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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rehabilitative Opportunities within the Prison System: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: Is addiction, which many prisoners would have, a big problem in respect of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rehabilitative Opportunities within the Prison System: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: All of us are contacted frequently by people who have been victims of crime. They may have had their lives brutalised or experienced significant trauma. Often, when we engage in this format and discuss these issues, we get a kickback. Many people feel their lives have been destroyed. In other jurisdictions, and to some extent in this jurisdiction as well, the use of restorative justice as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rehabilitative Opportunities within the Prison System: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: Is one of the problems that restorative justice is so haphazard? Does it need to be more formalised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rehabilitative Opportunities within the Prison System: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: Mr. Graham is indicating.

Responsibility of Social Media Platforms (Defamation Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (24 Mar 2022)

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

Responsibility of Social Media Platforms (Defamation Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the law relating to defamation, in order to allow judgements of defamation be made against the social media platform on which the defamatory utterances were made when the social media platform in question is unable to produce the identity of the person who made the utterances, and to provide for related matters. I...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: It goes without saying that this legislation is welcome. It is a move in the right direction and long overdue. Assisted human reproduction is an area that badly needs a regulatory authority. That one will now be put in place is welcome. For many years, I have been in contact with a number of people who have experienced fertility issues. They have gone through considerable anguish and...

European Arrest Warrant (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I am sharing time with Deputies Ó Laoghaire and Ó Murchú. We welcome this legislation. Its introduction is timely, given it will transpose into Irish law an EU directive that has been around for some time. The EU in 2020 initiated infringement proceedings regarding the delay and it is unfortunate that we again find ourselves in this position. Another item of legislation...

Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan for bringing forward this legislation. It does exactly what we need to see happen. This practice is used as a gateway at times by very unscrupulous people to get young vulnerable women into prostitution. I visited UCD recently and met the sexual exploitation research programme there. What researchers told me about prostitution fits into what we are talking...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: 1060. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will request the HSE to review the travel expenses that public health nurses and community general nurses receive due to the increase in fuel prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14911/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. The essence of all this is how fast the issues and whole range of problems are changing and how online gambling has become the big problem we want to try to tackle. Is it going to be possible, even in the context of all this, to address that problem directly the way we need to address it? The fact is that it is global, international and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: Does that mean we would require some kind of international co-operation across the EU and maybe further afield to be able to make that happen in a way that would be effective?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: Our experience of Internet providers doing the right thing has not been very good in many places. I wonder how it would work in this situation or scenario. Apart from that, that is really what needs to happen. Mr. Grant is saying the Internet providers need to play a role in that. In addition to the difficulty we have online, we also have a similar problem with people who get into huge...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: Will the regulator be able to have control over that? Will it need to be able to ensure that level of oversight and intervention is happening? Will it have access to that information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: Does Dr. Reynolds think the proposals at the moment go far enough to do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I did not quite get finished the last time and I have a number of questions to ask.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Gambling Regulation Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: We had representatives of the gambling industry in here two weeks ago. They pointed out that a very small number of people who gamble go on to become problem gamblers and pointed out that it is a very tiny minority. I made the point that I very infrequently gamble. I buy the odd lottery ticket and I do not think that I have ever bet on a horse. There are hundreds of thousands of people...

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I am very glad to have the opportunity to speak on this Bill. Many people in my constituency have contacted me over the years after they got into serious difficulties dealing with moneylenders, including some of the companies that go around door-to-door offering loans to people. Usually these are vulnerable people in more poor circumstances and on working-class housing estates. An...

Proposal for a Council Decision on Hate Speech and Hate Crime: Motion (9 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: We have ten minutes but I understood that we had 15. Anyway, I thank the Minister. We have no difficulty in supporting this proposal. In the context of world politics and what we are seeing across the world, the concept of hate crime and hate speech affects all of us. We need to be very conscious of it. I was reading up on some of the issues and came across the report, Legislating for...