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- All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)
Martin Kenny: I congratulate the Minister of State on his appointment. It is good to have someone from the west in this role. I know he has always had a strong commitment to the development of the western rail corridor. It always strikes me that the western rail corridor only extends halfway up the west. We need to bring it the rest of the way. It is clear from the map produced with the proposals in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)
Martin Kenny: Is there an increase or not?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: I raise the dermatology service in Sligo University Hospital. I was written to by Dr. Dermot McKenna, a consultant dermatologist. He informed us he was taking leave until the middle of July and no locum had been put in place to replace him during the period. It is a service that is under extreme stress. There are over 3,000 patients in the Sligo area waiting for new dermatological...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: It is under serious pressure and we need action-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: -----to ensure services are put in place.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: It is an example of-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: -----the north west being left behind again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their opening statements, for being here and for all of the work the Department's staff do to ensure farmers get their payments. That needs to be acknowledged from the outset. It is a big task and we recognise that. To go back to ACRES, one of the frustrations for farmers was they applied for the scheme, there was a lot of work involved with planners coming out...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: “Simplification” is the word we continually hear echoing around everything.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: Non-productive investments were mentioned in the second-last paragraph of the opening statement. This is another issue for farmers in that they did not know when they were going to get paid. We are now almost halfway in and many farmers still do not know what is happening. Can anything be done to reassure people with regard to the money they had hoped to get when they went into the scheme?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: To come back to the TAMS issue, the Minister has flagged there may be an order of ranking in TAMS going forward. Do we know where that will be at? What will be prioritised and will not be? Obviously, the level of funding is getting a little bit tight in respect of that. How much additional funding would need to be in place to ensure that would not happen, that is, there would not be that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: If additional money was required, how much?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: Up until now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: Will it take another 10%? More than that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: With regard to the sheep welfare scheme and the beef welfare scheme, which have substantial enough funding in them, are there issues and delays there? I have come across a few. What would be the main problems in dealing with those?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: There were issues for a lot of farmers that they had to do it online. That was a problem for some of them. They had to do it online, through Microsoft Teams, and a lot of farmers were not equipped for that, particularly elderly farmers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: We have gone around the houses a fair bit on this. The frustration, certainly with regard to ACRES, is that there was such a long delay and uncertainty as to when farmers would get paid and where they stood. Farmers could not get through to the Department and could not get any answers. They were on to politicians and everyone else to try to get answers for them, but they could not get...
- Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: My constituency runs along the border of Sligo-Leitrim into south Donegal. The people in Kiltyclogher and Cashel are the same people. People in some parts of Ireland do not understand that. They are related to each other. They are the same people in every way. Their farms straddle the Border. We all understand that yet this artificial division made on the island of Ireland almost 100...
- Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025) Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. I will probably chop and change a little bit between the sections but there are a couple of issues there. As the Minister mentioned, we had his officials in from the Department and from the TB forum in regard to TB. It is a fairly major section of this. The Minister mentioned this and how he is prepared to discuss it in more detail. One of...
- Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025) Martin Kenny: Is the model of farming we have in Ireland going to make it more difficult? Countries where it has been successful have a different model, and that is where I think we have to acknowledge-----