Danny Healy-Rae

I thank the people of Kerry for sending me up here again for a third time. I thank each and every one of them. They all know who we are, my family and all the people who work for me. I thank them all so much for depending on me and sending me up here again to talk for the people of Kerry and to represent Kerry, and I thank them for electing Michael, my brother. A Chathaoirligh, do not tell them I…

-----up at Cordal and called on all those places. They were still there inside-----

Thank you very much, a Chathaoirligh, but my time was eaten into-----

All right. Thanks very much.

I hope they do not find out I am here; they might stop me talking. It is very important to debate this issue here tonight. Many people in Kerry have been perished from the cold when the houses that were basically heated by electricity lost power. Can the Minister of State imagine young families trying to heat a bottle for babies? Simple things became an awful ordeal. Water pumps did not work beca…

I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I join him in thanking all the emergency services and all the people who went out in the dark and wet, night and day, trying to get the electricity going again and all the people in the health services, especially those who visited old people - home helps, etc. - for all the great work they did. The Minister of State said there are no regulations preve…

The Department is asking the local authority to take out the chimneys.

They are not doing it off their own bat, surely.

Will the Minister of State tell us why it is happening in Kilgarvan so, and why they could not find that out-----

My questions have not been answered.

Ye voted for the carbon tax.

I congratulate Deputy Verona Murphy on being elevated to the high office of Ceann Comhairle and wish her well. I thank the outgoing Ceann Comhairle, Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl, for his dedication and the fair play he afforded to everyone in this Chamber, because he did. We will remember him. He changed many things that applied under previous Cinn Chomhairle for the better. I thank the people of Kerr…