Results 1,921-1,940 of 23,515 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (5 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 274. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an increase in the basic rate of social welfare for the disability sector will be considered (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43256/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (5 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 339. To ask the Minister for Health to ensure that people (details supplied) receive dental care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43258/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43304/23]

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: The main thing to say is that we must make every effort we can make to protect the lives of people who are vulnerable or endangered by this inhuman practice. We must put our shoulders to the wheel and try to stop, prohibit and hinder this awful practice in every way possible. All of us were horrified in recent years when we saw the images of articulated trucks having their doors opened,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: We need to get to the bottom of this and we need to get young people on the road with their drivers' licences.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: We have a problem. There are 71,554 people waiting for a driving test nationally and 4,853 are waiting in County Kerry alone. The average waiting time for a test is 30 weeks. Killarney has the second highest in the State at 43 weeks and it is 32 weeks in Tralee. I am absolutely inundated with emails and phone calls from students, young people starting out, their parents, grandparents,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: No, I was not. I have been around a while but not that long.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: On a serious note, it is not just me. Each Member of the House has been inundated with this. I am pleading with the Taoiseach. A Cheann Comhairle, you know it yourself. You have it in your constituency.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Not science, the ground is wet.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: It will dry overnight.

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: It was so disappointing to see the Minister for Justice turn her back on the rank and file gardaí up and down the length and breadth of this country and to give a blank cheque of support to Commissioner Drew Harris. He has failed in securing the support of even a minority of gardaí and he has let them down. However, the Minister and the Government gave him a blank cheque. If only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister, the Minister of State and their officials for being here. On behalf of County Kerry farmers, I thank the Minister for the extension of the slurry spreading period but it is not adequate. People on marginal ground, not just in Kerry but throughout the country, will need until 1 November. A bit of fine weather is coming but the type of ground we are representing needs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Is the Minister clarifying that the answer is "Yes"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: That is fine. Once we are saying "Yes", that is all. Page 22 of the report on ash states that there are "weaknesses in culture, leadership, communications and capability" in the Department. Does the Minister of State believe that the new programme will be a success if this is the independent view of her Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: That is good. Grant Thornton carried out a process review of the Department's processes more than a year ago. When will that report be published? Has it been shelved? Will it ever see the light of day?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Is the Minister of State giving a guarantee that it will be published and we will all get to see it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: What is the hectares target for planting licences to be issued from the 210 applications that have opted into the new programme? If there are zero targets, how can we deliver a programme? Is this just business as usual?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Out of the 210 applications that have opted into the new programme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: The sector has been left in limbo as regards submitting new applications due to the lack of guidance on the new layers. Industry stakeholders advised that mixed messages in respect of guidance are coming from departmental officials. The head of the environmental section in the Department informs them that sufficient information is out there and the Department will not be providing any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Forestry Programme and Strategy: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Were either the Minister or Minister of State aware there were issues with the appropriate assessment, AA, process for sites approved pre-Christmas 2022 in the event of an appeal? Why did appeals continue to be heard by the forestry appeals committee, FAC, when it was known that these licences would not be upheld? Was that not very misleading?