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Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Martin Kenny: Housing is an issue across every part of the State. We will go through the crisis in Dublin as well as the crises in every other city and in urban areas. I represent a rural constituency and yet these same problems exist in it. One of the main reasons for this is the recovery for landlords - unfortunately, one of the biggest recoveries we have experienced in this State. The only people...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Administration (14 Apr 2016)

Martin Kenny: 179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of unused funds from the 2015 National Reserve and from the clawback arising from the sale of entitlements without land in 2016 for the National Reserve to deal with the demand from young farmers in 2016; if this amount will be sufficient to meet the demands of young farmers in 2016; and if he will make a statement on...

Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Martin Kenny: I add my voice to the voices of those who spoke about what happened in Brussels this morning. As the Minister stated, it is alarming that the death toll has risen greatly. To return to the issue of the EU agriculture Ministers meeting, to tell the truth, that seems a long way off from the place I come from, namely, the west, and especially the constituency of Sligo-Leitrim. Many farmers...

Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)

Martin Kenny: As this is my first time to address the House, I congratulate the Ceann Comhairle on his election. He was the only Member who won an election today. All Members have great expectations. Mine is that, in a short time, I would be able to hold various Ministers to account. I know there will be a caretaker arrangement for the next period. However, between now and a Government being...