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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Retail Sector Report: Discussion with RGDATA (12 Mar 2013)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the witnesses from RGDATA. I fully accept and understand the importance of local small businesses, particularly family owned businesses, which are very much the heart of small towns. We have heard many stories, and Senators Mullins and Quinn spoke about what happens in some towns. A chamber of commerce in my constituency urged the local authority to introduce paid parking because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland's Role in the Future of the European Union: Discussion (7 Mar 2013)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Dublin MEPs to the committee. Some very interesting and thought-provoking comments have been made. The issue of the common EU defence policy should be debated. I agree with Gay Mitchell's comments on the developing world. With the election of a new Pope, there may be a change in the church teaching on contraception and with reduced family size, the economic problems...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2013 (7 Mar 2013)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to enabling a citizen who is experiencing financial difficulties to access previously made pension contributions in a similar manner to the access being granted by the Finance Bill to AVC funds for the sole purpose of alleviating a mortgage arrears problem. [12273/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Provision (7 Mar 2013)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider amending current FÁS stipulations which are preventing job-seeking persons who worked in the construction industry but who are not qualified plumbers, from receiving the financial assistance required to undertake up-skilling courses that would permit job-seekers from availing of the opportunities that will arise from the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Provision (7 Mar 2013)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm if the feasibility of using the existing electricity grid network for the provision of broadband internet services has been examined; if so if his policy favours the use of using such technology to bring broadband internet access to remote locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12275/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (7 Mar 2013)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the progress, if any, of his request that his Department work with the registration body as envisaged under the Building Control Act and the proposed Building Control Amendment Regulations to ensure that those working as architects, with many years of experience, are not excluded from the professions...

Health Insurance: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Mar 2013)

Seán Kyne: Up until a few short years ago, throwing money at the health care system was viewed as the solution to its challenges and ills. We now know that this approach did not have the desired effect and in reality, ignored the root causes of problems in our health care system. If there is anything at all positive about financial constraints it is that they force a new approach and a re-evaluation...

Topical Issues: Fish Farming (5 Mar 2013)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Minister for his reply, although I appreciate that it is constrained due to the active nature of the application. I appreciate that the Minister cannot comment on the ins and outs of the application. Unfortunately, however, there is widespread concern in the locality about this matter. The responses to the queries pertaining to the application from BIM should be published. All...

Topical Issues: Fish Farming (5 Mar 2013)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for selecting this Topical Issue matter. I welcome the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Coveney, to the Chamber to debate this very important issue. I appreciate the very heavy workload he has at present with regard to CAP reform in Brussels, and I appreciate him taking the time for this matter. I accept the bona fides of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Díospóireacht le Daoine Óga (5 Mar 2013)

Seán Kyne: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh agus tá fáilte romhaibh go léir anseo go dtí an Chomhchoiste Comhshaoil, Chultúir agus Gaeltachta agus tá fáilte roimh na páistí agus daoine óga ó Bhaile Átha Cliath, Corcaigh agus go mór mhór ó Choláiste Cholmcille Indreabhán i mo dháilcheantar féin i nGaillimh...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (5 Mar 2013)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of Section 20 of the Finance Bill which extends the tax-relief for the film industry, consideration will be given to extending such relief to the electronic gaming industry so as to encourage indigenous entrepreneurship which would compliment the multi-national presence in Galway and Dublin among other locations. [11611/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes (5 Mar 2013)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if invalidity pension is an eligible scheme for qualifying for a springboard course and if not, whether it can be included in view of the fact that its allowance-based counterpart, disability allowance, is an eligible scheme. [11610/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Mar 2013)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the replacement scheme for pre-fabs that his Department is operating. [11609/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Mar 2013)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a 13 year old prefab, in poor condition, owned by his Department will be considered for replacement under a prefab replacement programme even though no rent is being paid on same, this prefab is situated in a school (details supplied) in County Galway which has planning permission for a permanent classroom extension. [11617/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Activation Projects (5 Mar 2013)

Seán Kyne: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on the progress of the 14 disability activation projects in operation in the BMW region; if she would confirm the locations of the projects; and if there are plans to extend this initiative in view of the benefits which accrue in helping persons with a disability back into the workforce. [11612/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland's Role in the Future of the European Union: Discussion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the witnesses and apologise for my late arrival, which meant I missed Ms Cahill's contribution. Mr. O'Brien made reference to the percentage of people who believe the EU is good for us. If I have heard the question once, I have heard it a thousand times: who is running the country, ourselves or Europe? As a Government Deputy I hear that a lot, and at times no amount of...

Further Education and Training Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Kyne: I am delighted to speak on this important Bill, the main provision of which is the establishment of SOLAS and the dissolution of FÁS, and the transfer of the staff and property of the FÁS training division to the newly formed education and training boards. The recent Central Statistics Office, CSO, figures are important and indicative that we, as a nation, are on the right path in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) with UFA and IFA (26 Feb 2013)

Seán Kyne: I have one short question in regard to active and inactive farmers, about which there appears to be some confusion. Dormant shareholders are not claiming anything under the single payment scheme. In regard to all other farmers claiming the single payment who have commonage but do not have sheep on it, is Mr. Bryan saying that the Commission would query whether they should be paid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) with UFA and IFA (26 Feb 2013)

Seán Kyne: If the commonage is in good agricultural and environmental condition and is owned by a small number of individuals who are not for reasons of age and so on-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Use of Commonage Lands: Discussion (Resumed) with UFA and IFA (26 Feb 2013)

Seán Kyne: No, not farming the commonage.