Results 1-20 of 41 for going forward speaker:Martin Heydon

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Heydon: ...by the weather over recent months. In the past few weeks I visited farms in my own county of Kildare, out west in Galway and around the south east of the country. Last Friday I stood in a farm in Gowran, County Kilkenny, which has the best of land. We stood in pools of water, such is the saturated nature of the soil. I heard and saw at first hand the difficulties farmers have getting...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Martin Heydon: ...and enthusiasm, which are evident in her 15-minute statement. As a Deputy who was first elected to this House in 2011, the greatest charge against me from the Opposition benches, as a rural-based Government backbencher from 2011 to 2016, was that we were seeing the death of rural Ireland. Nobody is saying that any more. The change can be directly traced back to the establishment of the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Homeless Persons Supports (1 Jun 2023)

Martin Heydon: I thank Senator Boyhan for raising this important matter. Regarding his initial comments, I look forward to attending Bloom this afternoon with my ministerial colleagues. It is a great opportunity and great credit is due to Bord Bia, an organisation that we support extensively through our Department. It comes directly under my remit in the Department. Great credit is due to Bord Bia for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (9 Mar 2023)

Martin Heydon: ..., will be posted to those applicants. Farmers will have a certain number of days from the date of the approval letter to advise the Department as to whether they wish to proceed. It is all going to happen for farmers this week. Letters started to be posted yesterday and farmers will get that clarification. Unfortunately, a few are ineligible. They will be notified of that and the next...

Emissions in the Transport Sector Report: Motion (16 Jun 2022)

Martin Heydon: ...on the climate action that we have committed to. I understand that the Minister's Department is addressing many of the key themes and recommendations from the committee's report, which I will go through in turn, but I will first note some key points of progress since the publication of this report last June. In the past year, there has been strong progress on climate action. The...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Martin Heydon: I thank Members for the many and varied points they made. Senator Gavan asked a couple of specific questions. I go back to his earlier statement that he is not asking to negotiate in this room. I will not negotiate in this room; I do not have the mandate to do that. I will bring the points raised in this forum back to the Minister. I accept the points made about trust, communication,...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (21 Sep 2021)

Martin Heydon: ...subject to EU infringement proceedings at present. A negative judgement from the Court of Justice of the European Union in any such proceedings could cost the State significantly in lump sum and ongoing fines. I should also inform Deputies that serious financial implications arise from the non-implementation of the points system because, as a condition of the EU contribution to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Northern Ireland (21 Sep 2021)

Martin Heydon: ...continues to impact upon many families and communities across the island and beyond as they continue to seek truth and justice for their loved ones. It has been the consistent position of the Government that each of those families should have access to an effective investigation and to a process of justice, regardless of the perpetrator. The Stormont House Agreement, agreed by both...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Common Agricultural Policy (17 May 2021)

Martin Heydon: ...isolation. The latter has had a greater impact on farmers, however, particularly those older farmers who live on alone. Their main sources of socialisation outside of their work were, in general, going to the mart or to the pub, both of which were closed due to Covid. Even going to a sporting event, be it a GAA game or a soccer match in the local village, was out, along with mass or...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Equine Industry (26 Jan 2021)

Martin Heydon: .... That is a matter for the board of HSI. The Senators will be aware that following the recommendations of an independent review by Indecon consultants in 2018, the board of Horse Sport Ireland has been undergoing significant reorganisation. A new board is now in place and all of the Indecon recommendations have been implemented, which is very much to be welcomed. HSI is responsible for...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Martin Heydon: ...the support of the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, in the establishment of this important list. As the first Minister of State with responsibility for farm safety, I do not think this list will ever go away. It might be amended in time, but now we have established the principle of farm safety being an integral part of this budget and every budget that is brought forward. Deputy Mattie...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (30 Jun 2020)

Martin Heydon: ...the perspective of business, people's livelihoods and employment. When I hear much of the analysis and the calls for different levels of support, I am a little wary of the specific figures being put forward on what different areas of the business sector need. The truth is that as businesses reopen it is only then that we will learn what the consumer wants and how consumer patterns will...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

Martin Heydon: ..., his wife Mary Clare, and their extended family. It is an honour for him to be re-elected by the Members as Speaker of the House. It is a privilege for us in Kildare South, even if it means that we are going back to being a three-seater again for the next general election. I thank the people of the constituency for returning me to Dáil Éireann. It is an honour. It is my...

Topical Issue Debate: Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (17 Oct 2019)

Martin Heydon: ...will open up for applications again before the end of the year. I will work closely with officials in the Kildare County Council, as I have done up until now, to ensure that we put our best foot forward for a second bridge for Newbridge. This bridge meets the objectives of the national planning framework, that is, sustainable, balanced development. It ticks all of those boxes. There is...

Topical Issue Debate: Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (17 Oct 2019)

Martin Heydon: ...will open up for applications again before the end of the year. I will work closely with officials in the Kildare County Council, as I have done up until now, to ensure that we put our best foot forward for a second bridge for Newbridge. This bridge meets the objectives of the national planning framework, that is, sustainable, balanced development. It ticks all of those boxes. There is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Mar 2019)

Martin Heydon: ...Ministers from other parties before 2030. That is the nature of politics. If we look back 11 years, Ministers have changed and they will change again in the future. We should not become fixated on who is in government and whether people trust it. The issue is this committee, as an all-party group, agreeing what is the best way forward. That gives us considerable power and we should...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Schools Building Programme Delays: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

Martin Heydon: ...no doubt that the members of the committee will take all of the points made on board and try to improve the processes used in order that other principals and parents' associations will not have to go through the same experience. On the specific challenges faced by St. Paul's secondary school in Monasterevin and how the situation has continued for as long for a litany of reasons, it...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Martin Heydon: ...2040. As chairman of the Fine Gael Party, I am immensely proud of the contribution my colleagues in Fine Gael have made to it, from the Ministers sitting at Cabinet - this was very much an all-Government approach by our partnership Government - to our Fine Gael Deputies and Senators. We had many long, tortuous meetings of our parliamentary party where we discussed at great length all the...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Martin Heydon: ...not always attainable. The affordable purchase scheme will allow those people to aspire to own their own homes within the communities where they were born and raised, with all the family supports that go with that. It is really important for us in Kildare, where we have seen a very significant increase in house price pressure. I very much welcome the scheme and look forward to seeing it...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2017)

Martin Heydon: ...of that man to have his couple of pints and then drive his car home. The question has been asked, what harm is it. We have been told such people have done so for years, that we should let them go and that they will never cause an accident. There are a number of parts to this argument. Fair play to the old man who is that disciplined because I, for one, have been in situations in which...