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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Martin Kenny: It would go the legal route then and the courts would be sent to collect the fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Martin Kenny: Is the fine of €5,000 for a breach?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Martin Kenny: How long does a person have to appeal?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Martin Kenny: There is an issue with regard to the straws used for insemination. They can be used for years after the dog is long dead. This question was brought up at some stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Martin Kenny: Yes, I think so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Martin Kenny: The point is that if the straw was used from ten years ago and the dog was dead three or four years before that, up until 2014 there was an issue with that but it was not actually being dealt with in practice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Martin Kenny: That is gone since then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Martin Kenny: That is no longer the rule. Clearly, however, the issue that the breed would all come from the one line is the problem. One would say that is an issue for anything in nature.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (4 Apr 2017)
Martin Kenny: How does one overcome that?
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (4 Apr 2017)
Martin Kenny: 591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if on signing up to CAP II he agreed to the implementation of a clawback on the leasing of entitlements; if so, the reason he has not implemented such a clawback; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16278/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Laboratory Facilities (4 Apr 2017)
Martin Kenny: 610. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if service users and providers will be permitted to have an input in the terms of reference for the cost benefit analysis of the regional veterinary laboratories; and if these bodies will include the IFA, the ICMSA, INHFA, VOA and Impact; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16759/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (28 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Irish draw-downs under the seafood processing capital investmen t scheme; the number of persons who availed of the scheme in increments (details supplied) in 2014, 2015 and 2016, in tabular form; the total amount that could have been drawn by Ireland in each of these years; and if he will make...
- Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (Resumed) (22 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: I became very aware of the issue of the Tuam mother and baby home during the election campaign this time last year. I was canvassing in an area and was told a woman in a house wanted to see me. I went down to see her and spent half an hour with her. She told me she had been born in Tuam. Her earliest memory of growing up was hunger and how all the other little children that were with her...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the school transport rate payable to a provider, per kilometre, per child; and the way this compares with the grant payable to parents to transport their children the same distance to school. [14330/17]
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Martin Kenny: I apologise for being late. Having read through the Minister's opening statement, I see he raised the marketing campaign of Bord Bia. I am very conscious that today the European Commission has banned imports into Europe of beef and meat products from four companies in Brazil.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Martin Kenny: Yes.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: As the Taoiseach will be aware, in the programme for Government there is a commitment to ensure that the Irish agrifood sector finds new markets and develops everywhere around the world. In recent days, we have an issue in regard to Brazilian beef and poultry. There is a scandal in that country where they find that there are many people being bribed and so on to allow substandard product be...
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: Yes, all meat products from Brazil until this is cleared up.
- Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: They are being breached.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (21 Mar 2017)
Martin Kenny: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) is not designated as a DEIS school. [13008/17]