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Housing Strategy: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: I am sharing with Deputy Ellis. It seems, in fairness, that the Minister made some effort to tackle the housing crisis in this plan. While a strategic plan must be forward-looking and take a long-term view, we must realise that we are in the middle of a crisis and urgent action is needed for the thousands of homeless people around the country. What will this plan do for the person...

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: It is expensive.

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: The ability for people to buy and own their own homes as a general principle is something that I very much support. Societies in which people have home ownership are generally wealthier societies. In many other countries in which people rent for all their lives, much of the money a person makes in his or her lifetime is given to a landlord and is funnelled to the top of that society. There...

Topical Issue Debate: Fish Farming (20 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: May I make a brief point?

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: The programme for Government includes a promise to increase the number of occupational and speech therapists. In fact, the promise is to increase the number of speech therapists by 25%, bringing the number to over 1,100. I raised this matter a couple of weeks ago with the Tánaiste. On that occasion, she informed me that a lot of money was being put into it and it was hoped to make...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Fisheries Fund (19 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: 753. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of the EU contribution to his Department under the European Fisheries Fund. [22636/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Fisheries Fund (19 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: 754. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of unused European Fisheries Fund moneys by his Department. [22637/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (19 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: 755. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for details of any land-based RAS fish farms which were funded by the European Fisheries Fund in any member state. [22638/16]

Topical Issue Debate: Maritime Training (13 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: If a meeting has occurred between the Department and the two organisations, they have buried the hatchet to some extent at least and got things moving along, then that is very good news and a positive outcome. The issue, which has been going on for a considerable length of time between these two organisations, needs to be resolved permanently. I am sure that the Minister and his staff will...

Topical Issue Debate: Maritime Training (13 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: More than 400 people who have been trained by the National Maritime College of Ireland over the past year or so now find that they are not being certified. If this situation is not resolved, all of these people will be out of work from 1 January 2017. They will be unable to take up positions in Ireland or anywhere else in the world. It is intolerable that these people cannot be employed on...

Priority Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: 24. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action he will take, in view of the High Court judgment of 2 June 2016, which found that his Department’s procedures in conducting farm inspections were lacking by not providing a control report, not applying the maxim of audi alteram partem, or fulfilling the onus on the decision-maker to comply with regulation, to give...

Priority Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: This case went through the courts on 2 June. The farmer in question lodged an appeal to the Department. When officials came out to his farm, they did not fulfil the regulations set out by the Department and the EU. If the shoe was on the other foot and the farmer had not fulfilled the regulations, we know what would have happened. As the court said, this farmer has to be compensated for...

Priority Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (13 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: It is disappointing that we are in this position. The judge stated, "The lack of respect for fair procedures was extended to the review when other penalties were imposed without any opportunity given to the applicant to make submissions in advance of the imposition of an extra penalty." In other words, when the appeal was lodged and the officials visited the farmer to conduct the review,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Identification Schemes (13 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: 41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if electronic tagging will be introduced for all lambs as part of the proposed new sheep scheme. [21287/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Procurement Contracts (13 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: 49. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the tendering process in his Department for the supply of electronic identification tags for bovine animals involves a technical specification for only one kind of anti-tamper device which is patented to one company; if the process is going ahead again in 2016 in these circumstances; the reason for postponement of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (13 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: 58. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will include a rolling reference year for young farmers and commonage farmers in the proposed sheep scheme to assist young farmers who are trying to build up their flock and also commonage farmers who may have to adjust their flock numbers due to new commonage framework plans. [21285/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Eligibility (13 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: 68. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if will he amend the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, application criteria for hill farmers who own their own parcel of land due to the fact under the current measures for accessing GLAS these farmers are prohibited because the land is owned and it is not eligible for any other schemes. [21286/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Policy (12 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: 105. To ask the Minister for Health the research that is being conducted specifically on universal health care; if he is aware of research being undertaken by other groups outside his Department on universal health care; if he will bring these strands together to ensure co-operation, information exchange and economies of scale [20936/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Policy (12 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: 106. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 2 June 2016, if the research being undertaken by his Department and the Economic and Social Research Institute three-year programme on health reform will be available to the new joint Oireachtas committee that has been established to develop cross-party consensus on the future of the health service over ten...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Service Staff (12 Jul 2016)

Martin Kenny: 303. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason firemen are not being recruited in Bundoran and Ballyshannon, County Donegal. [20556/16]