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Taoiseach Micheál Martin subsequently apologised to Michael Healy-Rae.
The Independent TDs met with Micheál Martin today.
Cleo Murphy approached Danny Healy Rae yesterday about his comments.
The TG4 poll seems to indicate that support for the Healy Raes may be falling. Meanwhile, support for the Green candidate is at 9%
The South Kerry TD passed away on the 5 December 2014.
And Healy-Rae wasn’t impressed with the government’s response.
Some people are waiting over 20 weeks to get a date for the driving test.
The Kerry TD called Shane Ross a “waste of space” for questioning whether he was wasting a ticket.
The Taoiseach said the government will be looking with ‘laser-like detail’ at how to get value for money in the health service.
As the controversial legislation passed in the Dáil last week, TD Danny Healy-Rae shouted: “This is sad day for rural Ireland.”
The Road Traffic Amendment Bill has been before the Dáil for over a year.
The Transport Minister made the comments while calling on rural TDs to back drink-driving legislation.
The RSA estimates that “seven to eight” fatalities could be avoided by changing the law.
The Independent TD had himself been criticising Minister Simon Harris.
The Kilgarvan TD once claimed that nuclear testing caused the hole in the ozone layer.
TDs aren’t above screaming blue murder at each other from time to time.
Playboy magazine lost its founder this week with the death of Hugh Hefner.
Shane Ross on the rural-urban divide that has opened up on the drink-driving debate.
Following a meeting with the RSA and road traffic victim support groups today, Shane Ross published his new drink-driving bill.
A new bill sponsored by Minister for Transport Shane Ross would see mandatory bans implemented for all drink drivers.
St. Finian’s Hospital in Killarney has been lying idle since 2012.
Danny Healy-Rae claimed that people drinking three glasses of Guinness have never caused a fatality.
Eimear was injured in the incident, receiving a number of broken bones.
Shane Ross rejected claims that the plan would negatively impact rural Ireland.
Independent TD Danny Healy-Rae made the extraordinary claim during a debate on climate change last week.
Not the scientifically accepted abundance of man-made CFCs.
He was responding to claims the actor made earlier this week, when he said that those who do not believe in climate change “should not be allowed to hold public office”.
The TD made headlines earlier this year when he asserted that “God above” is in charge of the weather.
The Kerry TD went head-to-head with Professor John Sodeau of University College Cork to debate climate change.
This Greens senator and former Rainbow Warrior crew-member has a thing or two to say about the Kerry TD’s comments.
The independent TD was speaking about climate change – he says weather patterns have been fluctuating for centuries.
TDs have failed to elect a Taoiseach for the 32nd Dáil.
Danny plays a mean accordion.
Maura Healy-Rae will be co-opted on to Kerry County Council.
The brothers made history in this election, becoming the first siblings to be elected in the same constituency.