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Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin. I was too late to sign the motion, but my heart is in it. This has been a terrible time in the history of our State. It is 11 months since the commission of investigation delivered its final report. The payment scheme was finally published on Tuesday, 16 November. The payment involves an €800 million redress payment for 34,000 survivors of mother and baby...

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: What the Minister is doing in Ireland will not even move the global greenhouse gas scale, yet our people are being taxed out of existence and targeted financially because of a Green nirvana agenda that is more fanatical than realistic. Our small island country produces just 0.13% of all the worldwide emissions. That is all. Yet our farmers, who produce the highest quality food from fresh...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I too wish the Ceann Comhairle, Deputy Ó Fearghaíl, all the best. I am sure he will be back in action very shortly. Up to 9 September 2021, planning permissions were for five years. Prior to that date, it was possible for young people and other people wishing to build a one-off house to apply for an extension of a further five years. Under Housing for All, brought forward by the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services (23 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a subsidy will be put in place to encourage airlines to operate additional flights (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57193/21]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Chairman for giving me the opportunity to say a few words about what is happening today regarding this and other amendments. All the committee's amendments are being ruled out of order and are not being entertained. That is very sad and very bad. It is on record that it was the UK that first taught coastal communities how to fish back in the 1600s. Since then, Irish...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will finish. I have been listening to the debate in my office all day and trying to do other things as well. It has to be pointed out that Irish fishermen are only fishing 15% of Irish waters. We all remember the great presentation they made when they came up the River Liffey. They did that in the most ordinary and thoughtful way and gave their presentation outside the convention...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (18 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I again thank the Minister. We have a crisis in Kerry. I hear what the Minister is saying about testing but people can die from other causes as well as the coronavirus, and elderly people are vulnerable. When I requested home help for a 91-year-old woman, they told me she may not get it for six months. People cannot get home help at weekends or on bank holidays. I am coming to the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (18 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 76. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if qualified members of the Defence Forces are available to help medical teams in hospitals, to operate additional ambulances or to help with care of the elderly in their homes given the additional demands that are placed on staff due to Covid-19 and other illnesses. [56753/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (18 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: Is there any availability of qualified members of the Defence Forces to help medical teams in hospitals, to operate additional ambulances or to help with the care of the elderly in their homes in light of the extra demands that are placed on staff due to Covid and other illnesses? Hospitals in Tralee, Killarney, Kenmare, Bantry, Cahersiveen and Listowel are under immense pressure.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (18 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: It all depends on what constitutes an emergency. The consultant body of University Hospital Kerry has serious concerns and is worried about the safety of patients in hospital. It says it has lost confidence in the ability of the HSE locally, regionally and nationally to provide safe, timely and effective care of patients. Our hospital is in crisis since the second week in September, with...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (18 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 217. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will consider using qualified members of the Defence Forces to address the urgency and shortage of staff in hospitals. [56754/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 296. To ask the Minister for Health when staff will be put in place in the resilience social care residential centre (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56603/21]

Air Accident Investigation Unit Final Report into R116 air accident: Statements (17 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to use my time to offer my deepest sympathies to the families and friends of Captain Dara Fitzpatrick, Captain Mark Duffy, winchman Ciarán Smyth and winch operator Paul Ormsby. The accident and loss of the crew were a terrible tragedy. We must surely learn lessons from this terrible tragedy and insist that something like it never happens again.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, congratulate the Minister on the birth of her child and wish her well for the future. I am glad the deadline of 30 November has been set aside. I called for this when I was first elected to the House in early 2016. I also called for it numerous times this year here in the Chamber. I told the Taoiseach that things were not working as they should as a result of Covid and the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Nov 2021)

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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----Glenflesk, Gneeveguilla, Scartaglen, Kenmare and Cahersiveen. They do very valuable work and I ask the Taoiseach to lift the cap.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: The rural social scheme is a very important part of rural communities all along the western seaboard and indeed, in many counties, including Cavan and Monaghan. To get on the scheme, applicants have to qualify for farm assist payments. Those on the scheme get a top-up payment for doing very valuable work in their communities. The payment is perhaps €20 or something very small. It...

National Standards Authority of Ireland (Carbon Footprint Labelling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I call on the Government to vote against the Bill, never mind kicking the can down the road. The Government must show that it has guts and stand up for the people.

National Standards Authority of Ireland (Carbon Footprint Labelling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is what I am asking it to do. It is kicking the can down the road just to please the Green Party.

National Standards Authority of Ireland (Carbon Footprint Labelling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is what this is about. The Minister of State knows that I am right about this. The Government must vote against the Bill once and for all.