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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting Driver Testers: Fórsa (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: Yes, or a rehash of the same. I appreciate that. The issue has been the continual use of people on a temporary basis. Permanent contracts need to be found for people for a whole range of reasons, including to allow them to plan their lives and have permanent employment. In many instances, we find when talking about such bodies as the RSA that they continually put it back on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for the work they did on the ICCA report. Clearly, the report will be an addition to the volumes of work we have to support our reliance on science to get movement on all of this. In general, there is agreement and consensus in these Houses that the climate crisis is real, must be dealt with and worked on. We may disagree sometimes on the details but in general...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: Yesterday evening I was canvassing. I was in a new build house with an air-to-water heat system. The occupants said they are in the house two years and they cannot believe it. Their cost of heating is lower than when they lived in a rented house, although the rented house was probably not as well insulated, etc. They had a really positive story to tell but many people only hear that such...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: 486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many hectares of land farmers applied for under the hay meadow measure in ACRES 2023; how many hectares of hay meadow his Department paid out to farmers under the ACRES measure for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17663/24]

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: When we talk about road safety the first thing we have to remember is that many families have been adversely affected by the large number of deaths in tragedies on our roads over the past year. In the first quarter of this year, as the Minister of State acknowledged, the figures have gone up again. This is a serious issue that we need to deal with. Policing is central to that, as the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. The survey brings a stark realisation to us all about the situation that people – workers in particular, but also ordinary travellers on services – have to cope with daily. The committee works on the issue of public transport constantly and we want more people to use it for a range of reasons, for example, climate change and how a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: We need to recognise that the travelling public and the people who work in the service cannot all be wrong. I welcome the report and concur with everything in it. The witnesses have had a long day in Leinster House. They will get Sinn Féin’s support and we will do everything we can in the campaign to ensure this happens.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: Yes. There is some work to be done in that regard. There are proposals for more investment in cross-Border rail services and there is the all-island rail review. As part of the work, we need to ensure that such services are frequent, affordable, reliable and safe. The witnesses’ colleagues in the other trade union representing rail workers, the NBRU, have campaigned on this matter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: The week before last there was an incident on the rail line between Dublin and Sligo, when a person had to be taken off. These incidents should be rare. They should be outliers and not common. That is the problem. They have become common.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: Absolutely not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: The policing side of it has been discussed, but the report is more about what has happened. Policing is one of the deterrents but there are probably other measures as well. In the context of technology, protective screens and all of that, is there also work to be done on some of our modes of transport that could be done an awful lot better? If somebody is feeling vulnerable in a carriage,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: We also want to see more services being available later at night for people in the night-time economy. All of that kicks in. If services are to be available at later hours, there will have to be better security and deterrents.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: No, that is fine.

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: First, I commend Deputy Cullinane on tabling this motion. We always recognise that many people in our communities and families have had the devastating news of a cancer diagnosis and have experienced the trauma of that. There is no family across the country that is not touched by that. Of course, we recognise that great work is being done by many people in our health service to try to make...

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: -----when the reality is in front of us. The Irish Cancer Society made it very clear; the reality is that the funding has not been put in place to deliver the cancer strategy that the Government - and the Minister of State supported the previous Government as well in 2017 - has put in place. We need to see this situation being resolved. Finally, we are calling on the Government to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide clarity on the summer works scheme for schools; when the scheme will open for 2024 applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16370/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide some clarity on the removal of funding for an ASD unit in a Leitrim school (details supplied) after physical accommodation was unable to be sourced. [16371/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (11 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: 22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can provide a breakdown of the number of Croí Cónaithe grants (including the vacant property refurbishment grant) paid out across Sligo and Leitrim since the beginning of the scheme. [15675/24]

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: I am very glad these hearings are happening. Anything that gives us an opportunity to speak about this and try to tease out the difficulties and how we can progress all of these projects is very welcome. Ultimately, we need to see the western rail corridor fully developed the whole way along. This is the ambition of the vast majority of people living in the west and we recognise this. We...