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Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is totally incorrect.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister of State is blaming the planners in Kerry County Council.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The majority in Kerry County Council proposed a smaller radius around the towns.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The regulator that the Government is in charge of directed the county manager to increase the radius. The Minister of State is blaming the planners and doing nothing to regulate this.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: He is not being honest. This man is getting away with this because he is not being accurate.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Well, he did not answer it properly.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: He is blaming the planners in Kerry County Council. He is wrong about that.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: He did.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I was always brought up to mean what I say or say what I mean. There are so many contradictions in these amendments proposed by Members. Some of the amendments are good and some are terrible. Both kinds have been tabled by the same Members. We have been promised for years now, since I was elected in 2016, that the planning framework guidelines would be put in place to help planning and...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: You are excluding them. When they did formulate their plan they were overridden by the planning regulator.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I thought I asked a very clear question. I asked if the Minister will do something about the wrong being delivered upon people in rural areas. They are being treated the same as the people the Government wants to stop coming out of towns and cities to rural areas. These people were brought up in these places all of their lives. My time is short; I have only two minutes available. When...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I will speak to some of the amendments in this grouping. Like Deputy Mattie McGrath, I am concerned. When changes are made to the national planning framework, they must be discussed in this House. Recognition has to be given to the elected councillors in our local authorities. We have had the scenario where councillors made certain unanimous decisions which were refused by the Planning...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The young fella was raised all his life on the same acre. The father has a half-acre now and so has the son. This designation is preventing him getting planning permission. I left out a very important part. This young fella wanted to build a house next door to his father because his father has got bad medical information concerning his future and he wanted the son and his wife to be...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I commend the Regional Group on this very important motion. I have spoken about this issue several times in this House. It will impact on rural counties along the western seaboard and especially Kerry. Much of the land in south Kerry is already taken up by biodiversity but farmers have nonetheless improved their holdings and little fields. I did break my leg in a drain trying to improve a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am raising a genuine concern.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: These people will build the houses-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ----- if they get planning permission.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am sorry.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to welcome more than 45 women from all over County Kerry, especially east Kerry areas like Barraduff, Headfort, Glenflesk and Rathmore. These women have created homes and reared fine sons and daughters. However, many of their sons and daughters are forced to leave Kerry for places like Australia, Dubai and Canada. These are 28- to 32-year-olds who cannot afford to purchase a house....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Large tracts of land far beyond Killarney, Killorglin and Kenmare are being excluded from these people who will build a house themselves.