on to me earlier this evening. He is milking 60 cows and his Teagasc adviser told him...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are still on the go, with a very small operation. I am conversant with buses and the problems. I welcome the witnesses and thank them for coming. There are issues here, especially for the private operators. Drivers are the issue that every transport operator in County Kerry is talking about, and I know most of them. It is impossible to get drivers. I can understand where Dublin Bus...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is another issue that affects the younger fellows, which is that drivers may get a licence to drive other types of large vehicles at 19 years of age, but that does not happen with buses. If a fellow wants to be a bus driver, he will be 23 or maybe 24 years of age. The other issue is mechanics. I have a mechanic on to me at the present time who has the work part of his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Please, but it is no good to rob Peter to pay Paul. That was never a good plan, so I am asking Mr. Kent to look at that. We want that route back.

A5 Route Upgrade: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael succumbed to the tail wagging the dog, or the Green Party, on this. We do not see much public transport. I do not know what people in the north west see by way of public transport, but we do not see it in Kerry anyway. Rather, we see big, flashy buses in Dublin, double-deckers or whatever, and one or two people at the most inside them. That is where the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Kerry senior football team is to play Tyrone at 3.30 p.m. on Saturday in the quarter final of the football championship. However, thousands of supporters in Kerry who have paid their licence fee will not be able to watch this match on RTÉ. They will have to pay for GAAGO, if they can master the technology, and watch it on that. It has been pointed out to me that Dee Forbes, the...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Mattie McGrath's office for helping us with this motion. This is Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in action together at the behest of the Green Party. They want us to cull cows, rewet land and reduce production by other means through the nitrates directive. Last year, the Taoiseach at the time, Deputy Micheál Martin, was violent when I asked if the Government was...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this timely motion. We have all known for a long time that the nursing homes are in trouble. I acknowledge the presence of all the people in the Gallery, who include managers and staff from small nursing homes and Mr. Tadhg Daly who is in charge of the representative body. I also welcome Timmy Murphy from Brosna who, with his family, runs a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to raise with the Minister the very serious matter of how Government policy is being fine-tuned to cut farm production by rewetting, cutting dairy cow numbers and the nitrates directive. This will impact directly on farmers’ incomes, reduce vibrancy in every sector of rural communities and impact on food security and increase the cost of food to everyone in our country. As we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister for his reply. The Government is not being truthful to the farmers. It is not telling them what is needed or what is going to happen. Earlier this year, the Government agreed that farmers would have to cut their emissions by 25% and said this would be achievable. The Government should tell us what it is going to do and what farmers have to do because farmers want to...

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Regional Group for this timely motion. Home help is something every public representative is dealing with. On an hourly basis, there is someone ringing about home help. When people get elderly and have little problems, they want to stay in their own homes for as long as possible. We should be doing a lot more to help these people stay in their homes and give them the home help...