Results 1-20 of 48 for kerry speaker:Seán Kyne

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2024)

Seán Kyne: ...delegation to the Houses. I also acknowledge the sad passing of Michael O'Regan, who was a good friend to people in Leinster House and a very pleasant individual who certainly did not forget his Kerry roots. He was a proud Kerryman who was involved in the Kerry Association here in Dublin. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. Like the previous speaker, I raise issues relating to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: ...CAMHS and adult mental health services to allow people aged up to the age of 25 to be treated and seen by CAMHS. I would like to have a debate on this. We have seen the reports on CAMHS in south Kerry, which came about because of a whistleblower. There is a need to enhance governance and have better leadership of CAMHS teams and to make changes to the Mental Health Act to allow the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: ...health. Each community healthcare organisation, CHO, must have a clinical director for CAMHS and a team clinical co-ordinator. The issues of leadership and governance were at stake in the south Kerry CAMHS report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: I asked about the Maskey report in respect of south Kerry CAMHS. Have other CAMHS areas upped their game since then?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...to a protocol on engagement and compensation regarding greenways. That has been a game-changer in terms of allowing this process to go forward. More important than that is the result of the south Kerry greenway decision, which was seen as a template for other local authorities. I have raised this issue on numerous occasions. Those two pieces: the result of the court case in south Kerry...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...but Meath County Council has now overtaken us but is still in the relegation zone. Galway County Council is way behind comparable counties of the same size such as Mayo, Donegal, Tipperary and Kerry. This situation has been known for some time and the Department officials have been very aware of same. Many promises have been made at Department and ministerial levels to rectify the...

Seanad: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: ..., the impact is especially acute in the hospitality sector. We recognise the reach that the hospitality sector has across the entire country but, in particular, in certain areas of the, including Kerry, where my colleague, Deputy Griffin, has been very strong on this issue. I acknowledge this morning's decision to extend the 9% VAT rate for a further six months. We are still getting...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Mar 2022)

Seán Kyne: .... It would be a game changer for them to be able to cycle to work or university along the greenway, in through Galway city and Fisheries Field. I urge people to get involved. We saw the south Kerry case in the Supreme Court two weeks ago. It was a game changer in ensuring that greenways are viewed as critical infrastructure and can be treated in the same way as road projects with...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Feb 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...Dublin Road and elsewhere. A number of greenway projects are also included in the strategy but are in limbo in terms of final consent. Hopefully, yesterday's Supreme Court decision on the south Kerry greenway will act as a driver and incentive to develop and allow planning applications to be lodged for greenways across the country, including from Galway city to Moycullen and Oughterard....

Seanad: Broadband Roll-out: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...that somebody has to be first to be connected and, unfortunately, somebody has to be last, when connecting every house in the country. It was the same for electrification. The Black Valley in Kerry was the last place to be electrified. A place in Ireland will be the last to be connected, but the important point is that all places will be connected. The work that is going on, such as...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2021)

Seán Kyne: ..., Waterford and indeed parts of Limerick and Westmeath or numerous other greenways in the planning process. In October this year, the High Court upheld the planning permission for the south Kerry greenway project, which I have mentioned before, not particularly because it is in south Kerry but because it is deemed to be a test case for other local authorities regarding the development of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Nov 2021)

Seán Kyne: ...more than 400 remote working hubs across the country. There is still an opportunity for more of these hubs to be part of the connectedhubs.ieprogramme, which is accessible. If a person is going to Connemara or Kerry for a holiday, for example, and perhaps needs to find space to partake in a vital meeting - even though he or she should be relaxing on the holiday, this is not always...

Seanad: Public Transport: Motion (3 Nov 2021)

Seán Kyne: .... We need to speed up the process of that consultation, engagement with landowners, lodging a planning application and going through the process. I welcome the decisions made in respect of the south Kerry greenway. The latter was very important as a test case for all local authorities across the country in terms of the provision of greenways and ensuring that they are treated in the...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (16 Jul 2021)

Seán Kyne: ...Council or any other local authority would get less than it might need to run its services. Galway, for instance, is way down the pecking order in comparison with counties of a similar size like Mayo, Kerry, Tipperary and Donegal. It is way down the scale in terms of the number of staff working in the local authority and the funding per head of population. We have an array of issues,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Seán Kyne: I will raise the issue of the south Kerry greenway, which I am sure is an issue close to the Cathaoirleach's heart. The reason I raise it is to welcome yesterday's High Court decision decreeing that the planning permission granted by An Bord Pleanála to Kerry County Council is valid and upholding the council's decision. It is important because this was viewed as a test case for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2021)

Seán Kyne: ...over the weekend and those whose jobs are under threat within the aviation sector. I welcome that emergency seven-month contracts can issue where a new operator can be found for PSO services to Kerry and Donegal. It seems like a different world when in late 2019 the then Government of which I was a member was able to buy the Connemara airport for the PSO service to the Aran Islands....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authorities (25 May 2021)

Seán Kyne: .... Compared with Mayo, which has large towns such as Castlebar, Westport and Ballina, we have much smaller towns with a lower rates base. Similarly, Shannon and Ennis in Clare are drivers while in Kerry, Killarney and Tralee are good drivers of the economy and provide a good rates base. The budget of Galway County Council in 2021 is €136.5 million. In comparison, Mayo's budget is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authorities (25 May 2021)

Seán Kyne: ...an additional €2.2 million by increasing the LPT, I return to the comparisons. Galway County Council's budget for this year is €136 million, while the budgets of the local authorities in Mayo, Kerry and Tipperary are €159 million, €168 million and €185 million, respectively. An additional €2 million, while welcome, would not fill those gaps....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2021)

Seán Kyne: ...money from it, the legal profession and environmental experts. Meanwhile, communities are frustrated by delays lasting in some cases years in the provision of key infrastructure for homes. The south Kerry greenway is a project in point and a test case for greenways across the country. The old Galway city bypass went through the Irish courts before ending up in the European Court of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Dec 2020)

Seán Kyne: ...as the great western railway in the Deputy Leader's county, the Mullingar to Athlone greenway and the Clifden to Recess greenway. The recent An Bord Pleanála decision on the greenway in south Kerry has been welcome and it was regarded as a test case by many local authorities that have projects that are stuck in limbo across the country. I welcome that decision and I regret that...