Results 41-60 of 351 for long speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Testing: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am asking if the witnesses can do anything for Kerry, for Killarney and Tralee. Are we at the end of the line? Will Mr. Walsh admit that 12 months is too long to have to wait to apply for a test?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Testing: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is an awful long time for youngsters who have their lessons done and who have done all that it is required, including the theory test and so on. All Mr. Walsh can tell me at this point is that he hopes the thing will be in order by the middle of next year, the middle of 2024. God almighty, that is like the story, leave horse until you get grass. It is not good enough. If Mr. Walsh...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...at what is going on. We have to be fair to our own people. They are the people who have kept communities and rural areas going for generations. I thank the Cathaoirleach. I know it has been a long evening but I stuck it out to make my contribution.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...their motor tax and every other kind of tax, but whole lanes of traffic are choked day after day. The Government says this is supposed to help with our carbon footprint but if people are twice as long in their cars waiting to go somewhere because they are held up in traffic and the traffic will not move, the argument for that is long gone. I support the people from the north west, and...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this timely motion. We have all known for a long time that the nursing homes are in trouble. I acknowledge the presence of all the people in the Gallery, who include managers and staff from small nursing homes and Mr. Tadhg Daly who is in charge of the representative body. I also welcome Timmy Murphy from Brosna who, with his family, runs a...

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...public representative is dealing with. On an hourly basis, there is someone ringing about home help. When people get elderly and have little problems, they want to stay in their own homes for as long as possible. We should be doing a lot more to help these people stay in their homes and give them the home help they need. There are desperate anomalies. In Kerry, there are people...

Education Costs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...are accommodated. That is why I worry about Governments that make statements that children will always be transported because the next Government that comes into office seems to forget that. As long as we are elected here to represent the people, we will keep reminding the Government that those commitments were given in every parish. As well as Kilgarvan, they were given in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...funding. I will appreciate her and I will not deny her the credit that is due to her if she can make a case for us to get more funding at this time. With 30 years of a wait, many of us would long dead, gone and buried and there would be no account of us if we have to wait that long.

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of years. He did the right thing. Many ordinary, down-to-earth people appreciate our neutrality and they understand it. We are not even paying the personnel in our Army properly. It is not so long ago since they had to get family income supplement to supplement their incomes. We do not, therefore, have an army as such, but I do support this motion. We should not be causing pain to or...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...understand and know what it is to employ people safely and pay them properly. Friday evening comes very quickly when businesses employ people who need and have to be paid. They will not last too long if we do not pay them. I am glad that people are now properly paid, which is very good because they work for their money and are entitled to that. We appreciate the people who work for us...

Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I do not see the benefit in that. When you see a flame a mile long underneath it-----

Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...buy them. I have no doubt about that. Diesel and petrol cars are reliable and will take people the distance. It is about getting people from A to B, especially those in rural Ireland. They have longer journeys to make and depend on a reliable car. There is the question of if and when we will have infrastructure sufficient and adequate to provide the service people need. They need a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Code (18 Apr 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...is wrong. These are active farmers. It is recognised there is no demand for this development land around Killarney. There is no demand as such. In 20 years' time, if farmers have to wait that long, their land might still not be sold because we are waiting for a bypass. For some of these farmers, their only access is onto the national primary road, which is the N22 going to Killarney....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...or her house back, it could take up to four years. People cannot or will not put themselves in that situation, because they might want to get the house back to sell it or want it back to put a family member into it. That timeframe is therefore too long. People will then have to deal with the RTB, which is overregulating the thing to the point people are afraid to rent out their homes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... There are people who would build their own houses on their land but are denied the right to do that. If they go to another location they will be denied the right to build because they are not long enough there under the residency rule. I am asking for that to be looked at as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will, but I have no problem in saying it now so long as the officials listen to me, because these things are important. Everyone we can house counts, whether it is with planning permission or getting through the blockage so people can rent houses that are vacant. We should look at everything. I am glad to have got the opportunity to speak and thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me.

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...need more facilities to cater for the massive influx. This is urgent. It is an emergency. I hope the application from Knocknagree National School is not one of the 58 because it has been on the list for a long time. There are other issues such as school transport. There is a difficulty with acquiring new buses. Contractors have asked that the 20-year rule be extended for two or...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Challenges Facing Providers of Tourist Accommodation in Ireland: Discussion (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: I welcome the witnesses to the meeting. What the Government did in passing this Bill to stop Airbnb and short-term lets and insisting on only allowing long-term lets is very regrettable. That is where the problem started for many of the people sitting behind me.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Challenges Facing Providers of Tourist Accommodation in Ireland: Discussion (29 Mar 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...? We are only a week on from St. Patrick's Day and there is a scarcity of beds in Killarney. At the same time, there is a move to limit Airbnb operators and other short-term lets and to say they must let long term. How can that be fair?