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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will say one thing. If the Government cannot or will not help them, please tell them right away and do not keep them hanging on because they are losing massive sums of money daily.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Taoiseach and the Minister.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: We must retain our neutrality because it has served us well since de Valera stood up to Churchill in the Second World War. We want no part of military alliances, but we should not abandon our own Army. It was ridiculous to have them on income supplement to feed their families. We must keep a proper peacekeeping force. We must modernise the Army, Naval Service and Air Force. We need a...

Services for Children with Disabilities: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak to this matter again because it is so important. The Government, the Department of Health and the HSE are really letting down children with disabilities. It is a tough cross to bear for these parents and the children when they do not come into this world 100% and are lacking what they need. An assessment of needs takes forever and they do not get...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the Bill. Many parents of babies born through surrogacy have contacted me about anomalies that occurred when they brought their babies home. Many couples are unfortunate, in that they cannot have children of their own. For one reason or another, they have been deprived of this. They then do the next best thing, which is surrogacy. Some years ago, a lady I was very close with...

Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak. I thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and the Social Democrats for bringing this Bill before us. I am amazed that there was no way to deal with this offence before. Remarkably, the Minister for Justice has confirmed that no specific criminal offence for this practice currently exists in Ireland. It is amazing that, as matters stand, there is no way to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is it something the Tánaiste cannot realise right here?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (10 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter regarding the retirement age for school bus drivers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13662/22]

Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is a fact that what the Minister has done today will make no material difference. He has to realise that millions of euro worth of work is being held up. Hundreds of jobs are being put on hold by the hour because people will not enter into contracts due to what is happening. The Government has to impose a cap and ensure certainty in the cost of fuel. Something is going on with the...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I can see the time every bit as good as you.

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am hurting you because you are Fine Gael. I am not one bit sorry in the world.

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is Fine Gael that joined the Greens and Fianna Fáil joined the Greens. Shut your mouth while I am talking.

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Shut your mouth while I am talking and do not interrupt me.

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

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Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

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Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: You are talking over me.

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government is making no material difference with what it is suggesting that we vote for later today. It is very unfair. The Government is being dishonest with the people. It could do more. It is saying that it cannot do more and that it is being stopped by Europe. I ask the Government to think of the people trying to go to work, morning after morning, and what it is costing them. I...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: What is happening in this Chamber is definitely an insult. It is an insult to the people of Ireland, the working people. It is an insult to the farmers who put so much into producing good food and who have abided by every rule and regulation. What the Government has announced here today will make no material difference. I have no personal gripe with the Minister of State whatsoever but...