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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: I will follow up on that. The association contacted Ministers or senior people in the Government. That was its choice. Did it make them aware of how serious this crisis was becoming? If any of the rest of us were in those positions and were made aware that it was going to come to this, I expect we would have ensured that we did not find ourselves in a position where the association was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: How many bed nights were being provided per year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: If this funding was in place and it is spread out over ten years, taking 4,000 bed nights per year it is approximately €30 per bed per night that the State would have to fund. We take it that it would be for ten years. It would be very good value and ensure that we have choice for the people who want that choice.

Finance Bill 2019: Order for Fifth Stage (20 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: No.

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: Unlikely.

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: I want to respond to the comments about rural housing and people who live in rural areas. We need people to live in rural Ireland and we need to grant planning permission for people to do so. Those people are not some kind of a pollutant to be stamped out. Some people would think that was the case. In fact, the vast majority of people living in rural Ireland are much more efficient...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: I support the amendment. As I live in rural Ireland, I am very conscious of the issues facing the farming community. Given that farmers make very little money, for quite some time there has been little opportunity to tax them, in particular farmers with smaller holdings on poorer land in the west. They are the very farmers who will be impacted the most by the carbon tax that has been...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: The Minister stated he concurred with my analysis that we need to change the politics and to invest more in rural areas and the regions where we have most potential, but that will require the finance to do so. The difficulty is that an awful lot of people find that the pressed middle, or the ordinary worker, provides all the finance for everything. The issue, as has been pointed out by...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: I support the amendment. Many people, including the types of workers referred to by Deputy Mattie McGrath, who are in good jobs in high-tech businesses, pay a lot of tax and sometimes feel aggrieved that they can hardly afford their rent or mortgage. They perceive themselves as being in the squeezed middle while large corporations pay very little tax. Moreover, it seems that the larger the...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: The Deputy is getting older.

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and promise to confine myself to the time allocated. The problem of hospital overcrowding stretches to every part of the country. Most people's experience of it is that it is a direct result of under-staffing in hospitals. That is the nub of the issue. I was contacted this week by a nurse who is employed in a hospital through an agency. She applied for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Garda National Immigration Bureau (20 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: 2. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on passport checks taking place on the Border at Garda checkpoints and on public transport, the reason for same and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47532/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Garda National Immigration Bureau (20 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: As the Minister is aware, in recent times, checkpoints have been placed on the Border. There has been a renewed effort by An Garda Síochána to have these checks and people have been asked for their passports. I have come across cases where Irish citizens living in the North and working in the South who have crossed the Border every day for the past ten to 15 years have found that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Garda National Immigration Bureau (20 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: I am sure the Minister would accept that many people experience this as a hardening of the Border. They experience it as people being asked for documentation they were not asked for heretofore. Even during the days of conflict, this level of identification - people being asked to produce their passports - was seldom sought. This is now happening. Many people on this island who voted for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Garda National Immigration Bureau (20 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: I accept that it is not a new phenomenon from the point of view of the legislation that governs it but it is a new phenomenon from the point of view of it being applied and implemented so harshly. That is the point. We have the DUP and others in the North who clearly want to build a border that is as hard as possible. There is an onus on all of us to ensure that does not succeed and that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: State Visits (20 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: 12. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the area of the budget of An Garda Síochána from which the estimated €15 to €18 million cost of the visits of the President and Vice-President of the United States of America will come from; the details of the expenditure in view of the high cost and the fact that the visits were of a short duration;...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Records (Exchange of Information) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (20 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister for his presentation. Most of the relevant questions have already been dealt with. There is one thing that strikes me with this. A conviction may be spent, and I have an example of this from an individual who came to me about this a number of years ago, where in his youth he had issues with mental health problems and got into spots of bother, as he described it, and it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: Like others, I commend the Oireachtas and RTÉ on last week's Youth Assembly on climate action. There was some disappointment that RTÉ would not facilitate the participation of young people from the North, but it was an important event and the people who participated so fully did their communities proud. As the Taoiseach knows, the challenge of climate change is unlike anything we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (19 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: It was me.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (19 Nov 2019)

Martin Kenny: Is the Taoiseach concerned about that?