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Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Yes, that is a very important clarification. One troubling allegation is that the non-medical springs, which were made from low-grade steel rather than the required titanium alloy, were used in surgeries involving at least three young patients. These springs were not intended for medical use. Am I correct in saying that? This raises questions about their origin and intended purpose. This...

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Yes. I do not like using this analogy, but in the past hour I have spoken to a person who has been involved in the automobile industry. That person said to me that when a motor car is being made, there are awfully strict criteria about the materials that are used. How could this actually happen, when these are going into people’s bodies? It just does not make sense. I am not...

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I put to the Minister of State the enormity of what has happened to families with these mortgages rate increases. Ordinary mortgages have gone up by €400, €500, €600 and €700 per month. People have to try to come up with that extra money. They are finding it impossible. That has been well spoken about here already. There is one thing I want to say about our...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: What about An Garda Síochána? The Minister forgot about that.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: First of all, I thank and acknowledge Sinn Féin for raising this very important matter here this evening. It was ironic to be above inside in the office listening to everybody's contribution. Some of the loudest voices I heard inside in the Chamber this evening all have one thing in common. They are all serial objectors in their own constituencies. They have not objected to ten or to...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is good there is someone who will stand up for those people. Most importantly, we are standing up for unborn persons - the babies who would grow up to be wonderful people. One of the most hurtful days I ever had in this Chamber, and one of the lowest times I have ever had, was the day we tried to pass an amendment on pain relief. We were beaten in everything else and we knew we were not...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I do not believe that men or women in suits or dresses should have the right to interfere in that process. Of course, there are certain cases-----

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----where people have health issues, but those 8,156 abortions were not because of health issues. They could not have been. The statistics do not back up that. The Minister was wrong then and he is wrong again now. I am sorry to say that. He knows I am saying it in a respectful way. I do not mean any personal harm to him or anyone else on the other side of the debate, but I just-----

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his indulgence.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Stop the clock, please.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Can we go back with the clock?

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. This is a most important debate. I would like in my short contribution to think of no one else except the unborn people. I am not just calling them babies; they were people. They would have been people if they had been born and not aborted. There were 8,156 abortion procedures in 2022. Only 22 of those were performed due to the risk to life or health....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Jul 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Sinéad Kelleher, who is a reporter with The Kerryman, has run a front-page story today with the headline "Nightmare Ordeal". Brendan "Cap" Murphy of Portmagee suffered a horrific injury in an accident in his late mother's house on 1 June, when he fell from the attic and completely ripped his leg open to the bone from the knee down. He was left hanging upside-down for over 20 minutes...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is inherently wrong to rewet land that people suffered for and worked hard to dry in the first place. People are saying it is inevitable and it has to be done. It does not have to be done. There is enough sequestering of carbon emissions by other land holdings like our forestry and hedgerows. We are doing more than our part. The version of the EU nature restoration law approved by the...

A5 Route Upgrade: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: All politics is local.

A5 Route Upgrade: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Absolutely.

A5 Route Upgrade: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this very important motion. The A5 route linking North and South is a critical piece of infrastructure and a major route for people living and working in the Border counties and across the north west. The A5 road from Aughnacloy to Derry is in urgent need of upgrades to improve safety and reduce fatalities. This road development project is vital to the...

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: We need a public service broadcaster. When all is said and done, whatever is going to become of it, we absolutely need that. What I want to remember today, though, is the absolute obscenity of this fact. I am not going to name anyone, a Cheann Comhairle, because that is not the right thing to do. When people are not here to defend themselves, they should not be named. I will give an...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Nothing about the price of concrete.

Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Report 2022: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Especially in light of the events of the past 24 hours, I have to note the total demonisation of rural dwellers. I say “rural dwellers” because predominantly people with a septic tank are rural dwellers. We are told the majority of septic tanks, or perhaps one in three, are not functioning properly. The main polluter in any county is the local authority of that county. This...