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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...briefly raise a couple of other issues. A fair share of the Brexit Adjustment Reserve, BAR, fund must be ring-fenced for farmers. We are facing potential displacement in the UK market in 2024 of maybe €300 million of beef and €75 million of sheep meat due to the Australia and New Zealand trade deals. We have to be very careful about how we will protect our farmers. To...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: Members of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association, including some from County Kerry, had to come here today to protest. They are demanding an urgent €50 million support package for sheep farmers to be funded from the Brexit reserve fund. They also want the sheep improvement scheme to be increased towards €30 per ewe and an extra €5 per ewe for the correct...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...Look at what the Government has taken from the people. Pensions have been increased by €5, the living alone allowance has been increased by €3 and the fuel allowance has been increased by €5. Look at what has been taken from those very same people through the carbon taxes. They are already hitting people through the massive increase in the cost of electricity,...

Greyhound Industry: Motion [Private Members] (25 Nov 2020)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...with a person having a drink? Is there something wrong with a person having a bet? There is not. I am friends with people who go to the racetrack in Tralee on a weekly basis. They might bet €5 a night in total, placing 50 cent on this dog and 50 cent on that. They are making small bets. These are retired people, predominantly, and they love the enjoyment of the bit of sport....

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...continuously. Of course, we must also talk about the elderly and disabled. I agree with the sentiments of Deputy Michael Collins, who stated the Government is boasting about an increase of €5 per week but not giving it to people until March. As a rule, it has always been the way of Governments and Departments of Finance to apply increases at midnight but not give out any...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Staff (10 Oct 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: 611. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on allocating €5 million to increase the 5% non-contact time for core staff being built into the proposed new affordable childcare scheme to 10%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42690/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2017)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...gave a clear plan to the Minister for Health as to how for instance in County Kerry we could tackle the problem. So far, although the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, has given more than €5 million for ophthalmology, we are not tackling the problem. There is a solution. The Minister has the solution. I ask the Taoiseach in the nicest possible way to please ensure that...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...when the new Government had a chance to start repaying the Irish people for the hardship they have had to endure since the crash in 2008. This, unfortunately, did not happen. I welcome the €5 increase in the old age pension and across all social welfare payments. Some of these increases could have gone further. For example, carers, who are saving the State millions of euro...

Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Apr 2016)

Michael Healy-Rae: The issues that I wish to raise in the short time that I have regard County Kerry. A €2 million four-bed high-observation unit in University Hospital Kerry was completed in December 2014 but remains closed and is yet to be commissioned due to nursing staff shortages. An €8.5 million 40-bed long-stay rehabilitation unit was completed on St. Margaret's Road, Killarney, in...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: Before we adjourned I was addressing amendment No. 58 and I was complimenting the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, on the amendment she had proposed. I wish to condemn in the strongest possible way the decision taken by the Chief Whip and the people who voted for this ridiculous decision to take the vote at 5 a.m. It is not that anybody on this side of the House is flinching at the idea of...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lease Agreements (13 Mar 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding a State agency (details supplied) that has paid almost €5 million in rent on a vacant property in the past five years, a building that it is unable to sublet to others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13398/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lease Agreements (13 Mar 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding a State agency (details supplied) that has paid almost €5 million in rent on a vacant property in the past five years, a building that it is unable to sublet to others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13398/13]

Written Answers — Credit Unions: Credit Unions (18 Oct 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Finance his view on the fact that the approximately 400 credit unions are financially healthy, that they have €12 billion in assets, loans of €5 million and €1.7 billion in reserves, but over-regulation is actually threatening the stability of the credit unions by adversely affecting their most important source of income, loan interests; his...

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Apr 2011)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...it is very important. I have reservations about the Bill, bearing in mind that the mail volume has fallen by a massive 16% since the start of 2009, with each 1% drop accounting for a loss of €5 million. As traditional letter-writing dies out and customers turn to e-billing, An Post has indicated it will have to cut staff by more than 400 by the end of the year. The postal service is...