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All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to ask the Minister of State to provide enough trains and carriages to bring the people from Kerry up to Dublin on Saturday and to bring them home. We are taking on Tyrone and we need our supporters there. We hope we will win the match. We will be looking for more trains then to come up again. We have one train service that operates at different hours...

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the supermarkets are selling them for less, wherever they are getting them, than they could pay the farmers. Deputy Toole talked about the price of grain, which is at an all-time low. It is grand to come up from Kerry and move into good land along the way and see all the fields of grain and corn turning yellow and gold. However, it is sorrowful to hear that farmers are not being paid...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...-of-living package. He told us he would reduce student fees and we cannot understand or agree to them being raised. I appeal to the Minister on behalf of students throughout the country, especially those in County Kerry who have to travel long journeys to go to college, to do the right thing on this occasion.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...houses badly when this extension of time of a second five years, was taken away from them a few years ago and I am glad that something like that is coming back now. Indeed, we have a facility in Kerry, even at the present time, where if people have started building, are up as far as the windowsills but will not have their house finished a month before the planning permission expires, they...

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...present, I am hurt by what we saw on RTÉ. There are a lot of great nursing homes, including family-run nursing homes. We have them in Kenmare, Killarney and other places. We are lucky enough in Kerry that we did not have them, but I worry about the big business companies that own a number of nursing homes. They have a different model. They have to make the thing pay. They are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (2 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...is not under construction. Planning has not yet been granted. It is at the planning stage at present. Anyone who wants to make a submission needs to make it before Friday evening. The people of Kerry need to know what is happening because this will create chaos. The Minister of State spoke about narrowing the road to 7 m. We have been told 6 m. As I said, this went through Kerry...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (2 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...very busy road as it is. It goes through what we know locally as Daly's roundabout and then carries on to the old bypass, which has been built for over 50 years, to Tralee, Killorglin, all of mid-Kerry and wherever you want to go after that. Approximately 40,000 vehicles go through that roundabout each day, maybe 18,000 or 19,000 into Killarney town and 21,000 on to the other places I...

Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...and places and we need to speed up the assessment of need process because early intervention is paramount when dealing with these children. It needs to be addressed at as young as possible. Kerry seems to be very hit very badly. I am sure we all get representations. The Minister of State knows the story. I am not saying anything much about the report because we do not need it....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (1 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 476. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant residential properties in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35739/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (1 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant council houses in Kerry; how soon they will be available for new tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36119/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (1 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 842. To ask the Minister for Health the number of long-stay and short-stay beds that remain unused in Kenmare Community Hospital County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36103/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (1 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 843. To ask the Minister for Health if all the beds in Kenmare Community Hospital Kerry have ever been used since it was opened; if not, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36104/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (1 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 844. To ask the Minister for Health the complement of nursing staff required in Kenmare Community Hospital, Kerry in order to open all the beds there. [36107/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (1 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 845. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds used at one time for respite in Kenmare Community Hospital, Kerry. [36108/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (1 Jul 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: 846. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant beds in the district Killarney community hospital Kerry during April and May 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36109/25]

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...tax-free. That is a laudable way to try to get people to rent out their vacant properties. Planning should be granted to all those who want to build a house for themselves on sites. We have many problems in Kerry with the strict urban generated pressure rule, where people cannot access national primary or national secondary routes because of blockages by the Department, even though...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...this. He has already made a good start and we are depending on the Minister to keep going. What I know from my dealings with people from the North of Ireland, whether it was in marts around Kerry - in Cahersiveen, Castleisland or Kenmare - is that they are very honourable people. They come down here to buy cattle and they pay for our cattle and our sheep. On the other side, for...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Like everyone else, I was horrified by the "Prime Time" exposé. We have great nursing homes both public and private in County Kerry. We have great staff. They are second to none and do their very best. I cannot understand why different rates are paid to public and private nursing homes. I cannot understand that. There is no better place for elderly people to age than at home. We...

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...is no incentive to rent them out. Then people are afraid that they will not get their houses back. In regard to planning permission for those who wish to build their own houses, people in County Kerry have been left behind on this. We have been hard hit by the urban regeneration pressure clause that deprives many young fellows who are four or five miles outside the town. They cannot...

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...I do not see any facility to bring it down if there were a need to do so. There are certain things that arise in this regard. Many people do not get much for the property tax. We had incidents in Kerry this spring where the streetlights were not working in many towns and villages such as Kilgarvan, Castleisland and Scartaglin. There was so much trouble. It took months to get them...