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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...

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

Martin Kenny: I move amendment No. 32:In page 26, to delete lines 26 to 30 and substitute the following:"Amendment of section 6 of Criminal Law (Rape) Act 1981 25.Section 6 of the Criminal Law (Rape) Act 1981 is amended—(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):"(3) Subsections (1) and (2) are without prejudice to the right of—(a) a parent, relative or friend of...

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

Martin Kenny: The only aspect of concern with regard to this amendment is towards the end of that sentence in subsection (8), which the amendment proposes to change to "appropriate, and where relevant specialist, service". Where it states "service", there should be the plural of "services" put in rather than the singular. In many cases, there may be a number of different agencies that a victim would have...

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

Martin Kenny: The removal of medical support would weaken the legislation. It states "where relevant". One could say "where applicable" also. Having listened to the Minister, I do not fully get his rationale. Ultimately, medical support, or at least advice on where it can be sought or provided, is one of the first things one would expect a member of An Garda to be offering in the circumstances in...

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

Martin Kenny: Amendments Nos. 1 to 41, inclusive.

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

Martin Kenny: Amendment No. 3 deals with the definition of restorative justice. The victims directive requires that safeguards must be put in place to protect victims from repeat victimisation and intimidation, and this should apply to any restorative justice service. A definition of restorative justice is needed in legislation.

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

Martin Kenny: It is recommended that any definition of restorative justice does not refer to the word "resolve" as it presupposes a resolution of matters and the wording may undermine the impact of the crime for the victim. For example, a restorative justice scheme could be used in serious cases involving homicide and rape. It would not necessarily be able to resolve matters arising from these crimes, but...

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: On page 89 of the programme for Government, in a section about education, it says that in three months the Government will commence a review of the teacher appointment thresholds in schools where there are four teachers or fewer. Kiltyclogher school in north Leitrim is a two teacher school. Next September, the numbers have fallen-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: This relates to the programme for Government, page 89.

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: Next September, the pupil enrolments in this school will fall one pupil below the threshold for a two-teacher school. The numbers are expected to recover the following year so that the school will have sufficient numbers to retain a second teacher. Allowing a situation to develop where Kilyclogher school would become a one-teacher school for that year could jeopardise enrolment numbers in...

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: There will be no time for anybody else.

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: There will be no time for anybody else to raise a matter.

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: No.

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Jul 2017)

Martin Kenny: One key issue dealt with in the programme for Government relates to rural post offices. The closure of many post offices in rural Ireland is something many fear. We were told that up to 500 post offices could have been on the edge last year. In fairness, the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, has done considerable work to get the Irish...