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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (6 Feb 2025)

Martin Kenny: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide funding for the replacement of windows and doors in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3726/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (6 Feb 2025)

Martin Kenny: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will grant the application for immediate emergency, temporary accommodation to address the current overcrowded conditions in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3753/25]

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Martin Kenny: The Minister will be aware that we have a large volume of forestry in County Leitrim. We probably have the highest amount of forestry in the country per head of population or for the land area. That brought huge devastation when the power lines that go through the forests came down. The main issue we have is that the trees are planted too close to the lines. It is as simple as that. ESB...

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Martin Kenny: -----that they could not get any power for weeks on end. We cannot see a repeat of this in the future.

Provision of Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2025)

Martin Kenny: I commend Deputy O'Rourke on bringing forward this motion this evening. Like every other Deputy in this House, I have been inundated with people and families who face a terrible situation. They have children who need a special class or accommodation but cannot get it anywhere. Everywhere I go across the whole west of Ireland, Leitrim, Sligo and Donegal, I come across children who are...

Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)

Martin Kenny: I congratulate the Minister of State on her new role. The opportunity to speak about artificial intelligence is apt at this point in time. At no age in our society has technology had a bigger role, particularly considering social media and the impact that has had on so many people across the globe, particularly across Ireland. It is clear that there is significant power in all of that....

Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)

Martin Kenny: That is why we must have firm regulation. That is why we have to ensure regulation is in place. Even the heroes of capitalism recognise the difficulty with it and the flaw in it, which is that the most powerful can use it for the negative and for their own benefit. That is why we have to ensure that artificial intelligence is used in a way which will be positive for people. That can only...

Importance of Agrifood to the Irish Economy: Statements (20 Feb 2025)

Martin Kenny: Many congratulations to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on his position. I welcome the new Minister to his role also. I worked with the Minister, Deputy Heydon, in the previous Government and I hope to have a good and productive relationship with him in this one, and indeed with the Minister of State, Deputy Grealish. Much of what the Minister has said I cannot disagree with. We have a vibrant...

Driver Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2025)

Martin Kenny: When I held the transport portfolio, which is about a year and a half ago now, the Minister's predecessor, Deputy Jack Chambers, told me this was all being solved, sorted out and going in the right direction. I remember him standing here and telling us that more driving test instructors were being recruited, more testing centres would be opened and everything was in hand and would be sorted...

Driver Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2025)

Martin Kenny: These are the issues we need to deal with. They need to be treated with a sense of urgency, rather than continually passing the buck. We are asking for the implementation of a strategic plan to achieve the magic ten-week target for the waiting list. That is what needs to happen. I recognise that the Government is not going to oppose the motion but that is not enough. The Minister needs...

Housing Commission Report: Statements (27 Feb 2025)

Martin Kenny: I welcome the debate and wish both Ministers all the best in their new portfolios. However, one of the things that is very difficult to listen to from both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael is that they are the parties for homeownership. It is striking because since Fine Gael came into government almost 14 years ago, and was supported by Fianna Fáil over the past number of years, in every...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Kenny: 87. To ask the Minister for Health if a mental health information database CAMHS consultant has been recruited to the children's disability network team for Sligo, Leitrim, south Donegal and west Cavan; if there are adequate supports for this role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9505/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Kenny: I submitted a question on the issue of the MHID CAMHS consultant, but it was wrongly interpreted as referring to a "mental health information database" consultant rather than a "mental health intellectual disability" consultant. The intellectual disability service is required. We raised the issue in the Chamber several times of a child called Maggie in Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, who was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Kenny: It is Question No. 87.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Kenny: The CAMHS issue is an issue across the country. The Minister of State mentioned that it is one of her priorities. I will provide a second example in respect of CAMHS. A family's GP sent a letter to CAMHS to refer a child who needed to get into CAMHS. They received correspondence stating that there was no clinical lead for the CAMHS post in CHO 1, which covers Leitrim, east Sligo and west...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Kenny: No.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Kenny: I will get the letter for the Minister of State.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Kenny: I will come back to the Minister of State with the specifics in respect of the case but the truth is that there are thousands of children across the country who cannot get access to CAMHS. I appreciate that there are more people being recruited but it does not meet the demand or come anywhere near meeting the demand. In team one in the Sligo, Leitrim region, the CAMHS team has no clinical...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Kenny: The reality is that it is without support.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Kenny: I want to raise the issue of the storms six weeks ago. Most people in my part of the country were without power for some time, some for a long time, and dozens of people still have no phone line, in particular elderly people living in rural areas. Dorothy, who is in her 80s and living in north Leitrim, has no phone line and had no electricity for three weeks. She has a panic button in case...