Results 461-480 of 4,132 for speaker:Martin Kenny

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (21 Mar 2017)

Martin Kenny: 1083. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department’s strategy for containing the mycoplasma bovis disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13776/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (21 Mar 2017)

Martin Kenny: 1084. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports that his Department provides to farmers who discover mycoplasma bovis disease in their herds; if his Department offers preventative guidance to farmers in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13777/17]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017)

Martin Kenny: I apologise for being late. Having read through the Minister's opening statement, I see he raised the marketing campaign of Bord Bia. I am very conscious that today the European Commission has banned imports into Europe of beef and meat products from four companies in Brazil.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017)

Martin Kenny: Yes.

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (Resumed) (22 Mar 2017)

Martin Kenny: I became very aware of the issue of the Tuam mother and baby home during the election campaign this time last year. I was canvassing in an area and was told a woman in a house wanted to see me. I went down to see her and spent half an hour with her. She told me she had been born in Tuam. Her earliest memory of growing up was hunger and how all the other little children that were with her...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Mar 2017)

Martin Kenny: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the school transport rate payable to a provider, per kilometre, per child; and the way this compares with the grant payable to parents to transport their children the same distance to school. [14330/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (28 Mar 2017)

Martin Kenny: 471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Irish draw-downs under the seafood processing capital investmen t scheme; the number of persons who availed of the scheme in increments (details supplied) in 2014, 2015 and 2016, in tabular form; the total amount that could have been drawn by Ireland in each of these years; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (4 Apr 2017)

Martin Kenny: 591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if on signing up to CAP II he agreed to the implementation of a clawback on the leasing of entitlements; if so, the reason he has not implemented such a clawback; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16278/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Laboratory Facilities (4 Apr 2017)

Martin Kenny: 610. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if service users and providers will be permitted to have an input in the terms of reference for the cost benefit analysis of the regional veterinary laboratories; and if these bodies will include the IFA, the ICMSA, INHFA, VOA and Impact; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16759/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta (4 Apr 2017)

Martin Kenny: I welcome the witnesses from Iasc Mara Teoranta and thank them for their presentation. What is at issue is that the big guy should not be able to do this, if the rules are implemented in the way the rules are supposed to be. Clearly that is the problem. What the Department is saying in its mission statement is that this should not happen, that the rules state it should not happen. Yet it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta (4 Apr 2017)

Martin Kenny: The big contradiction here is between what the Department's policy document, Fisheries Quota Management in Ireland, states it has to do and free market enterprise, which flies in the face of it. The problem is that the bigger factories, which are also the bigger owners of boats - they are both the same thing - can create a monopoly and squeeze everybody else out. That flies in the face of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta (4 Apr 2017)

Martin Kenny: If the Department has not given a reply maybe we could invite some officials in and try to get that reply. That would probably be the way forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Martin Kenny: I know that there are changes coming in regard to people getting on public boards as how they are interviewed, as opposed to being selected by the Minister. How will that come into play here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Martin Kenny: Are there many laboratories approved at present?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Martin Kenny: This would be a change-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Martin Kenny: The question I am asking is whether it means the test can be carried out at other laboratories other than their own laboratories?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Martin Kenny: If the person is there and has not paid the fine, would he or she not just be taken to court for non-payment of the fine anyway?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Martin Kenny: It would go the legal route then and the courts would be sent to collect the fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Martin Kenny: Is the fine of €5,000 for a breach?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)

Martin Kenny: How long does a person have to appeal?