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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Agriculture Industry (26 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: I appreciate and understand all of that, but a particular situation obtains in many parts of the country at present. Many farmers have been in contact with me - I am sure they have been in contact with the Minister's office - regarding the difficulties they have had in getting their slurry out because of the particularly wet summer and as a result of the situation they find themselves in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (26 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: 55. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the engagement his commission on generational renewal in farming has undertaken since its establishment. [38403/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (26 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: I want to get an update from the Minister in regard to the engagement he has had regarding the commission on generational renewal in farming that, I understand, he has established or is about to establish. We all recognise that many farmers are ageing and are looking around to see who will take over their farms and what will happen. There was talk recently of some kind of a retirement...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: 53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an update on the agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, payments, including the number of farms which have been scored so far. [38401/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: This is my first opportunity to be here for Question Time as my party's spokesperson on agriculture. I am delighted to hold the brief. The way was well ploughed by Deputy Kerrane, who was spokesperson before me. I am delighted to be here this morning. I want to ask the Minister about ACRES payments and get information on the number of farmers who have been scored for the scheme so far,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: I appreciate that. I understand that the reason for the interim payment was because of the delays and difficulties, but I come back to the point that very many farmers do not know what scores they were awarded. They have seven to ten plots but they do not know the score for each plot. As the Minister is aware, they also have an opportunity to enhance those scores through non-productive...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: Does the Minister think it was fair to write to farmers demanding money back when they still did not know their score? That is one of the big gripes that many farmers have. They got the interim payment and the next contact they had from the Department was not to tell them where they stood or what the future would hold, but a letter demanding some of that money back - in some cases up to 80%...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: What about the second year?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: Reading the transcript of the meeting on pre-legislative scrutiny, I noted the number of people that a farmer can bring to an appeal. Farmers will often bring their agricultural adviser or planner and one of us cowboys could ride in too. Is the number limited or set in the legislation? Is that what is intended here?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: A farmer can bring along anyone with expertise or who can be of assistance.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: That is perfect.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: If the Minister was listening to "Morning Ireland" this morning, he will have heard a constituent of mine, Jennifer, speak about what her ten-year-old child, Maggie, is going through. Maggie suffered from cancer as an infant and recovered from it. She suffers from an intellectual disability. She had been using CAMHS and was finding it difficult and hard to manage. Over a year ago, or...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: I commend the Regional Group on giving us the opportunity to discuss this. The issue of carer's allowance is something on which every TD and Member of Parliament has been inundated, probably for years now, by families with people with disabilities, or those with a relative who has an operation, comes home from hospital and needs constant care. As was said, most of the people doing the care...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (9 Sep 2024)

Martin Kenny: 249.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will carry out a review of the Swinford to Sligo 922 bus route following the withdrawal of service during Covid; if the NTA will conduct an impact assessment on the effects of withdrawing the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34990/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (23 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: 2210.To ask the Minister for Health if fenfluramine is covered by the HSE for reimbursement for the treatment of Dravet’s syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31912/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (23 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: 2211.To ask the Minister for Health if it is possible for Sligo University Hospital to cover the cost of fenfluramine for treatment of Dravet’s syndrome in a local nine-year old child where the drug is not covered by the HSE for reimbursement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31913/24]

Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: This legislation is obviously a welcome advance. Farming has become a part-time occupation for many. Farmers need to have a job along with it in order to have an income. Central to that is the architecture we have around payments, assistance and having schemes in place to assist farmers. Very often, because of weather and the nature and topography of the land that people are trying to...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Capital Expenditure Programme (11 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: 465. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide the actual spend per county of the local improvement scheme between 2018 and 2023, in tabular form. [30753/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Capital Expenditure Programme (11 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: 466. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide the budget for the local improvement scheme from 2018 to 2023, and where there was a discrepancy between budgeted spend versus actual spend, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30754/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Road Projects (11 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: 467. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of roads per county or local authority which applied for works to be carried out under the local improvement scheme, in tabular form. [30755/24]