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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: The Government is proceeding with the Gambling Regulation Bill and it is due to pass through the House later today. Essentially, the difficulty is that it prohibits charities and sports clubs from advertising their draws and other vital fundraising initiatives if they have a prize fund in excess of €10,000. I am referring to organisations such as North West Hospice, which runs Ocean...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: 30. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an individual update will be provided on the investment to support the ambition for development of the Border region on roads (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18403/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide individual update on the investment in road projects (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18404/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank our guests for their statement. Following on from some of the detail in that, our focus is on the number of people who have been killed on the roads, the huge number of collisions and the tragedies for families and communities throughout the country. It was mentioned that speed is the big factor. We see that ourselves, as does everyone who travels the roads. Speeding happens,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: In addition to that, and this again comes back to young drivers, I understand the RSA is currently looking at the training of young drivers and the syllabus that is there. I recently met the Professional Driving Instructors Association. The syllabus has been the same for approximately the past decade. It needs to be reviewed and work needs to be done on it. Is there any consideration of,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: That never happens in reality.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: Without wishing to be critical but the committee has discussed a number of issues that need to be examined. The question that families of people who have been seriously injured or, unfortunately, lost their lives in tragic accidents would ask the Road Safety Authority is why we are talking about these things now and why they have not been done before this. We need to get a grip of the sense...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: I am watching the proceedings in the Chamber and will have to leave in a few minutes. I have a couple of short points to make. Deterrence theory and how more visible police enforcement improves the perception of a certainty of being detected and, therefore, being punished has the biggest impact on offending and on people breaking the rules of the road, etc, is mentioned in the RSA's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: Another issue I want to raise is people who skip getting their licences and are learner drivers forever. How is that being dealt with and what measures are being taken in respect of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: When will that be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting Driver Testers: Fórsa (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: I apologise. I had to go to the Chamber. As always happens, I was watching who was next and who I was to follow, but then the one between me and the next person did not turn up and I missed my slot. I had to come back without taking it. I thank Mr. Creaney for his opening statement which I read earlier. The issue is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting Driver Testers: Fórsa (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: Yes, I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting Driver Testers: Fórsa (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: That is very useful

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting Driver Testers: Fórsa (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: Yes, or a rehash of the same. I appreciate that. The issue has been the continual use of people on a temporary basis. Permanent contracts need to be found for people for a whole range of reasons, including to allow them to plan their lives and have permanent employment. In many instances, we find when talking about such bodies as the RSA that they continually put it back on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for the work they did on the ICCA report. Clearly, the report will be an addition to the volumes of work we have to support our reliance on science to get movement on all of this. In general, there is agreement and consensus in these Houses that the climate crisis is real, must be dealt with and worked on. We may disagree sometimes on the details but in general...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: Yesterday evening I was canvassing. I was in a new build house with an air-to-water heat system. The occupants said they are in the house two years and they cannot believe it. Their cost of heating is lower than when they lived in a rented house, although the rented house was probably not as well insulated, etc. They had a really positive story to tell but many people only hear that such...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: 486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many hectares of land farmers applied for under the hay meadow measure in ACRES 2023; how many hectares of hay meadow his Department paid out to farmers under the ACRES measure for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17663/24]

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: When we talk about road safety the first thing we have to remember is that many families have been adversely affected by the large number of deaths in tragedies on our roads over the past year. In the first quarter of this year, as the Minister of State acknowledged, the figures have gone up again. This is a serious issue that we need to deal with. Policing is central to that, as the...