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

Danny Healy-Rae: It would have been just a renewal if it had been nine years.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: 5. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a series of issues (details supplied) in relation to delays in the issuing of first-time and renewal passports; and if the parent consent form will be simplified. [4164/22]

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask whether the attention of the Minister has been drawn to a series of issues in regard to the delays in the issuing of first-time and renewal passports, and if the parent consent form needs to be simplified. One of the biggest issues is that over 40% of children's passports are sent back as not being complete applications.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I hear the reply but there are huge issues with people getting their passports on time, especially children's passports, both first-time applications and renewals. The current process still needs to be reviewed as I have been advised recently by the Minister's office that more than 40% of all children's passport applications are deemed to be incomplete. The problem is that the extra or...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I doubt that.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister is right. As we are talking here today, there is a backlog of 113,000 applications. Can the Minister imagine that? Something needs to be changed in regard to the parent consent form because that is where most of the difficulty is, and the application is being sent back due to a lack of information or because there is something wrong with that parent consent form. That needs...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (27 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 212. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if additional staff will be recruited to the passport office given the lengthy delays incurred processing passport applications (details supplied). [4165/22]

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get an opportunity speak about a few important matters. I have also been contacted by many people, including friends from Donegal and Mayo, who asked me to ensure the Government gives 100% compensation to these people whose houses are falling down around them. Many of these people do not know where they will be next Christmas night or if they will be with their families. This...

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I apologise again to the children and their parents as a Deputy from Kerry. They are my friends and neighbours, and it is very sad what has been done to them. I tell the Minister of State that this can never happen again.

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is not a shadow of doubt that suicide is linked to insufficient mental health care services. I ask the Minister of State to acknowledge that point.

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: We have all heard about the damning report on CAMHS that was published this morning. It is public now. The parents and children involved have known about this for much longer. As an elected Member from Kerry, I apologise to the families, the parents and the children. They did nothing wrong and everything right. They went to seek help and they did not get proper help. They were let down...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I plead with the Taoiseach to open up visits for family members to patients in hospitals. They need family members for personal care and to advocate for them. Patients will only confide in their own. Old people are lonely and this is the one thing that happened with the virus. Many of these people died alone. They miss their family members after working hard all their lives. Everything...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply but I am not satisfied that we are helping farmers with their current plight. I am asking him to ensure that the anti-dumping levy is withdrawn. That would account for at least €40 or €50 per tonne. I am asking the Government to subsidise the cost of the fertiliser. If we look far enough ahead, we will see that the current situation will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Will the Government subsidise fertiliser?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to raise again with the Taoiseach the savage increase in the cost of fertiliser. I did this before back on 3 November last. I want to know what the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Taoiseach and the Government have done to get the price of fertiliser down to an acceptable or reasonable price for small suckler farmers in south Kerry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will not need ten minutes. I thank the Chair. I welcome Mr. Moroney and his colleagues representing the farm and forestry contractors. I can identify with everything that has been said here. I have been a contractor and have been a farmer, and I am still, and have been all my life. I started out with a Ferguson 135, cutting hay with a finger bar mower all around the parish, then going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: There were not, but I wanted to get my point in. I have to go to another meeting now. I thank the witnesses.

Leaving Certificate: Motion (25 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: On behalf of the many students in Kerry who have my phone reddened, I ask that they be given a choice this year. In 2020, I asked the then Minister, Deputy Joe McHugh, the very same question and he responded. I believe I was the first to ask that students be given a choice. The Covid-19 virus is not yet finished and teachers and pupils could miss more time. This set of students missed...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 342. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); if the application will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3147/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 341. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3146/22]