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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...producing calves to a high standard. I have seen them. Even though the farmers’ primary objective is to produce milk, they know they must have good calves before buyers will purchase them for a long journey. All I am asking of the Department is that it ensure the calf export market is maintained. There are rumours of different groups suggesting we should not export calves at...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...and petrol. People who have to travel the roads to get to work are paying an exorbitant price that is not being paid in any other country. A barrel of oil is cheaper today than it has been for a long time in spite of what is happening here in Ireland. There is reckless squandering of money. The Government is telling us that we must opt into this EU migration pact. How is it that we...

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: ...a case to be made for a carbon tax, for those who wanted it, when the cost of fuel was around €1.15 or €1.20, but where are we now? People have no options in rural places when they have to travel long distances to get to work. Hauliers and buses must run on the road, as well as all kinds of commercial vehicles. Fuel costs between €1.74 and €1.80 practically...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...there. No one can connect to that pipe because it is 20 ft or 24 ft under the ground. I asked people to leave out connections, but would they do it? I asked for that in the Chamber two or three times, but the Government was not interested in doing it. Regarding long-term letting and short-term lets like Airbnbs, I firmly believe that, if a person gets planning permission to build a...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the Dáil on many occasions. We have proven that. I agree with Deputy Burke, who said that democracy should not be taken for granted. First of all, I wish Deputy Varadkar well and good health long into the future. In the recent referendum and canvassing generally for our three local election candidates in Kerry, I have never seen people more angry or disillusioned. Farmers see...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... This referendum also seeks to change the definition of the family and the lead part of the Constitution relating to mothers' duties in the home. We must help them and the elderly to stay in their homes for as long as possible. We see every day that carers are not being provided for people who want to stay in their homes. After giving all their lives to the country and the families...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the Independent Group for bringing this Bill to the House but I have my doubts and reservations about taking money out of people's pay packets and handing it over to trade unions. For too long now people have been coming to me from different sectors and walks of life to tell me that trade unions have let them down very badly. Cork University Hospital was mentioned earlier and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... At least he is learning from Deputy Fitzmaurice all the time. To think that the people we vote for voted against the farmers in Brussels yesterday. Where are we going? Like the auld Yanks said long ago, "Man, they said, you can fight them all but you cannot fight city hall." We are fighting a losing battle, lads. It is the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, who put up a case for us to...

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...Jackie Healy-Rae, worked very hard with Dr. Stack and others to provide an out-of-hours service, but we do not have enough GPs in that service now. If you get sick on a Friday evening, it is a long wait until Monday morning. People cannot organise that they will not get sick during those hours because people do. Gone is the day when Dr. O'Callaghan or Dr. Boland would come to the house...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (20 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...happens. She mentioned all the other projects and I am sure they are all very worthwhile, but this project has been awaited for almost 25 years, which is a quarter of a century. We have waited long enough and people have lost their lives. The Government is talking about road safety and how it is going to do drastic things to try to curb the number of accidents, many of which are not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (20 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is to discuss the long-awaited N22 Killarney bypass from Lissyviggeen to Farranfore and from Lissyviggeen to Castlelough on the Muckross Road, the N70, and that this be prioritised to be progressed in this year's programme. I attended the Oireachtas transport committee last Wednesday evening and when I asked Peter Walsh, a senior official of Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII,...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, am glad to have the opportunity to say a few words on this very important development where the parties have come together to operate the power-sharing Assembly in the North. For too long, they had not been agreeing or working but we are glad it is happening now. I appreciate both sides - Sinn Féin and the DUP - coming together. We wish Michelle O'Neill all the very best as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome Mr. Walsh and Mr. O'Neill. The last time we met was at the opening of the long-awaited Macroom bypass, which we welcome very much. The Killarney bypass has been promised for many years. We thought we were getting close last year but we were then told no funding was being made available to TII. The road is a continuation of the Macroom bypass and is also called the Kerry-Cork...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...not in any way blaming TII. The relevant Minister has been quoted as saying it was not a priority, so I do not know the status of it but we will say no more about that. We have been waiting for a long time. When the proposal was put to us on a massive display in the Great Southern hotel in 2004, a lot of work had gone into it by then, so we thought the timeframe would have been two or...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of a medical card, do not qualify for one. I want the same benefits and conditions to be made available to Irish people. They should all get the same ophthalmology and dental treatments. For as long as I can remember, in order to qualify for free school transport a child had to be living more than two miles from the nearest primary school. This is not the case for Ukrainian...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...and housed. They also get school transport and free postage. One thing that hurt me very much at a time when I was looking for a special wheelchair for a person who has been incapacitated in Ireland for a long time was that I saw a vanload of game chairs for Ukrainian children inside in a post van. That is the gospel truth. Our children are getting no game chairs. If the Government is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... The consumers, though, will have to get their food somewhere else, and it does not matter to the Government whether it is from Brazil, Argentina or New Zealand. The Government does not mind as long as it can get the figures here down. But we are all under the same sky, so surely if we are talking about the climate and carbon emissions, then it should also matter if the other crowd are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Sector Pensions (5 Dec 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...here for is to see that fair play is given to everyone who comes to us. This is a very serious matter. The Minister of State said it was before the Labour Court, but it has been going on for so long and these people are so old. They are now at an age when they want fair play. If this carries on for two or three more years, how many of them will die away? Is that what CIÉ wants?...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nitrates Usage (21 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...that, even as we speak, many farmers will go out of business in the next few years because their young fellas are not taking up dairy farming. They find it too difficult and the hours too long. The vilification of farmers and the cow is stopping young fellas from going into it. There is no encouragement. They feel like they are blamed for the rain, the heat and everything else. No...