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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (8 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: 661. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to examine the case of a person (details supplied). Can he confirm if the department contacted the applicant because to date the applicant has received no contact, referring to question: 573 and question ref: 35712/25. [37717/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (10 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: 141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens deported from the United States to Ireland from 1 January 2025 to date. [38381/25]

Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: This is a positive step and a step in the right direction after many years of waiting. Like most public representatives, over the years I too have met and spoken with people from my constituency and other places who have been the victim of sexual abuse in schools. Sometimes it was an institution and sometimes it was not. The one thing that certainly strikes me is that the two were not...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I raise the issue of serious problems in our mental health services, particularly in acute mental health services. I will raise the individual case of a young man in Sligo who was murdered. His name was Jimmy Loughlin. The person who committed the murder was somebody in the care of the mental health services. When incidents like this happen the HSE is meant to carry out what is known as a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I wrote to the Taoiseach three times.

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: The issue of crime is something that is feared as much as anything else across many parts of rural Ireland in particular and in my constituency. We saw today that three people have pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the desperate attack on Tom Niland, an elderly man living alone in a rural area who was set upon, badly beaten and subsequently passed away. The fear that kind of situation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for attending and for all their work on all of this. I will get to the point on a number of the issues. The key discussion today is about ash dieback and the impact it has had. The Minister of State mentioned the climate performance action payment of €5,000 per hectare to ash plantation owners. Is that for clearing the timber that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: Please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: How much?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: The first cases of ash dieback were found near where I live, in a hedgerow near Ballinamore, County Leitrim. Since then, it has spread throughout the entire country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: No, it was before that, I think.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: The people who were affected by that, in the years afterwards, were fighting with the Department to try to get something to happen, to try to resolve the issue, etc. What is the position of those people now? They applied before and found the schemes they applied for came nowhere near what was adequate. What should they do now? Is the Minister of State saying they have to reapply?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: Is the €5,000 per hectare for tree planting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: The Minister of State said there was €2,000 for clearance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: It is €10,000 per hectare now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: It is important we get clarity. The Minister of State is saying that people who applied in the past and got the initial payment, which was not adequate and they found they had been hugely short-changed - they had cleared 20 ha of forestry and found they were debt because of that - can get an additional €5,000 for the hectares they cleared in the past.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: Another issue is that many of those people could not replant their land for ten years because there was no scheme which was efficient enough for them to do so. They have therefore lost ten years. That is another aspect that needs to be considered. When people go to replant, what kind of trees can they plant? They cleared a hardwood. Do they have to plant a hardwood in its place or can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: Could they restore the land to arable farmland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: That is the case even though it is good land.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: However, they will spend it on replanting it.