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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: I thank Professor More for this document, which as others have said is very detailed. It goes to the core of the problem. I was looking up a few things and I noticed a delegation from Animal Health New Zealand visited Ireland and Britain in 2008 to speak about how successful New Zealand had been in this area and the measures that could be taken. The paper mentions the possum that was the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: Do different TB strains make a difference?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: I thank Mr. Murphy for his presentation. I wish to ask about the TB eradication programme. The questions are somewhat similar but from a slightly different perspective, given that the witnesses are very much the foot soldiers on the ground in regard to TB eradication. One issue concerns the average length of time for a reactor to be removed from a farm, which is about four weeks. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: I think Mr. Geraghty said that the test was approximately 70% accurate. Suckler farmers have an average of 15 to 18 cows. Those are small numbers so if the tests are not as accurate as we would like them to be and there are smaller numbers in the herd, does that mean there is more of a possibility of herds not being identified? Does Mr. Geraghty understand what I mean? He mentioned a herd...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: In theory, the witnesses are saying a lay corporation can buy a veterinary practice and run it. This has been done in a number of cases and in other cases people are preparing to do it. These practices are then outside the regulations. In theory, the way we could get around this is if the witnesses came together and went to the people with all of the money and told them they would front...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: After a young vet has practised for a while, he or she normally proceeds to take a share in a practice when an older vet retires. Will this measure inhibit that possibility for them?

Fourth Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: The issue is close to me because I know a number of women who were residents of the homes and who raised various issues with me. Their lives, as well as those of their families and others around them, were traumatised and they feel aggrieved that the situation has been pushed back again. They had expected and looked forward to the conclusion of the issue, not now but sooner. In the case of...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: Do we not do so?

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: Both.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: My colleagues have adequately outlined the many reasons Deputy Harris should be removed as Minister for Health. Unless some Fianna Fáil Deputies manage to grow a spine in the next half an hour, the Minister will stay in position with their blessing and under Deputy Micheál Martin’s instruction. Why would Deputy Micheál Martin want to keep Deputy Harris in the position?...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: The comparisons with recent scandals involving the Minister, Deputy Harris, do not need to be expanded on. In each case, Deputy Micheál Martin blamed others. He blamed officials, civil servants and advisers-----

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: -----but he never took responsibility for these scandals as Minister. The simple reality is Deputy Micheál Martin does not believe in accountability in public life nor does Fianna Fáil. His primary legacy is the HSE itself, a body he established, in which he managed to translate his personal failings into an institution with systemic failings. This body continues to affect every...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: The Minister, Deputy Harris, should go but so too should Deputy Micheál Martin. It is time for accountability and it is time to realise that the people deserve better.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Businesses, Smart Communities and Remote Working: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: I welcome all the witnesses and thank them for their contributions. Last week, representatives from Grow Remote were here to talk about the work they are doing on similar lines. I represent Sligo-Leitrim and live in south Leitrim, which is quite rural. It is probably one of the employment black spots mentioned. Interestingly, somebody I was talking to some days ago was considering a job...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Businesses, Smart Communities and Remote Working: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: I was thinking about skills. One of the key issues for any work environment is people being able to enhance their skills in their employment environment. Are there challenges in respect of remote working because one will not have 50 people working together? It comes back to the point that a person may be partially or fully isolated from his or her work colleagues. What means exists to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: This is a serious issue because significant numbers of calves are exported at this time of year. While the lairage facilities currently in place will manage for ten months of the year, we need additional capacity for these two months. There are serious problems because the regulations relating to the timing for when the animals can be on trucks are rigorously applied and they cannot go to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: I thank Ms McPhillips for her opening statement, which was informative. She said beef exports are valued at €2.4 billion. Is that the value at the farm gate? Is it correct that it is the return to the farmer or is that the value from the processors' point of view? I acknowledge there is a continuous effort to create more markets and to push further afield and ensure more markets...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Chairman for giving me the opportunity to be here this morning as I am not a member of the committee and I thank the Commissioner and his team for coming in on this issue. I raised the juvenile diversion programme in October 2016 in relation to a particular case that had come to me. I was assured at the time that there were no issues and that everything was being done...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: I do not want to be specific either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: I understand that. Without going into the specifics of the case, the issue relates to where there has been a sexual assault. Where the perpetrator is an adult, there is an assessment of his or her future potential to offend. As far as I can see, that does not happen in this situation because while the culprit may be referred, there is no compulsion on him or her to attend, and the matter...