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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (18 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the opportunity to raise again the proposed Killarney bypass. I have raised this matter several times in this Chamber since I was elected to it in 2016. The Minister was in the Black Valley in Kerry last Friday. It was good to see a Minister in the Black Valley because it is a very remote place and we are glad that connectivity has improved with the launch of broadband in that area. ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (18 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...Government and the Minister for Transport to ensure they approve €1.5 million out of the investment programme for next year to ensure phase 3 of the Killarney bypass, which is also known as the Cork-Kerry economic corridor, is delivered next year to proceed to design and environmental evaluation, to deal with landowners, to agree accommodation works, and to continue with a planning...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...one to one all day and night until the person got better. We cannot do that anymore. It is not happening anymore, but it has to happen because so much of this is happening across the country, in Kerry, Cork and everywhere else. Family members know that something has gone wrong, but they cannot do anything about it. They talk to their family members, but so many of them are not trained....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is fairly hard for any Deputy in the House to get elected. For each Deputy, it is a difficult ordeal. Notwithstanding that, it is easy enough to come up from Kerry. There are no restrictions all the way on the road up but it is getting increasingly more difficult to come into this building. On my way, I went out of the Dáil and I wanted to come back up through Molesworth Street....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...focus of attention on local authorities and this problem. I cannot understand another small aspect of this grant for treating septic tanks. Sometimes I have to ring the environment section of Kerry County Council to see if someone qualifies for the grant. A young girl asked me the other day whether she would qualify. The engineer at the other end of the line told me she will, but the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...is being provided. We are all under the same sky. It seems to be the case that farmers are suffering. This man - I will name him - Tim Early from Inchibeg, Rathmore, has the last house in Kerry going out the Millstreet road. He had to cut his cow numbers from 58 to 48. He had everything right, no bother in the world, but it was too expensive for him to rent more land. His young...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. Senior engineers with Kerry County Council, Tadhg Meehan, Paul Neary and Charlie O’Leary, technical engineers like Freddie Bartlett and Mike Downey, and several others have invested an awful lot of time trying to resolve this issue. When I hear the Minister of State saying that it is up to the local authorities to make up the shortfall, I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of funding for two estates that lie together on the top Aghadoe - Birch Hill and Old Killarney Village. There is a problem with the sewerage systems, for which planning permission was granted. Kerry County Council has cited problems with this going back almost ten years. In 2020, funding was given by the Department of 75% of the cost; €401,000 was given at that time, leaving a...

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am not taking dictation from you. I represent the people of Kerry and Ireland and they are asking why people coming in here are not being vetted. You are being unfair to our people because there are accidents and all kinds of assaults and there is no accountability. They are not being checked out coming in here. That is not fair. Do not shake your head. They do not even have a...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about the very important matter of accommodation for college students. Kerry students have a serious difficulties at different times in getting accommodation in places like Limerick and Cork. The Minister of State will appreciate that Limerick is a savage distance from some parts of Kerry. It takes two hours to get from Killarney to Limerick, but...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The people in Kerry are being left behind.

Tackling All Forms of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... Too much of this is going on, but it is not being reported. Women are slow to leave the home because they feel it might be a reflection on them when it truly is not. We have a serious problem in Kerry. Killarney needs dedicated accommodation to help the people who approach elected representatives seeking help. Killarney does not even have a homeless shelter. As such, people have...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...amount of it anyway, is coming from that. We need places for women and children who need refuge when situations such as this arise. We do not have such places, or enough of them anyway, in Kerry. The people who come to me in conditions of serious distress have nowhere to go.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Jul 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of their lives, trying to get on the ladder and get going. The answer is that we must provide more accommodation, especially in Cork and Limerick. The current situation is affecting people in Kerry in a way that is causing real hardship.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get an opportunity to say a few words about the late, great Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh. He was a great Kerryman who had a unique voice and created excitement in all the games he commentated on. It was better to listen when he commentated on the radio than to watch the game on the television because there was more drama. He created excitement and he knew so much...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ..., who are getting social welfare, being housed in hotels and getting school transport at their request, with €800 being paid tax-free to landlords who rent houses to them. This cannot be done for Kerry people. Ukrainian refugees get medical cards and they are not even sick. There are 70 asylum seekers housed in the Holiday Inn beside a 90-year-old woman on the Muckross Road. Why...

Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...I thank all those who put the motion together. It is very important that we bring this matter to the Government's attention. Tourism and the hospitality sector are of vital importance to County Kerry. So much depends on it. In recent times, or since January in any case, many restaurants and small cafés have closed. There are different reasons for this but the VAT rate is the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: State Pathology Service (19 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Minister of State for the reply but with regard to a lot of the stuff he said, we know what happens and what is supposed to happen but it has not been happening in Kerry. I am not making it up that three very good friends of mine had to wait six, eight and nine days, with the funeral taking up to 11 days in all. There have also been several more that I was not aware of but was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: State Pathology Service (19 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: When will the State appoint a pathologist to serve County Kerry? The two pathologists we had previously have been retired for well over six months. Many families have had to wait six, eight or nine days for a pathologist to arrive to carry out the necessary examination, make a conclusion on the cause of death and return the remains to the family. In recent times, the families of three very...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to talk about this very important topic this evening. I thank Sinn Féin and Deputy Tully for giving us the opportunity. I thank carers and home helps all around the country but especially in Kerry for the great work they do and continue to do. I must compliment one man who lives up the street and who came home from Limerick. Kilgarvan is a small place and he is only three doors up...