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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Island Communities (22 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State and the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, for a positive response and outlining how they feel about it. We are asking for a ferry and that the structure be repaired sooner. The waters are treacherous, especially when the tide comes in. If ordinary people use boats, lives could be lost. When the tide comes in, it swings to the left, and when it is going out, it...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Island Communities (22 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and the Minister of State.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Island Communities (22 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I cannot understand why the cable car has to be closed for so long because in 1967 it was built in one month for £14,000. It will take eight months to repair it. We have cranes and helicopters in today's world, which were not available in 1967. Why will it take so long? On average, 200 tourists use the cable car every day. There are 50 cows and 600 sheep on the best of land. There...

Carbon Tax: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk against the carbon tax. I am glad that Sinn Féin has at last seen the light, having voted for the carbon tax already. I am glad it has now seen the light and is against the carbon tax because it affects every man, woman and child in rural Ireland, including ordinary workers, people with cars going to work, commercial transport and lorries that...

Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (22 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am opposed to citizens' assemblies. We are elected into this Chamber by the people. I understand these assemblies will be appointed, as they have been before, by Government or parties in government. What credentials do they have to have? We know from the last assembly that at least nine of them did not meet the criteria to be on that so-called assembly. The local authorities and county...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government is robbing Peter to Paul.

Mobility and Transport Supports for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (16 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Regional Group for giving us the opportunity to talk about disabled people in order that we can all highlight ways in which we need to help them. There is a scheme in place, the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme, that provides relief from VRT and VAT for disabled people and disabled people's next of kin or drivers in order that they can take passengers in their...

Mobility and Transport Supports for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (16 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Deputy Michael Collins spoke about blind people and other categories of people who were not qualifying. Dr. McDonagh and the rest of them resigned because they could not keep going with the conditions and regulations-----

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (16 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8646/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (16 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to ongoing issues with the online passport tracker (details supplied) which is causing frustration for applicants who are advised to track their application on-line but the system is not updating all applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8649/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank all the witnesses for coming here. It has been a very interesting session. It is very interesting to hear all the angles and takes on the matter. TB testing has been going on since I was a young fellow anyway. That was quite a while ago. We did succeed in the warble fly eradication and with brucellosis. Other countries have practically got rid of TB and what is happening here is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Farm Costs (15 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Sleepy wrote a letter.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Farm Costs (15 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Government is doing nothing. The Minister wrote a letter.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Farm Costs (15 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: They wrote a letter.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Farm Costs (15 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister wrote a letter.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Farm Costs (15 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is very clear that they have done nothing and they will not do anything.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Farm Costs (15 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raised this issue back in November and it is now the middle of February, which is when farmers need to spread their fertiliser. To take one product alone, urea was €330 a tonne this time last year. Now it is €930 a tonne. That is the gospel truth. Farmers cannot work without getting some bit of a profit. At this rate they will not survive. They will have to pass their...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Farm Costs (15 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Ah, Minister-----

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak. I thank Sinn Féin for facilitating this very important debate. I agree with the motion, but I have a different angle I wish to raise. We are talking about tackling the cost of living, which has gone up exorbitantly because of the cost of fuel - diesel, petrol and home heating oil. We know that this has gone up worldwide, but the tax take is...

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister should give up codding people like that and driving them mad. They are on the phone ringing to see what is wrong. Just because they got €500 or €600 seven, eight or ten years ago, they will get nothing now.