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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Book Sales (8 Jun 2016)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister, and I congratulate him and the Minister of State on their appointments. This issue cuts across many of the things that affect people the length and breadth of rural Ireland. Many people are in significant debt, aside from those in the agricultural sector. A lot of this debt, which may put large amounts of farmland under the hammer and allow it to fall into the hands...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Book Sales (8 Jun 2016)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister. I am glad to hear that, but many farmers are concerned that when loans are sold to entities outside the State they may not come under the same control and regulation as pertains to banks registered in the State. The Minister is quite correct that many loans were generated from off-farm activities. I am aware of a farmer who had some money in his local bank during...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Book Sales (8 Jun 2016)

Martin Kenny: 47. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the consequences for Irish farming of the sale by a bank (details supplied) of €100 million of agricultural loans to vulture funds, thereby removing this land from the control of Irish farmers; if he has met the bank to discuss this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14833/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Milk Quota (8 Jun 2016)

Martin Kenny: 63. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to intercede and have the European Union postpone Super Levy fines and increase the intervention price to at least the cost of production, given that Irish farmers are experiencing a severe cash flow crisis due to the ongoing crisis in the dairy sector. [14501/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (8 Jun 2016)

Martin Kenny: 468. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on priority waiting lists for home help hours in the north Leitrim area; the number of hours which would be necessary to provide home help to these persons; the number of home helps employed by the HSE in the area; and the number of hours of home help they are providing now. [14756/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (8 Jun 2016)

Martin Kenny: 469. To ask the Minister for Health if the allocation of home help hours in the north Leitrim area is based on need and not on budgetary constraints. [14757/16]

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (2 Jun 2016)

Martin Kenny: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development Act 1960 to ban unconventional gas exploration and extraction, provide for social clauses and public consultation on the granting of leases and ensure greater accountability through initiating an annual review of the lease by an Oireachtas Joint Committee.

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (2 Jun 2016)

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

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 May 2016)

Martin Kenny: 806. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of County Leitrim under forestry. [13212/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 May 2016)

Martin Kenny: 807. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the target for forestry planting in County Leitrim; and if his Department has a county by county or regional target for afforestation. [13213/16]

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan-Monaghan Division of An Garda Síochána) Report: Statements (Resumed) (26 May 2016)

Martin Kenny: I have not mentioned an individual.

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan-Monaghan Division of An Garda Síochána) Report: Statements (Resumed) (26 May 2016)

Martin Kenny: I will not mention individuals; I have referred to incidents only.

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan-Monaghan Division of An Garda Síochána) Report: Statements (Resumed) (26 May 2016)

Martin Kenny: It is alleged that senior officers have reprimanded gardaí who have tried to investigate or raise concerns about criminal activity, including drugs offences, breaches of bail conditions and firearms offences. It is also alleged that senior gardaí in Leitrim have been engaged in aggressive and vindictive behaviour towards other members of the Garda and that abuses of positions of...

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan-Monaghan Division of An Garda Síochána) Report: Statements (Resumed) (26 May 2016)

Martin Kenny: The reality is that malpractice is not confined to Cavan-Monaghan, which the O’Higgins report deals with, or indeed to Donegal where investigations were held in the past. At the outset, I want to state clearly that in my area of Leitrim, as in other places, the vast majority of gardaí are doing their job honestly and diligently. I intend to use this debate to raise issues of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme (25 May 2016)

Martin Kenny: 180. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of an additional 500 places on the rural social scheme. [12233/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme (25 May 2016)

Martin Kenny: 213. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of restoring farm assist to pre-2013 conditions of payment based on current numbers and allowances. [12229/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grassland Sheep Scheme Expenditure (25 May 2016)

Martin Kenny: 333. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of paying a ewe premium of €10 per head where stocking density is over six ewes per hectare and €20 where there is a stocking density of five ewes or fewer per hectare. [12225/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grassland Sheep Scheme Expenditure (25 May 2016)

Martin Kenny: 335. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of the re-introduction in 2017 of the sheep grassland scheme based on current stocking rates and numbers in the national flock. [12227/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Grassland Sheep Scheme Expenditure (25 May 2016)

Martin Kenny: 334. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost to the Exchequer of the sheep grassland scheme in 2012, 2013 and 2014. [12226/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Census (25 May 2016)

Martin Kenny: 336. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the national flock and the ratio of upland and lowland numbers. [12228/16]