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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 May 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that self-employed persons are not entitled to claim illness benefit if they are unable to work due to illness; the measures that are being taken to bring about changes to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24217/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 May 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if self-employed persons are entitled to apply for the jobseeker's benefit in cases in which their company goes out of business and they are looking for a job; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24230/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish to raise with the Taoiseach a very important matter. Many elderly people are encountering severe problems in attaining home help. They are waiting for months. We cannot understand this because on the other side I know that people have qualified, are Garda vetted and are ready to go. The answer I am getting back day after day is that they do not have the staff and that they are...

Living Wage Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 May 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this very important matter today. It is gas to see Labour Party Members try to make amends after the harm they did when they were in government and were in power. I know better than anyone else that people's wages do not go far enough now because of the cost of everything, including the cost of travelling to work. In Kerry, people need to travel...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to ask a few questions. With regard to the energy credit for electricity, the cost of electricity has gone up way over 100% in the last 12 months or the last year and a half. People are asking me if there is any control or how the companies are allowed to do this while at the same time we read that they made €600 million or €700 million in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: There is another part. The closing down of Bord na Móna in the midlands means that we are using more gas to generate electricity. Is that a large factor in explaining why electricity prices are going up, day by day? It does not seem to be stopping. Electricity prices went up by 28% or 29% last week or the week before that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the 20% reduction in public transport fares for the people who can benefit from it. How much of the carbon tax that we collect is being directed to that measure? I come from a rural county where people have to travel to work by car because they do not have access to public transport. They are being thrown to the wolves with the costs. The carbon tax increased again in recent...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: How much of it is being directed towards the 20% reduction in public transport fares?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have a question on the diesel rebate scheme. It is my understanding that one has to have a haulage licence to qualify for the diesel rebate scheme. As there are many lorry drivers who do not have a haulage licence, they do not qualify for the diesel rebate. Has consideration been given to expanding the rebate scheme in light of the savage running costs faced by many lorry drivers? Could...

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I must declare an interest if my brother has an interest because of the fact we are brothers, even though I only have my own bit. The cost of rent is exorbitant in Kerry as well, in places like Killarney, Tralee and Dingle. It is also hard to find places to rent because there is no availability. While I, like everyone else, welcome the Ukrainian people here, we need to be inventive about...

Eurojust: Motion (4 May 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am also glad to get the opportunity to talk about this very serious matter. It is sure we must do everything we can. It is very clear that what is going on are war crimes affecting civilians. The way they are being treated, bombarded, hurt, maimed and killed, it is clear war crimes are being committed at present. We must monitor and ensure that if it can happen, it should happen that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí agus ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy and Legislation (28 Apr 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will take the Minister, Leo and Micheál out of the bog for a while. It is clear they have bogged down to the bane. Fertiliser costs are savage and are putting farmers under savage pressure. However, if proper levels of lime were applied to the land, it would increase fertility, make it more productive, and reduce the amount of fertiliser needed to be spread on the land. Will the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Leave the people who cut their turf alone.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I would say the Minister must get glasses because that is not what he said.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister would try to sell sand in the Sahara.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (28 Apr 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: Millions have been spent educating these teachers and we cannot afford to lose them to countries like the United Arab Emirates and other places. The discrimination is having a deeply unsettling effect on the teaching profession. The Minister said an agreement has been reached or whatever. When will these teachers actually receive the pay they are being denied? That is the question. When...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (28 Apr 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address the unfair anomaly that persists for some public sector workers, including teachers as a result of the two-tier pay system. [21626/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (28 Apr 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: I respectfully ask the Minister if he will address the unfair anomaly that persists for some public sector workers, including and especially teachers, as a result of the two-tier pay system that was introduced more than a decade ago, along with the other financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, cuts.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (28 Apr 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: It has been made very clear to me that the discrimination within the two-tier pay system in schools is having a deeply unsettling effect on the teaching profession. Lower pay is driving a significant number of people away from the profession. The two-tier pay system has now been in place since 2011, more than a decade, and must be removed. Teachers who entered the system since 2011 are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Apr 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 188. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider making the Covid pandemic bonus available to all other sectors that were dealing directly with the public during lockdown. [21643/22]