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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...with a bookie online. Everybody is talking about this because it seems to be hitting youngsters and young families the hardest. There are fellas who used to have a flutter on race days or dog race nights. There are people who enjoy that kind of thing and they do it sensibly. However, this has to be curtailed or curbed somehow if this Bill is to mean anything to people who seem to be...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the pension age will not be increased. The Minister needs to realise that many people are paying 40% tax, some of them 52% in tax and 4.5% USC on top of that. We see €860,000 being spent to bring dogs and cats into the country and the country is alive with dogs. I wish the dogs could vote for me; there are dogs around in every yard. We have plenty of dogs without paying to bring...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...;1 per litre for excise duty and carbon tax. The Government is getting €1 for every litre and it is still not satisfied. It wants to charge more. Already, €2.5 billion is being spent on immigration and €860,000 for bringing dogs and cats from abroad into Ireland and assisting people to bring these pets. There is no shame in the world in the Government. It is...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ----and €860,000 to bring dogs and cats in. Those in government are----

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...in VAT and energy and rates costs. The Government has failed completely on housing. In the immigration debacle, more than €2 billion has been spent. The Government even spent €860,000 to bring dogs and cats into the country for these immigrants. The Government is squandering money, and yet those who are out in the morning working are paying 40% tax and 4.5% USC charges....

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...empathise and sympathise with their predicament, be fair about the bloody thing. That is what I am asking for the Government to be. It came out the other day that the Government paid €850,000 to house and accommodate dogs and pets for people coming from Ukraine. We have enough dogs and pets here in Ireland and there is plenty of them to be got. If it was a dog here, you would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...we have, I say we are up against a concrete wall. It is very wrong. Every elected Member and people who are not elected are entitled to their opinions but it is very wrong that the Green tail is now wagging the dog. I cannot understand why the Government allows this to happen and it hurts small fellows like the man I have mentioned. When I hear about water quality, I get very worried....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Development of the Sheep Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...will get out of it? It is a tough game because it involves climbing mountains. I know they have quad bikes, but there are parts of these places where you could not travel with any quad bikes. Good dogs are harder to get and people do not have the time to train them. You cannot do much around sheep without a good dog. They are costly to get. Are our guests concerned about this...

A5 Route Upgrade: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael succumbed to the tail wagging the dog, or the Green Party, on this. We do not see much public transport. I do not know what people in the north west see by way of public transport, but we do not see it in Kerry anyway. Rather, we see big, flashy buses in Dublin, double-deckers or whatever, and one or two people at the most inside them. That is where the...

Financial Resolution No.3: Value-Added Tax (22 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...vilified and demonised in a desperate way. They should not be. Our people are as good as any people in any part of the world but they are not being treated as such. There is a green tail wagging the dog and they are giving people an awful lot of grief. In Germany there is no problem in the world and they are opening up coal mines again. They are even moving a village to open a coal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...we have is peat and they will not allow us to use 0.1% of the bogland of Ireland. We have a Government that is supposed to be called a Government. The Green Party tail is wagging the Government dog. That is what is happening. There were certainly other options open to the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste when they were forming the Government but they were hell bent on joining with the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... It is to keep the Taoiseach in power until the end of the year and to make him Tánaiste next year and to keep the Ministers behind in place. That is what it is. The tail is wagging the dog. The dogs in the street see and know that. The Taoiseach has not answered or explained what is going on in Russia, China or the US. They are using massive amounts of oil, diesel, coal and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...he most likely would have an electric gate and you would not get inside that. He is the very same man who wants to open up the country, spread disease and do what he likes. He might bring an old dog with him or something that would hunt sheep. These are ridiculous types of suggestions and statements. I know that the Chair would not approve of that and nor would any of the...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2021: Motion (30 Nov 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...these industries return these funds back to the coffers in abundance. It has been said horse racing accounts for some 29,000 jobs, while the doggy people provide 12,000 and are working very hard with their dogs. They treat them very well. It was sad the industry got a bit of a bad name for a while because of a few rogues, but 99% of these people are genuine. They live for their dogs...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to support this amendment. As I understand it, the property tax was meant to be a residential tax. It now looks like if the farmer has a henhouse or a dog house, those hens or dogs will be charged the property tax as well. The amount of land around the property is to be increased to a hectare, which is 2.5 acres, which is totally unfair. This is like the...

Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (17 Feb 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... Eco schemes, it appears to many, are to satisfy dreams, paralyse farmers and deprive them of finance they badly need. The cost of feeding and fertiliser is another issue. Another issue is dog control in places like Shrone. Walkers with dogs that are not tied up are worrying sheep in those places. I also support the calls for felling licences to be speeded up and pay for the...

Household Utility Bills Support: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...a shed to dry before they used it. They were proud to sit in front of their fires, which kept them warm, going back decades and centuries. The Taoiseach is following the Green Party out the gap like a dog following a flock of sheep. He is doing everything it tells him. Last night we heard the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, boasting that we are going to lead the way. I...

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (27 Jan 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...not be denied this money as a result of this or any other fraud. None of us in the House condone or support fraud and we are certainly behind any laws that would prevent same. It was mentioned that dogs and pets are being stolen. I know one person who had a very valuable dog and he is fairly sure that it was stolen recently, or anyway he cannot find the dog, and it disappeared for no...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (1 Dec 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of the loss in gate receipts and other fundraising events it would have had. I am sorry many lies were told by the Social Democrats around the funding and about the care owners take of their dogs. I did not meet one person in all of Kerry last weekend who was against giving the money to the greyhound sector. They had high praise for it and thanked us for ensuring the funding. For...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get an opportunity to talk on behalf of the greyhound owners in Kerry who love their dogs. It is their culture and their sport and they are entitled to have it, like everyone else. To say that it is wrong to give this money to the greyhound industry is totally wrong. These people deserve and are entitled to their sport. RTÉ said that 6,000 dogs were destroyed but that is...