Results 2,861-2,880 of 4,305 for speaker:Martin Kenny

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...

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

Martin Kenny: I will.

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

Martin Kenny: I certainly will. A somewhat connected issue relates to where juveniles continue to reoffend, where they have gone through the juvenile process, gone into the programme and offend and do so again and again, up to a dozen times. When this happens in a community, the community can feel that a particular individual is being allowed to get away with everything for a considerable period. I...

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

Martin Kenny: Does the Commissioner concur with the view of victims that they been have let down to the extent that they feel victimised again and should An Garda Síochána recognise and acknowledge that?

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

Martin Kenny: Does the Commissioner concur that in the small number of cases deemed suitable for the youth diversion programme, the victims were also let down by that programme?

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

Martin Kenny: The interim report and the full report, which is being prepared at the moment, is about people who were not diverted to the juvenile diversion problem. Is there any intention to conduct an assessment of the issues that I have raised in regard to those who were diverted into the programme and had no issues? I implore that that would be a direction that we should move into.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Project Funding (12 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: 85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to providing funding for the creation of activity tourism hubs in which persons and groups in rural Ireland offering such activities could come together and provide a joint offer to tourists within an area. [52143/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee and making their presentations. It is clear that the live export market is needed to maintain prices for farmers, and we all recognise that. I am interested in lairage, one of the key points that has been raised. Mr. Scallan referred to the time factor and said that calves stop for 12 hours rest and feeding, etc., and then move on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: We will be politically correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: Is the time measured from when it leaves here until it gets to the lairage?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (7 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to issues regarding farm insurance that farmers are unable to attain cover for livestock other than sheep that are worried or attacked by dogs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6091/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (7 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to issues regarding farm insurance by which farmers cannot obtain insurance cover for the theft of livestock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6095/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (7 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to issues regarding farm insurance by which insurance companies are refusing to provide cover for working dogs over five years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6097/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (7 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that insurance companies are refusing to provide insurance cover to farmers for worrying of livestock other that sheep, theft of livestock and for working dogs over five years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6096/19]