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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: It is very unsatisfactory, is it not? Certainly for the people who live in those areas, it is very unsatisfactory.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: The other issue I want to come in on is the Eir situation specifically and similar types of situations. One of the issues that arose in that regard was that people being trained in the provision of customer care and so on were given instructions which were outside of what would be considered the regulations. People were being told that unless a caller mentions ComReg or knows their rights,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I know after that the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: A press release from Eir suggested that its training manual had been misinterpreted and the slides did not say what was claimed. Does that stand up? Why do they exist if they were not being used?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: It is quite unusual when anyone goes to court and has a negative finding for them to come out later and say the judge made a mistake. That is pretty much what Eir is saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I certainly hope that at some point Eir will appear before the committee and we will get clarity about what is the situation.

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I wish to raise two issues in respect of this matter with the Minister. I welcomed the Minister to County Leitrim yesterday. We had a good morning there and several housing projects were opened in Drumshanbo and Ballinamore. It was welcome and excellent to see it happen. We need to see more of it throughout the country. That is the real problem. I want to make a point that is often...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: It is a local authority.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Seventy-nine people have died on our roads so far this year. It is a heartbreaking and frightening number. A third of those people were under the age of 25. That is a figure that strikes fear, particularly for parents, throughout the country. The two main contributors to this terrible statistic are driving under the influence and speed. We have seen the advertisements and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I am sure the Taoiseach remembers the early instalments of Harry Potter when he lived under the stairs in a little alcove. When I see this particular topic of well-being framework, it reminded me of that because yesterday we were in Ballinamore and Drumshambo in County Leitrim with the Minister for housing opening some new houses. One of the houses I visited was that of a family there that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I wish to raise two issues. The Abbey Manor Hotel in Dromahair in County Leitrim received some international protection applicants in recent months. More have come in the past week. The families have been accepted by everyone and I have every confidence that they will be integrated into the community, but the problem that arises wherever people arrive is one of ensuring we have adequate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I will follow on from Deputy Bruton’s question about the brown bins and the amount of organic waste that is going into the wrong bins. Has an analysis been done on why that is? Is it an education problem? Is it the case that the people do not understand? Is it just carelessness? What is the position there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Is it the same in the restaurant sector, which is one of the areas where much of this is happening? Has an analysis been conducted on where this food waste is coming from? Is it being generated in the kitchen? Are people getting portions that are too large, do not finish them, leave a lot on their plates, and that then ends up in the bins? What is the situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy in the Food Sector: Discussion (21 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Ms McCoole is saying the focus is to change the habit we have generated in this country for many years of the weekly shop, whereby people go out and fill the trolley and probably end up with a large proportion of it wasted. As regards other countries, someone who lived in France told me everybody shops every day for that day. They just buy what they need for that day. That is the culture...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank Deputy Ó Cuív for the question. My interest is also in the western rail corridor. The Minister mentioned freight being part of it and that the analysis around all of that may bring that economic argument across the line. I feel another problem we have with it is that when an analysis is done of passenger numbers, it is done in much too narrow a scope. For instance, when...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Again, it is wait and see. We really need to see progress being made on all these issues and we have not.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Go raibh maith agat.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (16 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: 54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of his Department’s plans for upgrading the transport infrastructure around Dublin Airport and its environs. [22231/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (16 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: Will the Minister outline his plans for upgrading the transport infrastructure around Dublin Airport and its environs? We see a situation there, unfortunately, where we are entering the summer period when the airport will get busier and there are very few options for people to come and go from there. There is no rail infrastructure linking to it. There are buses, which are very often...