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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (24 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 553. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a series of matters (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46351/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (24 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 554. To ask the Minister for Health to look into a matter on behalf of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46358/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 556. To ask the Minister for Health if a service will be retained (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46405/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (24 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a certificate will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46243/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (19 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 262. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department's plans to rectify an anomaly in qualifying for a scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45966/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (19 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 346. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45915/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (19 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 438 of 24 January 2023, if he will provide an update; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46041/23]

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I warmly support this amendment on behalf of the Kerry businesses I deal with daily. They are still struggling to understand why, at a time when wholesale energy prices plummeted, they were left holding enormously high energy bills. The one thing those just trying to survive and small businesses, be they garages, hotels, guest houses, shops or hairdressers, cannot get away from is that they...

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: At the outset, we have to say that we absolutely condemn what is going on, which is, in effect, war crimes being committed against the most vulnerable of people. What we have to say tonight is that the murder of innocent people, wherever it happens, in whatever name, and for whatever cause, cannot be allowed. It has to be condemned by all right-thinking people and governments. Take our own...

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: John Hume, of course. All these people came together and they used a biro, their brains and their intelligence. We have to absolutely condemn this and tell these people they have to go down the peaceful road. There will have to be an immediate ceasefire on all fronts. That is the only simple way of putting this. We have to immediately call this out for what it is: war crimes. We have...

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Is the Minister of State going to accept or reject the motion which myself and my colleagues in the Rural Independent Group are bringing before him today on behalf of 71,500 people throughout the country? I am here to talk about the young people, for instance, in County Kerry who are coming to me in their droves at clinics and asking what are we going to do, how are they going to go to...

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----because the Green Party members are leading the Government by the nose down the road to the abyss. I remind the Minister of State again that the Government has lost rural Ireland. It had it at one time but Fine Gael has lost what it had in rural Ireland. The Greens never had it in the first instance but the Government has abandoned it because it is being taken by the nose and is being...

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: The then Government had to realise that it had to give licences to people and it did. I know that a number of weeks ago the Taoiseach answered me in the House and said that the Government was not looking at an amnesty. If the Government is not going to look at an amnesty then it will have to wake up as this is a real problem which is affecting real people. I am sincerely asking it to come...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Engagement: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank our witnesses for being here and for their time. We really appreciate it. The aspect of the budget I would like their opinion on is the increase in the minimum wage. It is of course something we are all concerned about because the ever-increasing cost of living makes it harder for people to balance their household budget and an increase in people's take-home wages is something we...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Engagement: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Yes, but finally on the matter of the rates, I would like to think that I am speaking on behalf of many people the length and breadth of the country. I really think that reviewing the rateable valuation of businesses at a time like this is not good. A person could then argue and ask what a good time for this would be. It is never a good time. However, everybody knows that small businesses...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Engagement: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Yes. I want to very briefly answer that. Take, for example, the case that I cited. If a person was paying €4,000 previously and is now being told they want €12,000 from them-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Engagement: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----but they are going to give them back half of that next year, they will still be losing.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Engagement: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I would be very grateful for that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Engagement: Economic and Social Research Institute (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Cathaoirleach.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Animal Culls (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 121. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the proposed cull of rabbits (details supplied) will take place; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45504/23]