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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will that be in place for next year? Who is looking at my place to see how much stuff I can get? This is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I know, Chairman. These are important questions, however. I do not know how much fertiliser I can get. Mikey Joe Murphy, Danny Healy and all these people are in no man's land-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target and General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: They do not know how much they are going to be allowed or who is going to vet them to decide how much they can get.

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this matter to the floor of the Dáil because it is very important. The Government has to accept that since it closed down Lanesborough and Shannonbridge power stations in the middle of the country, electricity has increased every whole day. As the cost of generating electricity had gone up so much, we were all resigned to the fact that we would have...

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: He will not even give us the right carbon-----

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Of course, the Chair is supporting the Minister to the hilt. You are one of them.

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Your balance is behind the Greens because the Government took them on board.

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I work for those from every nationality, back over the years since I began as a councillor.

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The time has come that we must look at what we are doing because we have enough at the present time.

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this very important topic. I welcome anything that would help tourism in the country and, indeed, in Kerry. All of us are privileged to be elected to this Chamber to represent the people who elected us from whatever part of the country. However, I feel that being a Deputy from Kerry, I have an advantage because I am representing the best county...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The wind does not blow all the time.

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...