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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Housing Regeneration (25 Sep 2018)

Martin Kenny: 85. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the pilot scheme to provide funding for the renovation of rural houses in towns and villages; if there will be adequate funding for same for in budget 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38585/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Budget 2019 (25 Sep 2018)

Martin Kenny: 99. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if budget 2019 will be rural-proofed in order to ensure that there will be no further cuts to services for rural communities; if recent cuts to services will be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38586/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Chair for the opportunity to contribute and the witnesses for attending. I live in rural County Leitrim where the issues are very similar to those that have been raised. Almost every year we have a crisis in some parish or another where children are considered concessionary and cannot get a seat on the bus or families who have sent three of their children to a particular school...

Local Government (Water Pollution)(Amendment) Bill 2018: First Stage (27 Sep 2018)

Martin Kenny: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the provisions of the Local Government (Water Pollution) Act 1977 to provide for the granting of discharge licences by a water services authority for the development of single houses; and to provide for related matters. This Bill seeks to amend the Local Government (Water Pollution) Act 1977 to provide for the granting...

Local Government (Water Pollution)(Amendment) Bill 2018: First Stage (27 Sep 2018)

Martin Kenny: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural Businesses: Irish Local Development Network (27 Sep 2018)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for attending. The enthusiasm of Dr. Senan Cooke is contagious for all of us. I live in a rural parish and some of his comments struck me strongly. Our parish has a three-teacher school and, on 30 September, we will not have enough pupils to maintain that number. Over the summer, we ran a campaign to get new families to come to the area. We found new families who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural Businesses: Irish Local Development Network (27 Sep 2018)

Martin Kenny: I will make a comment that cuts across all of that. Many people on social welfare who want to participate in various schemes or start their own businesses are in a trap because they cannot get any help. It is almost as if they fall into an abyss. They have to be on social welfare for a year before they can get on the back-to-work scheme and many other schemes. They despair in terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (2 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: 162. To ask the Minister for Finance when the earned income tax credit will be increased from its 2018 level of €1,150 to €1,650 as promised in the Programme for a Partnership Government. [39932/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Walks Scheme (2 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: 573. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the €2 million increase in allocation of funding for the walks scheme will be announced as promised in the programme for partnership Government. [39931/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister and his officials for their attendance today. I attended a meeting last night in Ballinasloe on the issue of the suckler herd and I estimate there were between 400 and 500 farmers present. They were all feeling huge pressure because of the impact of the beef sector on the suckler cow sector. They are in a real crisis. As I pointed out last night, it is four years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: I appreciate that a suckler scheme becomes a coupled scheme. I understand that the Minister does not want to go down that route. I wonder whether there is a way of doing that which would be more like a welfare scheme for the weanling calf. Maybe certain actions relating to husbandry, welfare and management could be put in place. Such a scheme would be about the calf rather than the cow....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: That is what we need to do. We are here to discuss the budget. Will something be put in place in the budget to help young farmers who are entering the industry? That is one of the issues we need to deal with. We have a bunch of forgotten farmers. We do not want to see any more farmers being put into that category. While I do not want to delay the meeting, I would like to raise two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities for Budget 2019: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: I understand it was presented in the past few days.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Pobal: Chairperson Designate (3 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: I thank all the witnesses, particularly Dr. Ó Broin, for attending this morning. I echo Senator Coffey's comments on the bureaucracy and difficulties community projects find in meeting the very high bar that has been set around accountability for many of them. That point is regularly raised with us. The issue seems to have become more burdensome in recent years. I have dealt with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Pobal: Chairperson Designate (3 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: On the inspections, is Dr. Ó Broin saying it has been identified that walk-in inspections are a problem and that Pobal intends to change that? Is Pobal being directed to do it that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Pobal: Chairperson Designate (3 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: Is that coming from the Department or from Pobal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Pobal: Chairperson Designate (3 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: I thank the delegates for their presentations. One thing that strikes me immediately about Microfinance Ireland is the fact that sums of between €2,000 and €25,000 are available. A figure of €25,000 seems very small and to be a very low threshold because many people in starting a business would need three times that figure to get it off the ground. As three times the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme (4 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: 177. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in the BDG scheme on course for meeting their herds' 20% target by 31 October 2018; the number not on course to meet their target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40402/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Work Allowance Appeals (4 Oct 2018)

Martin Kenny: 235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a back to work enterprise allowance claim by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40476/18]