The group is saying that payment rules are going to be affected by these new GAEC 2 proposals. I am asking the Ministers and the Taoiseach to consider this. It looks as though this proposal came from the Greens. I want it to be stopped.

Will you stop people from cutting turf, Minister?

My time is very short but I want to thank all the gardaí for the great work they are doing. Criminals and vandals are more daring now than they were in the past and have many more ways of doing harm and blackguarding. The area I want to focus on is both sides of the Kenmare river and Kenmare Bay, where Garda stations have been closed down. All the way from Kenmare down to Cahersiveen and back to Ardgroom and Lauragh and all that side as far as the boundary with Cork, numbers have been reduced. We have many small pi…

I am glad to have the chance to raise these important issues. I wish to discuss and deal with the issues preventing homeowners from renting out vacant houses and the tax that people have to pay. People must pay up to 50% in tax when they rent a private house or in respect of a house that they want to rent out. Fifty percent of €800 is only €400, and it is not worthwhile for many people who I know with these types of houses. The other thing is that people cannot get tenants out when they want to. That is happening a…

That is only one road.

I thank the Minister of State very much for his reply. I know all the reasons he has given for why a tenant would have to leave, but in practice it is very hard to get that through and to get the house back. As I said about the road from Kenmare through Kilgarvan and down to within five miles of Killarney, it is just one road and I believe there are hundreds of houses, even in Killarney itself, that are idle. They are in Marian Terrace, St. Brendan’s Terrace and all those sorts of places in Killarney town and it is…

I wish to ask the Taoiseach about a problem we have with two estates in Aghadoe in Killarney. These are the Old Killarney Village and the Birch Hill estate. Their treatment plants are out of date and no longer suitable. For many years, I have been requesting in the House that they be connected to the public sewer. On two occasions, funding has been made available in this regard. Going back a number of years ago, €400,000 was provided. Last year, the then Minister, Deputy O'Brien, committed €998,000. There is €300,0…

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I commiserate with the people of Ukraine who have gone through so much and I welcome the visitors to the House today. I do not know whether they are still here. They are welcome to the Dáil to see what the people here are saying and thinking about. I am glad that Ireland has done its best for the Ukrainian people. Hotels provided accommodation and all the necessary facilities for the Ukrainian people. We have to especially thank the schools and teachers who at very short notice accepted children into their schools …

I left one thing out. When we talk about means testing of carers and other means testing, we have to be fair.

I wish the new Minister and Ministers of State across the way all the very best in their work. We will try to work the best we can with them. There are a lot of elderly people in Kerry presenting with health issues. This is what we are talking about. A lot of people, young and old are not experiencing the health service they would expect. There is one thing that is driving people absolutely stone mad - I would appreciate it if the Minister and Minister of State would listen to me for one second - and that is elderl…

I wish to raise the issue of many parents in County Kerry whose children have been diagnosed with autism, ADHD and other intellectual disabilities. While the numbers continue to increase, the services are not readily available. Waiting times for assessments and diagnoses are taking way too long. There is a huge shortage of speech and language therapists. Many parents have to go down the route of private assessments for their children. This is a huge burden on families and many cannot afford it. Applications for dom…

That is not fair for people in County Kerry.

I am glad to have the opportunity to raise the very serious plight of people in Knight’s Mountain, Knocknagashel and Lyracrumpane, which are beside one another. They have very little water. In fact, their wells are now obsolete because the water is undrinkable. When you pour the water out of them, it is like a cup of coffee. It has gone brown and they just cannot drink it anymore. There are up to 18 houses involved. The cost of the group extension is too prohibitive. In this instance, where the supply line is 4.8 k…

I hear the Minister of State say that Uisce Éireann has not heard anything and knows nothing about this. I did mention to him that it is Kerry County Council that has the responsibility in the first place for group water schemes and to administer those schemes. I am kind of amazed that Kerry County Council has not liaised with Uisce Éireann in this case, but the facts are as I have outlined to the Minister of State very clearly. These people, especially those in Lyracrumpane, applied back in 2022 and they failed to…

You would need €45,000. It is no good.

I thank the Minister of State. I do appreciate that he will see after west Cork, but I am asking him now, seeing as he is in the position, to see after Knocknagashel, Knight's Mountain and other places in Gneevgullia, and Crag, in Castleisland. I am depending on him to see after those places now for me.

I am delighted by the news today that the Government is planning to exempt cabin-style units at the back of family homes. This is a wonderful idea. My brother, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae, and I have been looking for this for many years never more so than now. It is a great idea and I thank the Government. This is a real attempt at housing people that can happen very quickly. In tandem with that, many people are being denied planning permission in respect of sites at their parents' homes. They are being deprived becau…

What about the 1 million houses? Where have they gone?

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