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Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of scoliosis and funding almost two years ago with the then Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin. He actually got very agitated and cross when I had asked him because he had made an announcement of €5 million. This was a number of months afterwards because people were still ringing because their children were in pain, they were waiting and they wanted approval to go abroad....

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...he was helping in the private health insurance sector as well. The Bill does nothing to reduce the cost of private health insurance. The cost of the average adult policy has increased by at least 5% since last year. Year on year, it is going up 5%. Many people have contacted me to say that even if you have health insurance, you will have to wait six months to be seen, which is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (7 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...will be responsible for sewerage schemes from now on. It says it will charge €4,000 per customer. I do not think that will work. It will not work in this case. It is a fright to God to spend €9 million of taxpayers' money and not ensure all the people along the road, who are adjacent to the road, are accommodated. There are between 50 and 70 houses that are not...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the television news we see these children crying. Parents, meanwhile, are demented with worry. These operations can be done in the UK if there is money for them. The Taoiseach said he gave €5 million to someone last week when he was questioned by Deputy Mary Lou McDonald. Who did he give it to? Where is it? The Taoiseach said that and we want accountability for these poor...

River Shannon Management Agency Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Nov 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...Kevin Boxer Moran, came down and stood on Curreal Bridge. I thank him for coming down. He gave us €160,000 to clear the branches that were blocking the river. We were flooded out of it in late 2015 and early 2016 but the road and houses have not been flooded since the work was done. It only took three weeks of cutting branches and trees. It is a delight to pass up and down by...

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...warming hoax persist and spread to the detriment of human freedom. Farmers who have cattle were supposed to be causing massive methane gas emissions. Now the very professor who told us that 15 years ago is admitting that he exaggerated by two thirds. In yesterday's NASA papers, this was highlighted, and it was referred to in a television programme yesterday. At times, the Earth is 5...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... Last week in this Chamber I highlighted the case of a Libyan buyer who was waiting more than three months for a visa so that he could come here to purchase more than 4,000 bulls worth €5 million. I welcome that, following my intervention, he received his visa, but it is too late because he has gone to Spain to do his business there. I hope he will return to Ireland another...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to go into bull beef, to deviate away from bullocks, but now nobody wants to take the bull beef. There has been a complete slowdown. A Libyan purchaser wanted to come here to buy 4,000 cattle worth €5 million. The Tánaiste is the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. This Libyan man applied for a visa in mid-November to be allowed to come to see the cattle. The boat and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I suppose the Taoiseach is aware that a €5 million contract was lost recently. A Libyan cattle buyer who wanted to buy 400 bulls had applied for a visa in mid-November to come to this country to see what he was buying. To date, he has been given no account of the status of his visa. He has now gone to Spain to purchase these animals. Previous taoisigh and Ministers for justice and...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...The Health Service Executive is top heavy. There has to be managers, and there are good people there, but it is overloaded with managers and there is not enough front-line staff. With the €700 million extra that is being given this year, will we see any improvement in the services for the sick people and those who need attention? I worry that we will not. It is more money but we...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...account for what happened in these sad cases. It is sad to think other women are out there with a death sentence hanging over them. They know they will die as well. The Minister allocated €700 million more to the health service, bringing the total extra allocation for the year to €1.2 billion, but will it make a difference to those people waiting on trolleys? In Kerry...

Companies (Statutory Audits) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (10 Jul 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...because they know they will not pay the subcontractors at the end of the job but will let them go whistle their ducks and not pay them the last of their money. I know of one company that had €20 million practically written off. It reddened people from Malin Head to Mizen Head and down through the country, including small shopkeepers and operators who needed their money but they...

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to do that. Before the Government gets away with it, there will be many other battles here, there and everywhere because it is people's democratic right to build a house for themselves. The €5 million for the spin machine would help to provide more beds for people in places like Kerry General Hospital where there are 30 or 40 people on trolleys every day even at this time of year....

Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Dec 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...our attention and for bringing this Bill before the Dáil. We have heard a lot about the Taoiseach's new strategic communications unit which is, in other words, a spin machine. He will spend €5 million on this project which will aid Government Ministers and ensure the favourable political fortunes of the Government. While there has been a long-standing convention that the...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...what my colleagues have said in respect of social welfare payments. People are very hurt and angry about the meagre extra amount they will now receive. They have been told that they will get €5 but it is not even clear if they will get that full amount. They will now have to wait for another six months, well into next year, and Christmas will have passed before they can get that...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...welcome the increase of 2,400 in the number of teaching posts. Education is very important and if we do not a provide a proper education for children, we are going nowhere. I welcome the €5 per week increase in the old-age pension and for social welfare recipients. However, I am disappointed that they will have to wait until practically halfway through the year for the...