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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (16 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be made available to Kerry County Council for emergency works at Lisheen junction at the four-crossroads junction of Lisheen and Gneeveguilla, given there have been several serious accidents at this junction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22204/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is very clear to many that the Government has lost control of the migration issue. At the same time, many of our own young men and women, boys and girls, are leaving this country to go to Australia, Dubai, Canada and other places because they cannot afford to build houses or to buy them. In Kerry, they cannot even get planning permission to build houses. Many of our young farmers are...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is very unfair of the Minister of State to point the finger at the Independents. I raised it with him here last week, and we know what happens with the amendments and all the different issues with them. When we put in submissions or amendments, the Government invariably rules them out, one after the other. That is what happens. How could you put down an amendment to this anyway?...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have nothing at all to apologise for. They have gone far enough. They are away with the fairies, the whole bloody lot of them. Everything they are at they are making a hames of it.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: He is talking about the Fianna Fáil TDs, and they are not concerned about it at all.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I raised this with the Minister last Wednesday evening. I cannot understand how fundraising as we know it has become part of the Bill. I know about the fundraising that goes on in clubs. Most of the work done in local GAA and soccer clubs is done by volunteers who give of their time free of charge. There are things that have to be paid for, such as insurance, travel to games, taking care...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...where people have a meal or two in the course of a day. They set out to spend a few bob, they have so much in their pockets and they can cut their cloth according to their measure. They know what they are doing, but at certain times when they are betting online, they lose and they invariably follow that by trying to redeem their loss and the story keeps getting worse. The next thing...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have been a farmer all my life and I understand very well what farmers are going through and have gone through since 16 June last, since it started raining first. This €100 per hectare is €40 per acre for grain. God almighty, €40 an acre would not bring home one bag of messages. Farmers are being blamed for everything. Farmers are providing food, and if we do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses from the Department. We have to realise the export of calves is vital, especially for the dairy sector, which needs to calve cows every year so that cows continue in milk. The calves have to go somewhere. Farmers cannot be beholden to factories because we know what happens there from time to time, namely, if there is a large increase in young cattle becoming strong...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 650. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans in place to have a specialist nurse in Kerry for the many people who have Parkinson's disease and at the very least need to have access to a nurse in their own county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17871/24]

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...

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...

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...

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: Have ye no feeling in your hearts or bodies at all?

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

Danny Healy-Rae: At the end of March, the average price was €1.60 to €1.62.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Fadhb Thithíochta na Gaeltachta: BÁNÚ (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I apologise for not being able to talk in Irish. I was not lucky enough to have been born in the Gaeltacht area or perhaps to have gone to colleges or whatever to educate myself in the Gaelic language, but that is not to say that I do not respect it and the witnesses. I can identify with the problems they have and, through the translation, I have heard everything they have said. I...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Fadhb Thithíochta na Gaeltachta: BÁNÚ (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: People do not consider getting €350 or the like worth their while in light of all the other obligations that go along with renting a house. If we want to be serious about the issue Mr. Ó hÉallaithe raised and entice people to rent houses to locals, we have to provide the same enticements that are provided to others in respect of people coming from another country. I do...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Sinn Féin has been saying that Deputy Harris is not fit to be Taoiseach. Why did its members not oppose him? Was this not their chance here today to oppose him? If there is any scintilla of independence in the Independent Deputies here in this Chamber today, now is their time to come out and vote for an independent candidate for Taoiseach here today. This is their chance, but most of...