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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: It is quite related, in fairness.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: For many people living across the length and breadth of the country, this budget has been quite disappointing. It is a disappointment for workers that they see no tax relief whatsoever, except for a very elite few who happen to be building apartments in Dublin that nobody can afford. They seem to be the only people who have been looked after from a taxation point of view. The agricultural...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: Modelling or not, the reality is the number of reactors are going up. That is the problem we have got here.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: Therefore, we have a TB eradication programme that is underfunded in the budget. That is the reality of it.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: We will see at the end of the year where we are. It has been underfunded in every budget to date.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: If we are to go on precedent, we expect it to be the same again. One of the big complaints farmers have is the valuation they are receiving for reactor cattle, which is too low and does not represent the current market value of cattle. I will give an example. James from Sligo sent me a handwritten note only the other day. In May 2025, he lost seven cattle that were valued at 2023...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: For the beef sector and a whole lot of sectors, nothing is happening. It is a disappointing budget for the agricultural sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: I welcome all the participants who are here and thank them for their statements. I am certainly conscious of how social farming has grown in County Leitrim over the past decade or more, and how it has provided leadership to many other places around the country. That is to be commended. Without that, many places would not have been able to get it started. The example was there. Often when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: And towards farming.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: I take it that a lot of the participants would be referred by whatever other service they engage in-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: -----and the experience is that there is not enough spaces and enough social farms available for them to go to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: From speaking to social workers and all kinds of people in that area, I know they all recognise the huge value of this. Unfortunately, they all feel that there is not enough availability there. That is what we need to try and change-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Social Farming: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: -----and that will come with funding.

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: I commend everybody who works in mental health services across the country. Many people's first port of call is their GP. The GP is the rock they can cling to and sometimes the only access they have to someone who will help them. In her opening statement, the Minister of State said this year's theme was “Access to Services – Mental Health in Catastrophes and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (7 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new toilet block in a school (details supplied) will be operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53010/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (7 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: 622. To ask the Minister for Health when the building of the surgical hub at Sligo University Hospital will commence; the expected time frame for the building of the surgical hub to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53304/25]

Housing Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (14 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: This legislation comes in the context of a severe housing crisis across the country not just now but for almost the past decade, people have been trying to find a home with little success, unfortunately. The Housing Finance Agency is about providing money for local authorities and other agencies such as approved housing bodies, etc., to build houses and for higher education authorities. It...

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (14 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: Speaking at the launch of the five-year national human rights strategy for disabled people in Ireland, the Taoiseach said it was a "landmark moment for the advancement of disability rights in Ireland." Last week, with the budget, the Government cut vital cost-of-living supports for people with disabilities. This amounts to a €1,400 drop in income for people with disabilities across...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Meetings (14 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: 90. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on his recent meetings with his EU counterparts in relation to the next CAP at the AGRIFISH Council meeting in Brussels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54989/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Meetings (14 Oct 2025)

Martin Kenny: I want to ask about the CAP negotiations, the recent meetings the Minister has had with his EU counterparts on the progress we hope to see that will result in a new CAP being put in place in the next couple of years, and what it will mean for Irish farmers. As the Minister is aware, there is considerable concern over the extent of the cuts. The CAP is vital to ensuring Irish farmers have a...