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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: What supports or assistance did the Department give to the holding of the Garda Representative Association, GRA, conference in 2020? As we know, the event took place during the pandemic when practically nothing was happening anywhere in the country. I have a letter to the Minister from Jim Mulligan, the former president of the GRA, in which he expressed concerns that unofficial lobbying had...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: The issues here go beyond the conference. All of us understand that there are issues with the Garda Representative Association, particularly in its governance. Individual members of An Garda Síochána to whom I have spoken are concerned at the way things are run and operated. We know there were difficulties in the past in that regard. On 15 December 2020, the Minister received a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: I understand the Minister's reluctance to get involved. It is probably appropriate on one level but, as she said, ordinary members of An Garda Síochána do magnificent work and deserve to be properly represented. We all agree on that. In January 2018, or perhaps before that, the management consultancy firm, Ampersand, made a number of recommendations in respect of a whole range of...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: In this Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill there is a welcome move to rebalance the situation. We all recognise that. It brings the local authorities back into play, which was one of the big criticisms everyone had of the strategic housing development process, which was the previous arrangement in place. Local communities everywhere want to be...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: The Deputy and his colleagues supported it for five years.

Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: We have had this debate for years. Even in the last Dáil we had similar debates about mother and baby institutions. I use the word "institutions" because they certainly were not homes for the women who ended up there. This week, I spoke to a woman who told me about her mother who, as a 15-year-old, was bought by her father and the parish priest in a horse and trap to one of these...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (24 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: 47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expenditure by his Department on providing private security for public transport by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57954/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (24 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: 158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the funding her Department has provided to rape crisis support centres across the country since 2016, in tabular form; if there are plans to provide ring-fenced funding to these organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57955/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (24 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: 159. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the financial supports her Department offers to an association (details supplied). [57956/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (24 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: 160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in the State who have been arrested under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 since 2016. [57957/21]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: We welcome the Bill, which is long overdue. We will support its main thrust. I understand some quarters put a spin on this, but the reality is that it is about workers' rights and it is a workers' rights issue. Legislators, as Members of the House, are responsible for many things. One of the things for which we are responsible is workers' rights. We have to stand up for the staff we...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (30 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: The issue across the entire hospital group is capacity more than anything else. We hit it all the time and the number of people on trolleys and on waiting lists comes up in the Chamber regularly. The staffing issues in Sligo University Hospital, particularly in the emergency department, have been at crisis point for the past number of months. We met the management of the hospital who told...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (30 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: The Minister of State referred to the recruitment of staff as being impossible. We need to drill down on the reasons for that. The reason is that the HSE is trying to recruit staff into a chaotic situation where they are required to work in an understaffed ward with one person having to take on all the responsibilities which should be shared among three or four people. As a result of that...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Martin Kenny: I am glad we have had the opportunity to come back to this. It was quite rushed the last night. We were somewhat under pressure. The events that were happening the very night we were here debating the Bill brought into very sharp focus what all of this is about and the issues involved. All of us are of common mind in our determination to find a way to ensure that the people who engage in...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Martin Kenny: I understand the position the Minister of State is putting forward. He gave the example of a person from Libya or another such country coming here and being able to make the defence that he or she had been working for a humanitarian organisation, a defence that cannot be verified. Consider the case of a family from Africa who have been in Ireland for several years and learn of a relative in...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Martin Kenny: On the Minister of State's assertion that the old legislation failed or did not work, it was not a failure of conviction; it was a failure of detection. I expect very few people were ever actually detected, arrested or charged with smuggling persons into the country in the first place. It is very unlikely in such circumstances that any legislation is going to work unless we are able to...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Martin Kenny: How many charges have been brought?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (7 Dec 2021)

Martin Kenny: 64. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she is considering plans to incentivise the owners of derelict properties in rural Ireland to refurbish and redevelop these buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60079/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (7 Dec 2021)

Martin Kenny: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if exceptions can be made in relation to the previous 12-month income threshold for social housing support in cases in which the circumstances of a person change such as a dramatic reduction in income due to losing their job; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60364/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (7 Dec 2021)

Martin Kenny: 441. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for asylum by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60255/21]