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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: What the Minister has just said does not address the issue I have raised with regard to people on benefit payments. One example I did not get to is that of a person who has been in receipt of jobseeker's allowance for less than 15 months. Such a person will not qualify. That stops such people taking up part-time jobs in the summer. That is very unfair. I cannot understand how the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (7 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding an NCT test centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48829/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 302. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review the current payscale for early year and childcare workers and ensure that they are paid a professional salary in line with the responsibility they hold and the level of education required for this position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48902/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (7 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 361. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the required funding is made available to safeguard the necessary services, ensure lifelong supports for persons with intellectual and physical disabilities and assist ageing parents and carers who are struggling to manage. [48967/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 400. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the reopening of a day-care centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48830/21]

The National Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027 and Supporting Community Safety: Statements (6 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy James Browne, for giving us this opportunity to discuss the things we need to do to help youngsters. In 1956, my late father started operating a school bus service to Kilgarvan National School. Since he gave it up, I have been doing it. It has given me great pride to see them starting out so small getting onto the bus or, as it was then, the school...

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this very serious problem. Indeed, it is a problem for the people of Kerry because, as we all know, their journeys to work are longer. Much of Kerry is farming community. The cost of diesel for tractors has more than doubled and the cost of heating oil has more doubled. I am concerned that elderly people could be cold in their homes this...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (6 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 10. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a bus driver test application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48566/21]

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for giving us an opportunity to talk about childcare services. Many childcare workers have contacted me in recent weeks pleading that we ask the Government to do something about their pay and conditions because they are not being properly looked after. That is the truth of it. Providers are under pressure as well, as are parents. Parents are being asked to pay more...

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak. The Minister got these powers when there was an exceptional need and we all accepted there was a need at that time. We extended them in the middle of the summer although I was against doing that at the time. However, it looked like that was going to be the one and only extension but here is the Minister again, barefaced and looking for another...

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I doubt that they are talking at all, that is the honest truth.

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: We will go again and we will tell them the very same and more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have some questions for Mr. Foley. Can he justify the reason the cost of electricity has gone up by so much this year? Will the increases continue? Is the reason for the increase that gas-fired generators are very expensive to run and maintain?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: Would we have been better off economically and financially, especially elderly people trying to heat their homes, if we had continued using Bord na Móna plants in the midlands? Costs seem to have gone up since those places were closed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are in a very uncertain position now. As Ms MacEvilly said, gas prices are very hefty and we are paying through the nose for gas. What Members of the Oireachtas and the Government need to keep in mind is that people will not be able to pay as we go on. There is an old saying, "You can't get blood out of a turnip." People cannot pay if they do not have it. They are being put to the pin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Professor McMullin for his input today. He will agree that offshore wind energy is at least ten years away. In the meantime, and especially this winter, it appears we have an energy shortage and people may be cold in their homes as they may have no option other than electricity. Does Professor McMullin agree there is an urgent need for Shannon LNG to get off the ground and import...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is becoming very clear that the Taoiseach and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine are now looking for cow numbers to be reduced. This is at a time Brazil is cutting down rainforests to increase its cow numbers and despite the fact farmers here were advised to increased production only two short years ago. They were told the Chinese would drink a lot of milk. We all know...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: Clearly, farmers have invested a lot of time and money in their herds and in environmental protection. Why are they being treated like this? Irish farmers, and all the people of Ireland, are under the same sky as other countries. Why are farmers here being treated like this after all they have spent, having been advised to do so. What is the Government at?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: We are all under the same sky.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 Sep 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 362. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding medical card cover (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47338/21]