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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: The members of fire crew KY 18 based at Kenmare fire station are picketing on days on which they are not on call. It is not for me to advise the Government, but must inform it that this matter is going to be sorted one way or another. Why in the name of God would the Government want to discredit itself by not being proactive and saying that retained firefighters deserve to be sorted out?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Today we will engage with officials from the Department of Justice and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, IHREC. The purpose of today's meeting is to look at the current legal and constitutional context of assisted dying in Ireland. I am pleased to welcome officials from the Department of Justice and the IHREC here today and thank them most sincerely for being here. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: My apologies; I should have said that IHREC can reply at any time. That was neglectful of me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: That is fine. At this stage, we will take any comments the witnesses may wish to make concerning an overview of the situation or go back to the members for further questions for up to five minutes respectively, or as little or much of that time as each person wishes to avail of. First on that will be Deputy Gino Kenny.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: At this stage, I have to move on to any other business. I propose to publish the opening statements.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I propose to publish the opening statements to the Oireachtas website. Is that agreed? Agreed. It is proposed to elect a Leas-Chathaoirleach at the next public meeting on 20 June. It is important to have continuity for the meetings if I am indisposed for some reason or another. Is that agreed? Agreed. Today has been a very important occasion for all members of the committee. We...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 230. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Government has looked at alternative fuels which are better for the environment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28542/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 386. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether it is time that the Government takes a serious look at the €330,000 exemption for children who have an inheritance left to them, given the ever-increasing values in property, and so on (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28070/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 822. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will look at creating a childhood and adolescent and young-adult cancer-care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27910/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 823. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will look at removing the means testing for cancer patients when they apply for an exceptional needs payment/SWA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27912/23]

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Recently, we had a meeting in County Kerry regarding the River Cashen. I want to explain why the meeting was held. It was held because of the proposed cessation of the national arterial drainage programme, the programme that engages the OPW to maintain waterways and sluice gates and prevent land from flooding. If we do what we want to do with the River Cashen, thousands of acres of fertile...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I appreciate that the Minister is talking sense and calling them empty homes, not voids. It is nice to hear a person telling the truth as it is. I stand over the statement, because it is a fact, that if a house received funding since 2014, it cannot receive funding a second time. I would like the Minister to examine the empty house scheme and ask that local authorities are adequately...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I want to raise the voids scheme, but I would rather have the name changed to what it is, namely, the empty houses scheme. When we talk about voids in local authorities, I would rather call them what they are: empty local authority houses. I want to highlight the fact that a local authority only gets €11,000 to do up a house, no matter what condition it is in, if it is vacant....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Parking Provision (31 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 198. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will look at abolishing the car parking rates for cancer patients in all HSE and local authority car parks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26686/23]

Court Proceedings (Delays) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this very important matter. In 2010 the European Court of Human Rights held in McFarlane v. Ireland that the State was in breach of Articles 6 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights as there was no effective remedy for a breach of the constitutional right to reasonable expedition. Article 6 guarantees that hearings must be provided...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: During next year's local, European and general elections, the public will have the same interest in Fine Gael as they would have in contracting the bubonic plague. Why? That is because they will not trust it. When I and my colleagues in the Rural Independent Group continually raise the fact that it is looking at reducing the national herd, the Taoiseach denies that. I want to thank Ciaran...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (30 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 662. To ask the Minister for Health the stage the look-back review into North Kerry CAMHS is at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25674/23]

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: As a follow on to my earlier contribution, I recall one very late and cold night protesting with others at the gates of the factory in Bandon, and also above in Limerick. Having listened to those people and taken away conversations we had that night with the producers of beef, I have a fair question to ask the Minister. There is no harm in asking this question. He is bound to have an...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (24 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: First, I would like to support Deputy Kerrane on that. We touched on the issue of the regulator during last week’s debate. Having a regulator without teeth is the same as not having a regulator at all. We have seen the operations of some large conglomerates, particularly over the past 20 years. I highlighted in the past in this Chamber what happened to the farmers and the people...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin. The only criticism I have of it is that Deputy Cullinane should have said at the start of this debate that he was pulling the motion. He should have collapsed the Dáil this evening over it and had the screens go blank. I will tell the House why. He should have done so because it is the height of disrespect to him, his party and the work its staff put into...