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Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this very serious matter. I am an employer, as was my father going back to 1955 and my son now operates the business. That is almost 70 years. Friday evening, pay day, comes very quickly for businesses. This could be the best country in the world if it was managed properly. TDs on this side of the House are saying the country is awash with...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The five minutes are gone.

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get this opportunity to speak on this serious matter. We commiserate with the families of all those who have died this year and in all the other years on our roads. The Minister has to realise that volumes of traffic have increased massively, especially since Covid. The state of our roads leaves an awful lot to be desired. To mention a few places, we have been calling for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Rubbish

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: We know that.

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank People Before Profit for bringing forward this worthy motion. It is clear that people with disabilities are not being funded properly. I think of the €29 million that was wasted on the referendums and what it would do for people with disabilities. All of us like to have a place to go and something to do to make us relevant. I ask that we ensure that young people who...

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to wish the Minister of State well in his new role. All the very best. I want to thank in particular the Kerry-Cork link bus which takes people to the centre of excellence at CUH for treatment. I also thank all of the volunteers. Again, last Sunday, they put on a massive performance leaving Millstreet and finishing up in the Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (16 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); if the passport will be expedited urgently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16135/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (16 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of passport applications (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16322/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (16 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 715. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16424/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (16 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 745. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to extending the age for funding of treatment option of CAR-T Immunotherapy for leukaemia patients to beyond the age of 25 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16677/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 97. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15880/24]

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: This future investment fund being proposed will amount to €4.1 billion from this year until 2041, up to €100 billion. That is some kind of a rainy day fund. I tell the Minister it is raining and pouring now and many people, not only the farmers, are in trouble. On top of that, the Government is proposing a fund of €2 billion each year until 2030 fund for climate action...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister mentioned one thing there, namely blaming the Middle East and all that. The facts are that a barrel of oil is cheaper now than it has been for a long time and ye are increasing this excise duty now again. Have ye any consideration for the people that are paying their money to fill their tanks? Have ye any consideration or any feeling in your hearts at all? On the one hand,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ----fuel was way cheaper, so the Minister must take a lesser amount now in light of what people are paying now.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many of your spokespersons have said so, and ye are squandering millions.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Two and a half billion euro has been spent on migration, €600 million has been allocated in respect of a road in the North of Ireland----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ----and €860,000 to bring dogs and cats in. Those in government are----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ----putting the petrol and the diesel up by between 4 and 8 cent a litre.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister is in government; Sinn Féin is not. I am asking him to deal with the problem.