Results 101-120 of 834 for long speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...up to become a plumber or electrician, it would never see a hungry day or a poor day. We want to encourage that so we have roofers and people who can build and use the two hands God gave them. Long ago, there were courses and organisations such as AnCO where people could go away and learn the trade of publican and other trades in the hospitality sector, such as chefs, and all that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Dec 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 750. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time a person (details supplied) will be waiting for a long-term stay bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61930/21]

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ..., isn't it great", or, "How are they managing it at all?" Ten or 20 years ago you would take no notice. I do not want a situation like during the boom when if you stood in the one spot for too long, somebody could build a house on top of you, because we were gone crazy that time. We want to see measured building and the homes being sold at an affordable rate. The Minister is the...

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

Michael Healy-Rae: ..., I want money to be provided, but I also want it to be used well. Greyhound Racing Ireland must be forced, as a condition of funding, to engage proactively with all stakeholders. The body can no longer be allowed to alienate the very people it was established to serve, namely, those people who adore their dogs. For too long, this organisation has operated in a silo capacity and has...

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...the Rescue 116 investigation have got with such a small amount of money? As the Minister of State knows, I come from a constituency in County Kerry with a vast coastline and hardworking fishermen all along our coast. I understand from the Marine Hazards Limited report published on 4 January 2021, which was introduced at pre-legislative scrutiny stage, that many accidents where fishermen...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I warmly welcome the Bill. It is certainly an issue that I and other people have campaigned long and hard for. For example, many solicitors in County Kerry contacted me. Their offices were closed because of the pandemic, which was necessary for the protection of people's health, but when they and their staff came back to work, they were up against it with their workload. They also had the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...that you need comes on wheels. It does not fall out of the sky. The majority of things in this country are imported in containers. I am acutely aware of the cost of containers. Not so long ago, you could get a container for between €1,800, and €3,500, whereas now you can pay €8,000, €9,000 or €10,000 for the same container. That is a startling...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...most sincerely the people who operate the service in County Kerry with whom I have considerable dealings. The personnel in the ambulances are excellent, kind, diligent, hard-working and put in very long hours. I meet them regularly when they are finishing shifts, starting shifts and in between shifts. They are very frustrated, to say the least, at how the system is being managed. ...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (16 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...through a tough time. The publicans were used to seeing their houses closed on Christmas Day and one other day in the year. It was very upsetting and unsettling for them to have to shut down for such a long period of time. I say this to each and every one of these businesses which have survived the pandemic or have had their doors open. You would swear I had a problem with drink...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...have a problem at the moment that many people are struggling and we are just trying to look out for them. We are just trying to ensure those people will survive. I have been talking for the last long while about mam's purse. Mam's purse is under attack and it is not in order. When that purse is not in order at the weekend then we are in trouble. Whether you are the Minister for...

Regional Transport Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...is becoming scarcer and at the same time we are telling people to use more of it. If you own a diesel car the message should be to hold onto it, maintain it, change the oil in it and keep it running for as long as you can. You are doing better for the environment by doing that then by buying something for which the production of its battery is an enormous blow to the environment. That...

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: As always, I want to put on the record that this is an issue that I know a lot about as I have been involved in it for a long time. It is a simple, straightforward problem to tackle. We need to supply more local authority houses. We need to build more houses and provide more accommodation of all types. In the county that I represent, we desperately need more one and two-bedroom...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (12 Oct 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: .... When the Government says it wants Ireland to be completely smoke-free by 2025 or something like that, I do not agree with it because there is such a thing as freedom of choice. It is not that long since there was a referendum in this country where all the talk was about "my body, my choice" and people will do what they wish. That was the way it was, there was a vote on it and we had...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: -----with the hospitality sector. No, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, it is not Galway. Galway would be coming down along the ladder and the people there are also great. Our hospitality sector is reeling tonight at the fact that after having come out of the pandemic when they were shut for so long and went through so much, its representatives are now asking how they are going to manage next year...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...not able to avail of it. What good is a scheme if people cannot buy their houses? I want that to be looked at. I know it is under review but, my goodness, it has been under review for a very long time. I want it to move on. I listened intently to all sides of the House. People in here know I do not go out of my way to criticise others but there seems to be a mentality of people...

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...;na, one of his proudest moments. It was a shameful moment, one that he, the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, and all in the other parties and none who supported that decision will regret for a long time. One of the aims of the programme for Government 2016 was an LNG project for the Shannon Estuary. In the infinite wisdom of Government, we now do not need an LNG project. Of...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Sep 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...that until I heard Deputy Michael Collins talking about it. The Minister might think it means nothing but, on a personal basis, it is hurtful. There have been Healy-Raes in County Kerry for a long time, and when a Minister ever came to Kerry, that Minister would always tell us what he or she was doing and were he or she was going. I know every one of the people the Minister met. I was...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (20 per cent Provision of Social and Affordable Housing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...;480 because €520 of that goes on tax. When I see houses being sold out of the private sector, I am fearful this will lead to situations whereby there is less housing available to the people who need to rent. Renting is not a long-term solution. I would like to see it used as a short-term solution and that the State would provide more and more housing. That is the answer. I...

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...that, do I agree with the motion before us? Would I vote against the Minister personally? I would not. He is a good, solid political worker. Saying different is not factual. I have known him a long time, going back to our time on the Southern Health Board. I saw a worker then, I see one now and I cannot go against that. I have nothing to gain by voting in the Minister's favour,...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will be brief as I know we are caught for time. I thank the Minister of State because we are now where we have wanted to be for a long time. I am disappointed with some of the content of this Bill. There are still anomalies and concerns, particularly surrounding assets, whether they are family farms or other similar assets. I have always said that a family farm should never be looked...