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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fishing Communities (13 Jul 2023)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister. I appreciate these matters have to be given due consideration, but the position for island dwellers is that their opportunities for making a livelihood are limited because they live on an island in the sea and do not have many of the opportunities people living in any other part of the country have. They have a tradition of using small boats and they have an...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Martin Kenny: This motion is about trying to help a sector that we all know is in deep trouble. At the gates of Leinster House last week, I met many managers and owners of nursing homes. They did not come here because there were minor problems. They came here because there were serious issues, which have resulted in many smaller nursing homes being unable to survive on the payments known as the fair...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Tolls (22 Jun 2023)

Martin Kenny: I take the point that the direction of travel of everything in the country is going up and it is related to the CPI. However, as inflation is going up in the country, the reality is that some things are pushing it up further than it needs to go and this issue with the toll roads is an example. To link the tolls to inflation does not make sense. I doubt the staff working in the toll...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: A Common Vision for Cybersecurity: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. The big danger people fear is a similar situation to what happened with the HSE. We have vulnerabilities in our big infrastructure companies that can be dangerous. We also have scams that affect individuals. While all of these dangers exist the witnesses have all pointed out in their contributions that there are also great opportunities to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Sectoral Emissions Ceiling: Minister for Transport (17 May 2023)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister and his staff for coming in. It will be a mammoth task to reduce emissions by 50%. I will get into a few of the small details. It is my understanding that more densely populated areas are the ones in which we would be able to have most impact because we can put public transport in place that is not going long distances and is moving rapidly through the area. As the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...through it all is development. All of the ports require more development. Outside of Dublin, which has specific issues and has a master plan in place, all the other ports have mentioned how the work of the offshore wind industry will be facilitated, maintained and worked into the future. Certainly what we hear everywhere is that there is huge potential there. I would like to get their...

Transport Support Schemes for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2023)

Martin Kenny: I commend the Regional Group on introducing this motion. It is now ten years since the mobility grant was taken away. Successive Governments have continued to promise that it will be replaced and that something would be done, but nothing has happened. I welcome the Minister's reference to ambition to deliver on this, but unfortunately ambition has been very lacking among his predecessors....

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Martin Kenny: What happened 25 years ago when the Good Friday Agreement brought all sides together to work out a better future was a landmark for this island. I certainly was much younger then but, like many others, I was running around at the time trying to convince people of the merits of the agreement and explain what it was about. I also tried to explain how we could advance the possibility of a...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Martin Kenny: The Minister mentioned several times that his is the party that wants to ensure that people have home ownership and that Sinn Féin is against home ownership. I give an example from my constituency of a separated woman with two children living in a rented house. Her rent increased by almost a third this time last year. Obviously, she can hardly afford it as it is. She has now received...

Irish Sheep Sector: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Martin Kenny: We are all aware that the sheep sector has been in crisis for many years. This does not come as a surprise. Sheep farmers, mainly those in mountainous areas and with poorer land, much of it in the west, including in my constituency, are finding it very difficult to manage and have been for quite some time. The sheep welfare payment in place is not adequate to deal with the situation....

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...did in removing the eviction ban. For people across this country, this has been a terrible calamity. While it is much worse in the vast urban areas of Dublin and other cities, even rural areas like my constituency are being impacted by the ban's removal. A video is going around of an eviction in Bundoran in recent weeks. A family of eight were thrown out of their house. That is what...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (16 Feb 2023)

Martin Kenny: We are all conscious of that and we all want to pay tribute to the work members of An Garda Síochána do on a daily basis. A lot of this is down to that stress. I spoke to members of the service who told me that sometimes a call comes when there is an incident somewhere and they know there is going to be if not danger then certainly stress involved in that incident. They know they...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Courts Service (16 Feb 2023)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister and look forward to that report from the Courts Service. We are all aware that people across Ireland are becoming more conscious of the scourge of domestic and gender-based violence, intimate partner violence, harassment and coercive control. As a society we are getting better at identifying people in that situation and encouraging them to seek support and come forward....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...ordáin has said. I met with Caron McCaffrey, the head of the Irish Prison Service, on this issue, along with her colleague Fergal Black. One of the issues that struck me was that the point of prison has to be to ensure we build a better society and people do not go back into the cycle of reoffending, going in and out of prison. That seems to be a pattern of a large segment of the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Kenny: I hope that the report tells him what everybody has told us. Everybody, including members of the Judiciary, the legal profession and the Courts Service, have told us that there is a crisis situation in all of the court systems, and particularly an acute situation in family law in the District Courts and Circuit Courts. That situation is primarily due to not having enough judges to deal with...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...located here. This is their home address, whether or not all their activity happens here. This puts a huge onus on the State, in a European context and probably in a worldwide context as well, to act appropriately on this issue. My understanding is that some good work has been done in this respect. The Data Protection Commission has come under criticism in the past for its slow and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...our guests for their contributions. I thought initially that this legislation would deal with difficulties with the licensing laws, of which there are many. There are difficulties with regard to the number of times that a publican has to go to court to get an extension, for example and I thought that was what this legislation would address. As has been alluded to, there are also issues...

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) (Pets) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2022)

Martin Kenny: I extend my condolence to the loved ones of Private Seán Rooney, who tragically lost his life in the Lebanon. Ireland woke up this morning to hear this sad news. I think also of his colleague, Trooper Shane Kearney. We wish him a speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with their families and their colleagues in the Defence Forces. It reminds us all of the dangers that are out there on...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (15 Dec 2022)

Martin Kenny: I acknowledge the Minister of State's work in respect of this. My frustration is that on the day - the Minister of State is right to say we had a very good meeting, there was energy in the room and we felt that everybody was on the same page - I detected a little hesitancy on the part of some of the HSE officials to use Cloonamahon. I did not know or understand why. I still do not...

Report on Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment: Motion [Private Members] (1 Dec 2022)

Martin Kenny: I was up in my room listening to the debate and I had not realised this report was being debated. I have come down to make the case for something I have a lot of experience in. Many years ago I was involved in an eco-building cross-Border project in Leitrim, west Cavan and Fermanagh. We went around to see what materials we would use and how we would do it. We went to the Czech Republic...