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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 783. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider his decision for to exclude section 39 disability service providers (details supplied) from the once-off bonus payment for front-line healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6635/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 784. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the decision to exclude practice nurses (details supplied) from the once-off bonus payment for frontline healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6638/22]

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: What we are asking for is very minimal. These are hard-working people who pay their taxes. They are contributing to us in this Chamber and to services, whether those are carers, pensions or whatever. They are contributing like everyone else and they do not have surety of work. They are dependent on the weather as to whether they can go out to fish. We are asking the Minister to double...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: When I heard Deputy Mac Lochlainn reading out what the Minister said when he was over here in opposition, I could not understand how the Minister is over there in government at all, contesting one little line that we want to change. The purpose of us asking to use the words "beyond a reasonable doubt" is to provide fairness and equality for fishermen and women under the law and the...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, add my voice to the call that the wording used should be "beyond reasonable doubt" rather than "on the balance of probability". This is a new departure from fair play. Any criminal brought before any court enjoys the presumption of innocence until found guilty. What is suggested in the wording is wrong. It may seem small to argue about the wording but it is important to people...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is a lot of fanfare and much hay is being made about this proposal to allow a hectare of native woodland to be planted without needing to get planning permission. Farmers have been planting broadleaf trees in corners of fields and around houses for shelter and continue to do so. Is the Minister telling me that what they were doing was wrong? He is suggesting that they do not have to...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak. I will vote for anything that will help the forestry sector, whether it is felling licences, planning licences or the building of roads. No farmer has any problem with planting small plantations of broadleaf. Farmers did not have to be told by the Green Party, or by anyone else for that matter, to do so. That has been happening over the years in...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: One issue is tied into the other. I have almost said what I want to say. I will again say to the Minister that most confidence in the forestry sector has gone and what is left is evaporating as the days go by. We have gone from 2018 to 2019, 2020 and 2021 and here we are in 2022. We are talking about nearly five years and we are still in trouble with it.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to talk about our youngsters growing up and their future. We are educating children and pupils to the highest standard in our universities. I also welcome the Munster Technological University in Tralee, which is a big advantage. We needed for so long and we are glad to have it since the beginning of last year. It is important for the vibrancy of Tralee...

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I sympathise with all the families of those who died alone in hospitals and nursing homes. That was the saddest part of the whole thing. It should not have happened and I ask that it not be allowed to happen again, especially as visitors are being severely impeded from entering hospitals. Some people became seriously sick, such as Jim Tangney from the Black Valley, a naturally fit man, and...

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this very worthy motion. I will be supporting it. I support everything that has been said so far. The family of Padraig and Elaine Clifford have paid a very high price, leaving four children behind them. This young couple died within four months of each other. I wish to highlight the plight of Karin O'Shea, a 27-year-old girl from Kilgarvan who...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (1 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Can most operators make submissions?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (1 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Minister to outline the progress made by the steering group in reviewing the school transport scheme. What changes have been made to the scheme to date? Has the group examined the possibility of issuing school bus tickets earlier than at present such as in July, for example? This would allow for concessionary tickets to be processed before the school term resumes in order that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (1 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister very much for her reply. There are a number of issues I have to raise with her. On the medical card, it only covers pupils on the bus to the nearest school. If that school is full they must pay to go to their next-nearest school. Many bus operators have asked me to raise the rule that prevents drivers from working beyond the age of 70 years. These 70-year-olds go on to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (1 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I also want to mention the 20-year rule that prevents buses when they reach 20 years of age-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (1 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister. Again, I ask her to change that 70 years of age rule because bus operators are having severe difficulty in getting qualified drivers. We are throwing good drivers onto the rubbish heap. On the 20-year rule for buses, if a bus passes the commercial vehicle roadworthiness test, CRVT - and those tests are rigorous - then it should be allowed. This is happening in...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak and I thank Sinn Féin. I will start by apologising to the parents and those lovely boys and girls who were harmed and not treated properly by the HSE. Those youngsters and parents did nothing wrong. I have to reiterate that they did absolutely nothing wrong. They sought help and did not get it. Some 1,332 children were not dealt with...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach: Statements (1 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get this opportunity. For those who remember the Troubles and all the people who were killed, hurt and maimed, the Good Friday Agreement is a milestone that will be appreciated forever. We cannot forget the people who were involved, including Presidents Kennedy and Clinton as well as Ted Kennedy and others from America. I thank former taoisigh, Charles Haughey and Albert...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made regarding an option for leaving certificate students to sit the exams or have calculated grades as has been done in the past two years. [5173/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (27 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Why should it be treated as a new application because it has been 11 years?