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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Projects Funding (13 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be available for a project (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12590/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy (13 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: 290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to his announcement in January 2012 that he was making €100 million available after a detailed plan was carried out for much-needed road improvements at 60 locations deemed to be high accident black spots, the number of these locations that were identified in County Kerry; the number that been repaired and the cost of...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Technical Group for allowing me some of its speaking time on this important matter. What happened in the Chamber last week was a disgrace. Much time was taken up by the Government clapping itself on the back for what it called a job well done. I will highlight a couple of the Government's measures that it did not need to take but which have had detrimental effects on rural...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister of State cannot talk about what jobs the Government and the IDA have created in places like County Kerry.

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: With all due respect, come down to Kerry with me on Friday and I will show the Minister of State people who are desperately seeking jobs-----

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Tell that to the young people who have been forced to emigrate or to their parents and their grandparents. Those young people are in Australia, New York and England. The Government has done nothing to keep them at home.

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: This week's Private Members' motion relates to the ridiculous 25% cut to local authorities of recent years. More than ever before, we need local authorities to employ people to do the ordinary types of work that have been done for years. Is it any wonder that when people travel the roads of Ireland, no drains are being opened and no hedges are being cut? There is a race to the bottom...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Am I speaking?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Chairman is dead right. If Deputy Coffey wants to put the boot in he will get the boot back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: To clarify that point, people are talking about putting in the boot. I will use the sledgehammer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Deputy Coffey will be very glad to know that on the night of 6 December 2010 the then Deputy Jackie Healy-Rae voted with Fine Gael on a motion. Did Deputy Coffey know that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I think it is ten-nil, because I want to clarify-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I have. I hope the Chairman will not let somebody give the wrong impression of an event.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Please allow me to clarify. On the night of 6 December Deputy Healy-Rae voted twice, first against a Fianna Fáil amendment and then with the Fine Gael motion, which was an excellent motion. Deputy Coffey may not know that because of his inexperience.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Deputy Coffey slipped in the mud.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I have. I would like to ask one final time: will An Post engage with the IPU representatives? Will it do everything it can to ensure the postmasters and the excellent service continue for generations to come?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: I asked An Post about sitting down with the IPU to work together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: On a lighter note to Deputy Noel Harrington, on the Kerry side of the border, when we are filling in the forms, we fill the last part first. We confirm that people want the payment to be made through the post office and then fill in the form.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: My advice to people on the Cork side of the border is that they should do the same. I thank the delegates for coming. I must register my disappointment that the CEO is unable to attend. Everyone is busy and people have different places to be, but I cannot think of where is more important for the CEO of this organisation than before the committee. Mr. Daly and Mr. Sheehan are perfectly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Michael Healy-Rae: Yes, but I said I did not want to use it. It is criminal. Two weeks ago the Minister said that if people were not shopping on the high street we would put the service where they were going for fear of losing business. He repeated this yesterday in response to Deputy Michael Moynihan at Question Time and the An Post delegates seem to have the same idea. If we nurture and promote the 1,100...