Results 3,601-3,620 of 3,998 for speaker:Martin Kenny
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Laboratory Facilities (28 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: 681. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will open the regional veterinary laboratory in Sligo after the review of the veterinary laboratories. [9957/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (28 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: 711. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the current vessel monitoring system reporting interval can be reduced from one to two hours to eight minutes to vessel tracking. [10338/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (28 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: 712. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if switching off the vessel monitoring system and automatic identification system is an offence; and the penalties that result following prosecution. [10339/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (28 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: 713. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number incidents of pot losses that have been reported to State agencies as a result of towing by larger vessels over the past five years. [10340/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (28 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: 714. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the State agency which has responsibilty to investigate the loss of static fishing gear caused by larger mobile, towed fishing gear. [10341/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (28 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: 715. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the mechanisms in place to facilitate fishermen seeking compensation for pots lost to large vessels. [10342/17]
- Rural Equality Bill 2017: First Stage (23 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Rural Equality Bill 2017: First Stage (23 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide that regard be had by public bodies to the desirability of reducing socio-economic and other inequalities suffered by those in rural Ireland, to provide for the carrying out of rural impact assessments in respect of measures that are likely to have a significant socio-economic impact or effect on rural Ireland and to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (23 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: I thank the Chairman and the committee for allowing me the opportunity to speak today. I am not a member of the committee but it is an issue about which I am highly concerned. Mr. Micheál Ó Giolláin is a neighbour of mine from Ballinamore and I am very conscious that MABS in Ballinamore, County Leitrim, has done tremendous work for many people down the years and I have worked...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (23 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: With regard to my question on the timescale, it was said the lifetime of the restructuring would be approximately 18 months. The two sentences that alarm me indicate there will be no closure of services, no change of location and no changes to the terms and conditions of staff during the lifetime of the restructuring programme. This infers there will be changes in all these areas after the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (23 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: Does Ms Mangan expect that regional managers will be put in place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (23 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: So eight regional managers will have to be employed and paid a salary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (23 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: Currently, the management is provided voluntarily by the boards-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (23 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: If the money is taken out of the same pool and eight regional managers are employed, there will be less money to pay the staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (23 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: There is no reason that the Money Advice & Budgeting Service, MABS, cannot have one system for all the staff but have them in separate companies for the payroll.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: On Monday morning, I met a group of parents of children with various disabilities to discuss child and adult mental health services, CAMHS, in Sligo. Last week, the senior child psychiatrist resigned. She had only been in the position for four months and I think her predecessor was in the position for even a shorter period. There has been chopping and changing for the past two years....
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: -----to stop her child self-harming. It is a very serious situation-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: -----and the Taoiseach's Government needs to take a handle on it and sort it out-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: -----because we are looking at a situation that will be a catastrophe if not resolved shortly.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Feb 2017)
Martin Kenny: The greyhound breeders are at the gates of Leinster House today because there is a crisis. This House voted to give €16 million to the Greyhound Breeders Association a couple of weeks ago. We were the only party that voted against that because we saw this crisis coming. This is a crisis that has been ongoing for a long time and we need to ensure that something is done immediately to...