Results 261-280 of 3,881 for speaker:Martin Kenny

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: This is an issue across the entire State. I am sure every one of us who is out canvassing or anywhere else will have seen the situation in local authority houses and other houses. There are many HAP tenants in privately-owned houses that are in very damp and very poor condition. The tenants have serious respiratory and other problems as a consequence. I recently visited a HAP tenant in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister for his presentation. I read it this morning and to be honest I found very little in it beyond indications that a lot of consultations are happening and reports are being written, with promises of where they are going to be. Yet we heard on the radio from the Environmental Protection Agency that we are not going to meet our targets and are going to be well behind. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Most farmers do not consider forestry to be farming.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: They consider it retirement. That is the problem we have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: While I accept the Minister's ambition on all of that, farmers in Longford, Leitrim or Mayo listening to him today are not going to decide to grow grass to feed the biodigester because of what they have heard. They do not have the clarity as to what is going to come down the road and that is the difficulty we have. Apart from that, I think that is something on which I would appeal to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I wanted to focus a little bit on transport for a moment because it is the second biggest area that we need to try to tackle or sort out. The Minister mentioned rail, and particularly rail freight. While I have heard all of this before, again I do not see the concrete proposals in place to deliver on that. I have raised the western rail corridor with the Minister on numerous occasions....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Sligo?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: No freight will go on a greenway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: It is open to it, I believe.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: 106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline on the roll-out of the national broadband, including a breakdown of current and capital spend. [23756/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Cybersecurity Policy (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: 107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a timeline on improvement works to cybersecurity infrastructure, including a breakdown of current and capital spend. [23757/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline on the progression of the Navan rail line; and the most up-to-date estimated cost, including a breakdown of current and capital spend. [23753/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: 144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline on the progression of the western rail corridor; and the most up-to-date estimated cost, including a breakdown of current and capital spend. [23754/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: 145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline on the upgrade works for the N2/A5; and the most up-to-date estimated cost, including a breakdown of current and capital spend (details supplied). [23755/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (28 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the clash between State exams in Ireland and the equivalent exams in Ukraine; the number of students affected by the clash; and the contingency plan in place for students wishing to sit both exams. [23759/24]

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this motion. It is an issue in every constituency in the country and it is certainly an issue in my constituency in regard to the school dental service. Parents contact me regularly where their children have gone into sixth class and have never seen a dentist and go on to secondary school without seeing a dentist. This is happening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: The reason we invited ComReg and Eir to appear before the committee is the outfall from the recent court case, which the witnesses will be aware of. I wish to look at a few issues it shone a light on. The case, and a lot of ComReg's enforcement, is really about complaints mechanisms and whether they are effective and efficient. The next part of that, which is what people really want, is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: On that point, I have come across situations where a provider - normally it is Eir but it may be another provider - goes into a town and provides fibre optic broadband to the houses, all of which have got-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Yes, where the trunking is in place. That only came into place in the mid-1990s, when it became compulsory under building regulations to put in trunking so that cables could be fed into the houses. Houses that are a little older than that do not have it. In order to go into a housing estate where the houses do not have that trunking, it is necessary to dig up the garden and the footpath to...