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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 567. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding refugees being moved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51666/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that persons on benefit payments are still not eligible for the fuel allowance. [51021/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the carer's allowance payment would be exempt from a means test if the medical needs of the patient and the level of care being provided are assessed that it should be sufficient. [51022/22]

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get an opportunity to talk on this topic as many employers across the county of Kerry have been asking me to help them to get people to work for them. Work permits come up all the time. Last week, a plaster was on to me looking to get a plasterer in from another country. He has been held up all year. He went through all the hoops. He had to advertise in the local paper and...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Right.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: What about Shannon LNG?

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I thank the Labour Party for tabling this very important motion this morning. As has been noted by many speakers, the section 39 workers in the community and voluntary sector are not being properly paid and they have not received a pay increase for 14 years. We have only to look at this year and the way the cost of living has gone up - it has practically doubled in the past 12 months...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is scandalous. When we ask questions in the Dáil as to why this or that is happening, we are told there is a war going on and exceptional things are arising from that. However, during the Second World War, turf kept this country going. It was the boglands of the country that kept it going. This is an exceptional time. I am appealing to the Government, to the Minister and to his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to come to the meeting. I listened to our guests' presentations in my office. I heard most of what they said. Like all the other members of the committee, I have heard it many times now. What is going on is a scandal. We are talking about 17,000 jobs in total. There is also a spin-off to the local economy, in the shops and whatever else, including the...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Tully for tabling this very important motion. Since I was elected in 2016, I believe that one cohort of people has been totally and utterly neglected; namely, elderly parents who are now in their 70s and 80s. They would be doing good enough to look after themselves without needing home helps and carers to do so, but they are also trying to mind older children who cannot mind...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is very important. The mother is against this move because she has not got the facility or wherewithal to travel that distance or bring her daughter home. That is what is happening now to a family in south Kerry. This is the deal they are being offered by the HSE. I will give the Minister the details.

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the few payments that people will get as small as they are. They will help some people but many will be left behind. I, along with many others, could understand the cost of electricity going up, if the cost of producing it was going up. We now find, however, that the electricity companies are doubling, tripling and quadrupling their profits. Where is the regulator? Where is the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have heard today that demand for electricity will outstrip supply. Why would it not do so, given that the Government gave in to the Green Party when it closed two Bord na Móna power stations in the middle of the country? Surely the Government will not cave in to the proposal to decommission the Kinsale gas terminal, where we could store gas during the summer months and have it at...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: They were not supposed to close for seven months.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: What about Kinsale? The Tánaiste never answered that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Tánaiste but, as he said, people are shocked and terrified, and rightly so. The local authority has said it will not benefit from the revaluation but for the valuation has not come down for any of the people I have met on the street and around Kerry. I cannot understand that. I know of one person for whom it came down by €100 but it is more than doubling in many...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Plenty more places will close down.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The lunatics are running the asylum.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Valuation Office is conducting a revaluation of all commercial and industrial properties in County Kerry as part of the programme to revalue all such properties in the State. In the last week, many people in the county have been shocked by the proposed valuation figures they have received. Traders and operators from all walks of life in all parts of the county are terrified at the...

Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about this very important matter. We all welcome anything that would help to reduce the cost of insurance and regulate the amount of claims and awards that are made. Some sizeable amounts have been given to people who were blackguarding the system, taking advantage and making false claims because we all know it has been increasing the cost of...