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-----on the pier myself.

I oppose it.

I am glad to have the opportunity to oppose this proposal by Deputy Coppinger. She said she was amazed that anyone would stand up and talk against this proposal. I have to tell you, a Cheann Comhairle, that from every corner of Kerry, people have rung and sent emails and all kinds of messages to ensure that we stop this at the start. All of us living in rural parts of Ireland know the damage that the fox has done and is doing. The numbers have increased to a massive amount altogether. One of my sons had lambs. He a…

I am calling a vote now.

I am glad to get the opportunity to welcome Shane's family, Jim and Lucia and their girls. I am sorry they had to go through so much to get recognition for what happened on that fateful night. I commiserate with them on the loss of their son and thank them for doing so much to try to protect his name and to ensure he got the proper recognition he and they deserve. I thank the Minister for doing the honourable thing this evening and the Government for making the apology that is so deserved. It matters because a terr…

I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about this matter here again this evening. It is a terrible situation. This war really needs to end. I do not know how we can influence that happening, but we need to send a strong message from this Parliament. We are a very small country. We cannot do anything physically to stop or prevent the war, but we need to send a strong message that we do not approve of what is happening now. It is very well reported. We see evening after evening little children holding out bowls to …

I thank Deputy Michael Collins and his group for giving us the chance to talk about this worthy motion this morning. I support everything that has been said. It should be every politician's ambition to allow elderly people to stay and be seen after in their own homes for as long as possible. That is not happening in Kerry. At the present time, you can qualify to get home help or a home care package but no one arrives because there are no people to provide that home help. That is very serious. I am sure the Governme…

All right. I appeal to the Ministers to see after the elderly people, because they brought us to where we are. They fought to ensure that Ireland was a better place. They did their best. We must see after them but we are not doing it.

I am glad to get the opportunity to say a few words about the mayhem that is taking place, in our time, in another country. I know that Ireland can do very little but we need to stand up and be counted. What is happening is barbaric. We see children, old people and women being starved. People are being starved in this day and age. In case someone does not know about it, I know what hunger is from my grandfather and grandmother telling me of when people were hungry here, what they went through and what they had to g…

I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this most important matter. First, I welcome Cara and her dad here again today. It is very sad that they have to come here again after being here so many times before. This is still a desperate situation where young families and young parents, when they find that their child is someway not performing to their liking and want to get them assessed, have to wait so long for an assessment, and then to get the therapies they need thereafter. It is so hard, especially in Kerry.…

I want to discuss the implications of the new good agricultural and environmental condition of land rules, GAEC 2. Farmers in many parts of County Kerry will be affected. Farmers have been advised that they must recognise these new rules and regulations as part of applying for their basic income support scheme, BISS, payments and other CAP payments on 15 May, which is tomorrow. That is the first issue I want to raise concern about. There has been so little time. The letters only came out last week. There are concer…

I thank the Minister for his response. I ask him to give me a clear understanding as to whether farmers who have lands in Lyracrumpane, Glencar, Cahirsiveen, Kilcummin, Gneevgullia, Scartaglin and all those places can cut turf where they have parcels of peat? That is a straight question and I want a straight answer to it. Farmers are very concerned about the time it will take to get their payments and have this sorted out and gone through properly because they doubt the correctness of some of the maps that some of …

Do farmers have to leave out the patch where they are cutting turf?

I raised this matter by way of question to the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, about a week ago and I am still very concerned about it. Today, I have six new people who are looking to get their tests brought forward. Two of them will not get their tests for seven months. This is what they have been told. I will give an example. One of them is a young fella from Cahersiveen who can do his apprenticeship in Tralee if he can get there. He has work to do at home in the evenings and he would dearly love to do this app…

This is an emergency. I am asking the Government to do something, please. This happened last year-----

-----and the summer holidays will take a lot of the testers away and the test wait time will get longer.

I am glad to get this opportunity. Whenever we get funding in Kerry for roads, we are very grateful and appreciative. We have got great value for money over the years, but there are works going on between the nugget and the gap cross going out of Killarney on the way around the Ring of Kerry, where many tourists and buses go daily and at night time. In fact, there is fierce traffic on this road. The works going on there now are for what is called active travel, which means the carriageway has been reduced to 20 ft …

It is, yes.

This was the widest part of the road around the Ring of Kerry. We are looking to widen the rest of it and what did they do? They narrowed the good bit of road that we had.