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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: It is also an illegal substance in the first place and not like having alcohol.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Yes. I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I will follow on from Deputy Bruton’s question about the brown bins and the amount of organic waste that is going into the wrong bins. Has an analysis been done on why that is? Is it an education problem? Is it the case that the people do not understand? Is it just carelessness? What is the position there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Is it the same in the restaurant sector, which is one of the areas where much of this is happening? Has an analysis been conducted on where this food waste is coming from? Is it being generated in the kitchen? Are people getting portions that are too large, do not finish them, leave a lot on their plates, and that then ends up in the bins? What is the situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Ms McCoole is saying the focus is to change the habit we have generated in this country for many years of the weekly shop, whereby people go out and fill the trolley and probably end up with a large proportion of it wasted. As regards other countries, someone who lived in France told me everybody shops every day for that day. They just buy what they need for that day. That is the culture...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I wish to raise two issues. The Abbey Manor Hotel in Dromahair in County Leitrim received some international protection applicants in recent months. More have come in the past week. The families have been accepted by everyone and I have every confidence that they will be integrated into the community, but the problem that arises wherever people arrive is one of ensuring we have adequate...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I am sure the Taoiseach remembers the early instalments of Harry Potter when he lived under the stairs in a little alcove. When I see this particular topic of well-being framework, it reminded me of that because yesterday we were in Ballinamore and Drumshambo in County Leitrim with the Minister for housing opening some new houses. One of the houses I visited was that of a family there that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: It is a local authority.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Seventy-nine people have died on our roads so far this year. It is a heartbreaking and frightening number. A third of those people were under the age of 25. That is a figure that strikes fear, particularly for parents, throughout the country. The two main contributors to this terrible statistic are driving under the influence and speed. We have seen the advertisements and the...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I wish to raise two issues in respect of this matter with the Minister. I welcomed the Minister to County Leitrim yesterday. We had a good morning there and several housing projects were opened in Drumshanbo and Ballinamore. It was welcome and excellent to see it happen. We need to see more of it throughout the country. That is the real problem. I want to make a point that is often...

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this motion. It is an issue in every constituency in the country and it is certainly an issue in my constituency in regard to the school dental service. Parents contact me regularly where their children have gone into sixth class and have never seen a dentist and go on to secondary school without seeing a dentist. This is happening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: The reason we invited ComReg and Eir to appear before the committee is the outfall from the recent court case, which the witnesses will be aware of. I wish to look at a few issues it shone a light on. The case, and a lot of ComReg's enforcement, is really about complaints mechanisms and whether they are effective and efficient. The next part of that, which is what people really want, is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: On that point, I have come across situations where a provider - normally it is Eir but it may be another provider - goes into a town and provides fibre optic broadband to the houses, all of which have got-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Yes, where the trunking is in place. That only came into place in the mid-1990s, when it became compulsory under building regulations to put in trunking so that cables could be fed into the houses. Houses that are a little older than that do not have it. In order to go into a housing estate where the houses do not have that trunking, it is necessary to dig up the garden and the footpath to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: There are substantial gaps, and they are not just in rural areas. They are in urban areas as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: My understanding was that when a provider took on a contract to do a geographical area, it would provide broadband to all in that area. Of course, some of the houses would be easily done, while others would be more difficult. Whatever the charge was going to be, it would cover the 50 houses where it is dead simple to drop the wire in, put it through the trunking and bring it into the house....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: That means we do not know the situation for the people who are left behind. They are technically in an area which is covered by the commercial provider but they are actually not covered. We will have to wait years before somebody comes back to deal with them, which is very inappropriate for the individuals who are left behind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: It is very unsatisfactory, is it not? Certainly for the people who live in those areas, it is very unsatisfactory.