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Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (26 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: 684. To ask the Minister for Health the number of part-time occupational therapists in counties Leitrim and Sligo who are on leave; the type of leave; the length of time they have been on leave; and the date they are due to return to work [35052/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (26 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: 685. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide adequate cover for occupational therapists in counties Leitrim and Sligo to go on leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35053/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (26 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: 763. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to be seen by an occupational therapist in counties Leitrim and in Sligo for more than one month, two months and three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35311/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (26 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: 1199. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that new regulations introduced in January 2017 mean that cattle presented at a mart but not sold are not eligible for export for 30 days and that this is having a detrimental effect on the cattle trade and on exporters' ability to fulfil their contracts; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (26 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: 1438. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the criteria have changed for the local youth club grant scheme to prioritising groups in which 75% of the youth members are between ten and 21 years of age and requiring 75% to be between ten to 21 years of age. [35822/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (26 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: 1439. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether scout groups could be disadvantaged by the change to the local youth club grant scheme which requires groups to have 75% of youth members between ten and 21 years of age (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35823/17]

Mortgage Arrears Resolution (Family Home) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: While we fully support the Bill, which is the right way to move forward, we need to bear in mind why such a Bill is needed. We are not talking about loan books or pieces of paper; we are talking about people's lives. We are talking about families who are struggling to make ends meet and find that their very future is in jeopardy. The programme for Government promised to do something to...

Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017: First Stage (12 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: The Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill is about ensuring people who live on the islands have a future and about facilitating their right to maintain a way of life they have had for centuries. The problem at the moment is that under the Common Fisheries Policy many small fishermen on our islands are not able to have a living. Working in conjunction with the Irish Islands Marine...

Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017: First Stage (12 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: I was going to raise the same matter because I have learned that over 50% of GPs in County Leitrim will be gone in the next seven years. There are significant problems with medical services in rural Ireland. The programme for Government includes a commitment to increase the number of occupational therapists and language therapists. County Leitrim is meant to have two occupational...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: London Fisheries Convention: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister and the officials for the presentation. I fully appreciate where he is coming from with regard to the Common Fisheries Policy, as there must be some kind of common approach with all the other EU member states. We can term what we are looking at as UK waters - until now, they were all EU waters - and it represents 17% of the overall EU fisheries, including the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: London Fisheries Convention: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: We are back to the same problem. We should look at this stage to see if the Bill can be amended to try to deal with those matters. Is that possible? We do not know. As has been pointed out already, we do know so much about this. It is almost an impossible position, and that is the problem with Brexit. It has everybody left in such a confused state as to what the impact will be. There...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Welfare Scheme Expenditure (11 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: 547. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount spent on the sheep welfare scheme; if there has been underexpenditure on this scheme; and if he has considered a top-up payment to successful applications. [32083/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: 552. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the unallocated spend within his Department for 2017; the expenditure allocated to programmes in 2017 which are due to cease in 2017; the total funds that will become available within his Department's expenditure profile in 2018 due to changes in demand for goods and services and or changes to costs within his Department and so on;...

Independent Reporting Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (6 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: To be honest, I was not going to speak on this Bill at all. I was up in the office watching on the monitor and listening to Deputy Breathnach. While I was angry for a moment, it soon turned to regret that Fianna Fáil Members have come to a place at which they see any opportunity to speak about this conflict as an opportunity to attack Sinn Féin. To go to such places as to talk...

Independent Reporting Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (6 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: The truth is that the conflict in Ireland has thousands of different dimensions to it - not one, but thousands. Thousands of people were hurt and thousands of people made an effort to take us to a different place. Many of us from a republican community worked very hard to engage and do everything we could to bring things forward. We went into the hard places and sat in rooms to talk to the...

Independent Reporting Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (6 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: It would do Deputy Breathnach no harm to spend a bit more time North of the Border. We see people's judgment of these things reflected in the elections. In the last election, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour supported the SDLP. Where is the SDLP? The people made their choice. If the people of the North are so wrong to support Sinn Féin, then Deputy Breathnach needs to go and...

Independent Reporting Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (6 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: The truth of it is that the Irish people have decided that peace is the way forward. That is a peace with justice, not a peace for any sake. I am not here to try to say that republicans were correct in everything they did throughout the conflict. That is not the case. However, we are certainly not going to be attacked by a political party whose only motivation in all of these things is to...

Independent Reporting Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (6 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: The power-sharing Executive that we have had in the North for the past number of years has not been about power-sharing. From a unionist point of view, it has been about power-dividing and about dividing up power and people. That is what we want to end and we will stand firm to ensure this does end. Acht na Gaeilge and the other issues are about not just respect for the Irish language but...

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (6 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: I move amendment No. 28:In page 26, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:"Amendment of section 4I of Criminal Procedure Act 1967 25.Section 4I of the Criminal Procedure Act 1967 is amended—(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):"(3) Subsection (2) is without prejudice to the right of—(a) a parent, relative or friend of the accused or...