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Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I acknowledge the presence of the Minister of State and thank him. I will say about this very important issue that every person goes through life and some people have good luck and good fortune and more people do not. Unfortunately, the people who found themselves in these institutions were very important human beings but were subjected to degrading practices. They were degraded and upset....

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Chair and the Minister of State. I also thank the staff in Deputy Mattie McGrath's office who did a lot of work and research in putting forward this very important motion. I also want to address people who are critical of the Rural Independent Group and say we are trying to be inflammatory with this motion. They are wrong. What we are trying to do is hold the Government to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (1 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19583/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (1 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 178. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be urgently reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19538/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Postal Services (1 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 187. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the section of the regulations outlining the penalties that can be given to post masters (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19742/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (1 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 301. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will be offered to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19745/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Priorities (1 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 305. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department should be looking at highlighting and promoting proper dental hygiene to the public (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19762/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (1 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 313. To ask the Minister for Health The status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19827/24]

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I support the motion, but I am a little confused. While we in the Rural Independent Group support the motion, it seems a little late for Sinn Féin to now be concerned about higher fuel taxes when it has consistently supported them in the past. It failed to support the Rural Independent Group when we moved motions in the House to roll back fuel taxes and scrap the carbon tax. Sinn...

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I continuously remind them of what its leader said in a speech, where it was clearly stated that the Government was not going far enough quick enough. I represent people from Kerry who are hard-pressed to heat their homes and to go to work. That is why we brought forward motions asking the Government to go back on what it was doing. I have been the holder of carbon and marked gas oil...

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is 100% true. I have a memory. I remember that Sinn Féin did not support us when we wanted support in asking the Government to go back on what it had done. The Government has let down the people, and I am sorry to say that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: On 19 December last, Liam Dennehy Quinn was deemed to be in urgent need of an operation for scoliosis. He has been living in University Hospital Kerry for the past 23 days. He is becoming more rigid and is potentially inoperable. He is at risk of needing two operations, rather than one, as well as longer stays in the hospital. His curve was 92° in February. His mother, Pamela, is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: His family has gone through enough. I am not fighting with the Taoiseach or arguing with him. He knows I am not criticising him. I am just asking him to please act for this young little boy.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: He is 13 years of age and he needs a chance at life.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (30 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 232. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19008/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (30 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 267. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 247 of 23 April 2024, if he will provide further information in relation to production staff for fish processing in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19195/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (30 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the boarding grant for students will be increased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18807/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (30 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he plans to take to ensure that there is equity in standards of laboratory facilities and laboratory resources as well as access to laboratory technicians in those schools where no laboratory technicians are available and in which sub-standard laboratories and lack of laboratory resources exist (details supplied); and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (30 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 454. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; if her Department will contact the person in relation to the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19074/24]