Results 41-60 of 834 for long speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: .... We have to protect the people in dairy. There was finger pointing about the production of milk about 12 months ago when it was at a high, and my God, they were entitled to that high, but it did not last for long because milk has gone down dramatically. The income of someone milking 50 or 70 cows will have taken a dramatic hit. The cost of fertiliser is still exorbitant. It has gone...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...converted, the owner should be encouraged to proceed and should not be dissuaded from doing so. Obstacles should not be put in their way. We are looking to instruct the Minister to publish the long-promised new rural housing guidelines to bring clarity and certainty to rural communities and to ensure that new rural planning guidelines allow for planning permission to be given for...

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...apprenticeships is possible and probable, but it is very hard. We will need plasterers and all types of tradespeople. We have to encourage people and make sure to get back to the system we had long ago, when we had AnCO and different things. Great work is being done in Killarney and Tralee and I appreciate the efforts the Minister of State, his Department and others are making. I am...

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...and in the background, but in a thoughtful and hardworking and diligent way. He is a retired Deputy of the House, Martin Ferris from County Kerry. He certainly put his shoulder to the wheel for a long period of time. It was a long hard slog for him, for people such as Bertie Ahern, for all the people from Fine Gael and all the political parties. Many of them have gone to their eternal...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...sector. I certainly do not agree with going after Airbnb properties. It will prove to be folly in the future. Anybody in the Government who believes 12,000 people can be made to change from renting in the short term to renting in the long term needs to reflect on it. Eighty percent of people surveyed recently said they will not be forced to do so.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ..., I want to highlight what I said already about Brazil. It is going ahead and increasing its output and capacity at a time when the Government is looking to reduce our capacity. It is not long ago that a Minister here spoke about liquid gold, that is, milk. Talk about a see-saw. One minute the Government is encouraging people to produce; then it says: No, pull back. Give the young...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...from people looking for permission to do short-term lets because they have been directed by the Government and others who think that 12,000 people are going to change from short-term lets to long-term lets. That will not happen. People cannot be forced to do something with their property that they do not want to do. A group of people representing short-term let operators recently stated...

Finance Bill 2023: Financial Resolution (18 Apr 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...private dwelling houses or farm buildings, should not have solar panels on them. This would be a sensible aim for the Government and all of us to be promoting. It would certainly be a help in the long term in reducing people's energy costs and a sensible and affordable solution, given proper supports and grant aid being provided to people to install these panels. I wish to highlight,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...heating costs. This is affecting people who have bought their home and have a mortgage. Another question is around where it leaves the people who are unable to get a mortgage. What will we do in the long term for working people in this country who might have not one but two incomes - often two good incomes - but who are being refused a mortgage by the banks? We are in a crazy situation...

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...organisations and events, such as concerts, are affected. Cards are important when a massive amount of people are going to a concert but we must always remember that cash is legal tender in Ireland and as long as that is the case, it should be accepted and respected.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...of the IRHA and Mr. Tim Cullinan of the IFA. I have tremendous respect for both organisations. I have been a member of the IFA for all of my adult life, and I am glad to be a member. I am a lifelong supporter of the work the IRHA does. First of all, I will acknowledge the day that is in it by talking about women in farming. I want to acknowledge one woman whom I have never...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ... young people are diligently going out and doing their day's work, saving and doing everything they can, but then they have to face the bank. God be good to some of the people we had in banks long ago. Some of them passed on to their eternal reward, while others are still alive but now retired. They had autonomy and could judge a character. They could look at a person and decide to...

Anniversary of Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...How would we feel tomorrow, if we had to leave everything that we had here and go somewhere else with a couple of bags and a few close family members and have to live? Whether it is for a short or long time, who knows? It is right that we acknowledge that here today, debate it and use the political system to talk about how we will address the issue because, with housing, one needs...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ..., all we want is that our children have happy-go-lucky, carefree and happy times and that when they grow up into adulthood, they can look back on their memories with fondness and smile and think of long summer days maybe out in a field of hay or going to the bog cutting turf and helping out, doing the ordinary, simple things such as going up a country lane to pick strawberries. We wish...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...looking for is respite. They are more than willing to and capable of keeping their special child at home in their own environment. They want to do that and they will do that in the best way. As long as they are breathing, they will do it but what they want is respite. I am very grateful for the respite services that we got in north Kerry and for the great people on the ground locally....

Inshore Fishing: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: I would give time to the Minister to answer that specific case because it will not take long. I will stop in time to allow the Minister to come in and answer that charge. Did his Department receive an application? If it did, why did it not provide the €300,000 required?

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...Minister of State should not think she will shout me down. I have a couple of minutes to ask her a few questions. I remind her that in 1946 we had a person who was worse than her. It was that long ago. She is a failed Minister. God help the Green Party, God help her and God help forestry. It is a disgrace.

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (17 Dec 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...a better Government. I and others on this side of the House will remind him of that in the best and most constructive way we can. When we do so, it is not personal - it is us doing our job and speaking up for the people. As long as I live, I will never understand why people alongside Deputy Varadkar think it is a good idea to stop people from cutting turf. I will remember those people...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ..., but I have problems with the policies, such as the attack on short-term lets and properties rented on airbnb. It is argued that the Government's policies will bring 12,000 homes back into the long-term rental sector. That will not happen. The Government is not providing enough money on the ground to do up vacant properties. We need €2.7 million in Kerry. The Taoiseach told me...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Strategic Vision: Coillte (13 Dec 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...the ground to contractors getting paid as little as possible. I must declare that I was one of those workers working for as little as possible for Coillte, carrying out sodding for the Department long ago when it was the Department of forestry. What is happening now is that forests that were clear-felled in the 1980s have been clear-felled again, and there has been a massive drop in...