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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (30 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: The difficulty is we often hear about armchair farmers and individuals who do not engage in farming, yet receive all of the subsidies. Sometimes there is a view that to try to ensure this will not continue, we have to delineate certain categories. I fear that, with the tiny minority in that category, there is a larger group who would be affected in a negative way. I welcome the Minister's...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (30 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: 44. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which basic payments to farmers will be affected under the new CAP arrangements in view of the fact so many farmers are working off-farm in order to sustain their livelihood. [23721/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (30 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: This question refers to something we have heard talked about on many occasions recently, namely, the issue of farmers having to be full-time farmers, or at least to get the majority of their income from farming. On many small holdings on marginal land, it is very difficult for people to make a living. The reality is at least one person, if not two people, in the household have to work...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (30 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: I welcome the clarification. I understand it is only a draft that will be seen and that there are negotiations involved. However, we would welcome reassurance from the Minister and his Department that, in those negotiations, everything will be done to ensure that no definition of farmer is introduced which would mean many in the farming community who are on marginal land, and have to depend...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: We are discussing what happens when children who are seeking to go to college, particularly in Dublin, encounter accommodation problems and their families at home try to pay for that accommodation. We often talk about the presence of free education in our society, but even those who are fortunate enough to receive the maximum SUSI grant cannot afford to send their children to college,...

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: There is a firm commitment in the programme for Government to resource our hospitals. Last week, I spoke to a lady who was waiting for almost a month to get a report on an MRI scan before it could be sent to her specialist. The MRI scan was done in the same hospital. It only had to go 100 m up the corridor, yet it took a month to do this because there are not enough radiologists to read...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Different Approaches and New Opportunities in Irish Agriculture: University College Dublin (29 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: The witnesses are all very welcome. I thank them for their presentation. In the context of young people and attracting more of them into the agriculture sector, conversations like this help a lot. A number of issues stand out. First, there is what we already do in the mainstream. Most farming here is dairy, bovine or sheep production. That is the mainstay of Irish agriculture; it is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (29 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: 317. To ask the Minister for Health when the free general practitioner card for persons in receipt of carer's allowance will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23111/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Data (29 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: 496. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of hectares deemed eligible for basic payments in 2016 and 2017; the average payment per hectare; the amount that was raised through degressivity here in 2015, 2016 and 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23769/18]

Other Questions: Health and Safety (24 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: 6. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to instruct the Health and Safety Authority to conduct a safety audit of the State’s livestock marts in view of the considerable risk to personal safety posed by conditions at many of them. [18213/18]

Other Questions: Health and Safety (24 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: Regarding livestock marts, in County Leitrim we have five such marts and an incident at one of them a few months ago, where a man was seriously injured, rang alarm bells for me. While the marts are very well managed and run, they are very dangerous places with many very stressed cattle and many people who are anxious to look at those cattle and who often put themselves in a dangerous...

Other Questions: Health and Safety (24 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I also raise this issue in the context of insurance problems, an issue which is very live at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform at the moment. There have been huge increases in insurance premiums for marts which is not unrelated to health and safety issues. We need to find a solution in a collaborative...

Other Questions: Health and Safety (24 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: I understand all the dangers in this area. The Minister of State made reference to guidelines issued by the HSA but the authority needs to sit down with all of the mart owners to work out a solution. That solution must then be clearly communicated to farmers, employees and patrons of the marts. Safety must be to the fore. I want to send my best wishes to the man who was hurt recently in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (24 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister of State. I am aware of and acknowledge that, but much of it is not driven by Government incentive or initiatives. It is driven by the companies themselves who are developing and working. What my party is saying is there needs to be more effort made to help those companies, and particularly the indigenous industries. Brexit is looming and many of our indigenous...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (24 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: How does the Minister of State intend to attract more foreign direct investment to Leitrim and the regions and what is his plan to ensure that indigenous Irish businesses establish and grow in these areas and offset the reliance on foreign direct investment? I know the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, is absent because she is meeting a delegation at the Border to demonstrate the impact of Brexit....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (24 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: I am glad to hear the answer from the Minister of State. It is good to see that there is a focus from the Government on delivering jobs in the regions. We have heard that before. However, the reality in places like counties Leitrim and Roscommon and other areas in the north and west is quite different. Last year, 89 jobs were created in Leitrim by companies supported by IDA Ireland., less...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (24 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: 233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an ongoing issue (details supplied) with Irish Water will be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23059/18]

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2018: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: I wish to share time with Deputy Pearse Doherty.

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2018: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: I move amendment No. 1:To insert the following after “hereby annulled”: “and calls on the Government to introduce regulations that will provide redress to the courts in circumstances where the complainant is not satisfied with a sanction made under the regulations, in order to give effect to the ruling of the Supreme Court of Ireland on this matter.” I thank...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 May 2018)

Martin Kenny: I am interested in Deputy Micheál Martin's observation on the issue of support for Government and people getting tipped off. Perhaps he did not look for enough when he was doing the deal.