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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Role of Chairperson and Future Contributions of Inland Fisheries Ireland and the Board: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank Professor Collins for his opening statement and for taking on the role. I have a few things we might tease out a little. Professor Collins mentioned the report and the prognosis and that there is a set of prescriptions there and a number of actions to be taken. Some are priorities and are urgent. Have any of those been put in place yet? At what stage does Professor Collins expect...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Role of Chairperson and Future Contributions of Inland Fisheries Ireland and the Board: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: Professor Collins mentioned that the organisation has been in the storms. I think that is certainly the case. We all look forward to and hope for finer weather ahead under his stewardship. I detect a certain note of caution in some of his answers, which I think is quite understandable in the circumstances. Are any employees or past employees under investigation in the organisation, such...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Role of Chairperson and Future Contributions of Inland Fisheries Ireland and the Board: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: Is there potential to get us to a place reasonably quickly, with the implementation of the recommendations, so that we can be in a situation where that fine weather can open up and these storms can be put behind us? While there may be past issues, and certainly they need to be examined and lessons learned from, we all want to get to a place where we have an organisation that functions well,...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: We welcome many of the provisions in this Bill, and it goes some way to dealing with the difficulties people have. As Deputy Doherty has outlined, there are many people who are in serious difficulty and who are finding it hard to manage because their loans have been sold to vulture funds, which do not fall under this and do not have access to any recourse when they have a complaint or...

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: The Bill is welcome. Sinn Féin will not oppose its passage. We hope to see it speedily go through the various Stages. On the Bill itself, we all recognise there have been serious issues with the Coroner Service, particularly with regard to delays. Dublin has been the victim of many of these problems. This legislation will deal with Dublin specifically or almost entirely. The issue...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister and his staff for the presentation. An issue at the forefront of all our minds after the tragedies in the past month of road deaths is investment in roads. Some of the accidents happening are on roads with stretches that need work. That road in County Carlow is one of those where applications have been made numerous times for works to be carried out on stretches of it...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: There is also a body of work to be done on traffic calming measures, particularly near towns or other areas where people move from a lower limit to a higher one. The foot goes down and people start driving fast. Often, this is happening in areas where there are quite a number of houses and junctions. There needs to be a re-emphasis on installing mechanisms to calm traffic in such areas. I...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: It is a question of getting the balance right. I agree with the Minister that, in some cases, it will not be popular but there are many local roads with limits of 80 km/h where you would be taking your life in your hands if you tried to drive that quickly. It is ridiculous that they have those limits. A common-sense approach needs to be taken to limits, but the main thing this comes down...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: The Minister can understand the frustration. Did he say 960 schools had applied?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: Few of those projects have been completed or funded, though. There is frustration. I understand that the programme is now closed to applications. Action is required if there is to be enough traction to move this along. Work is under way on BusConnects and other bus projects in Dublin, but many people are frustrated and feel that they are not getting the service they used to. I know...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister of State for outlining the Bill. It is something we have all been keen to look at. First and foremost, I am glad he withdrew the part of it relating to time-dependent penalty points. I hope he now accepts that the notion of having penalty points for weekends as opposed to weekdays is not a good idea and is simply inappropriate, in our system or indeed anywhere. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (13 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: 579. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person over 70 years whose income comes solely from social welfare or HSE payments is entitled to a medical card even though they are over the income threshold, but a person who is over the income threshold due to private income is not entitled to a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6260/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: 584. To ask the Minister for Health the way that a person (details supplied) can get reimbursement for medical expenses from Norway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6297/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: I raise the issue of damage to power lines, particularly in recent storms. In County Leitrim, there are large areas of afforestation. Where there is afforestation, power lines go through it. As part of licence conditions, forestry is supposed to be kept 10 m back from the power lines. Often, that does not happen and it is not being enforced. There are cases of trees coming down on top of...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: Long awaited comes at last, and this has certainly been the case with the executive in the North. We all extend our congratulations and our best wishes to the success of that executive. It comes as one of the key factors of the Good Friday Agreement in the hope that it offered of a co-operative Government that would work together for the benefit of everyone and to build a society that would...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: No, not a chance.

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: The difficulties that lay ahead were spoken about. While there is great hope and a great sense of opportunity in all of this, there are real difficulties. Reference was made to the public servants who had been out on strike. The difficulty in the health service in the North is one of the really terrible issues and particularly at the Fermanagh and Enniskillen hospitals. The A3 road...

Commissions of Investigation (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: The commission of investigation process has huge merit and can deliver. Everyone hoped it would deliver. From previous forms of investigations and tribunals that cost a lot of money, ran on for years and so on, we know that this was an alternative way of doing it that would be more succinct, that would hopefully get to the point more quickly and that would cost less. It held all that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (15 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Chair and I thank the Minister for his opening statement and his remarks. I wish to address the issue of investment in key infrastructure, particularly in public transport and rail infrastructure. The all-Ireland rail review took place recently and it has a number of recommendation, as the Minister is aware. Some of these recommendations fit into the national development plan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (15 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister. I hope this opportunity will be recognised, particularly with the electrification of lines, with battery power and new technology and developments. I also wish to understand the level of ambition there is around developing more bus links in urban areas in particular. I know there are issues in Dublin with BusConnects and so forth. I am sure the Minister hears about...