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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Minorities Engaging with the Justice System: Discussion (24 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: I thank Ms Keane for that response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Minorities Engaging with the Justice System: Discussion (24 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: I welcome all of the witnesses and thank them for their contributions and written statements. I will ask questions of the groups in the order they spoke. The Mental Health Commission raised some issues, including in respect of engagement with An Garda Síochána. It strikes me, and has long struck me, that many of the situations members of the Garda encounter involve individuals...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Minorities Engaging with the Justice System: Discussion (24 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: Regarding the migrant issue, particularly migrant women, I note at the end of Dr. Mbugua's presentation there is a reference to trafficked women and girls being used for sexual exploitation. What impact does that have on many people who would not have immigration status here? Basically, they are here illegally and that is being used as a means of coercion or control. Is there a fear in...

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: I was thinking earlier about this notion of moving from rhetoric to real policies. We all agree that is what we need to do. I remember being here for a debate on microgeneration, which I think was in 2016 during my first year in the Dáil. It was about people putting solar panels on the roofs of their homes, farmers putting them on the roofs of their sheds, selling it back to the grid...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (23 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: On the back of Deputy Tóibín's question, I wish to raise the issue of establishing a commission of investigation into the death of Shane O'Farrell. The scoping exercise into Shane's death has not yet been completed. In the Dáil four years ago, the Taoiseach, who was then in opposition, said: "In all honesty and sincerity, it is time the Oireachtas responded in the only way...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (23 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: I want to raise the issue of Catalonia and the Spanish Government’s continued pursual of politicians who led the Catalan referendum on independence. Spain continues to seek the arrests and prosecutions on political grounds, including that of Carles Puigdemont who is now an elected Member of the European Parliament. The decision of the Spanish Government in June of this year to pardon...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (23 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide information on his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and on the review of exemptions for educational and community buildings as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; if he will provide details of the stated need to consider...

Air Accident Investigation Unit Final Report into R116 air accident: Statements (17 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: All of us remember the circumstances and what we were doing when the news broke of the accident involving the aircraft Rescue 116 and, indeed, subsequently when it was discovered that Captain Dara Fitzpatrick, Captain Mark Duffy, winchman Ciarán Smith and winch operator Paul Ormsby died in the crash on 14 March 2017. All of us send our sympathies to their families and friends as part of...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: We feel this legislation is badly needed. Many of us, including the Minister, have been contacted by people in various solicitors' firms and by members of the public that have had major difficulties and problems with things that normally would have been undertaken with great ease in the past. The legislation in 2009 was mistaken in some of the things it tried to do. I look back and I try...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: Deputy Carroll MacNeill mentioned the Good Friday Agreement and I will go into the legislation on that. Parity of esteem and everything else was very carefully placed in the Good Friday Agreement. Some of that legislation has been enacted partially but a lot of it has yet to be enacted. One of the difficulties we have within the context of the Good Friday Agreement and the arrangements in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2021: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: I thank our guests for their opening statements and submissions. I want to go back for a moment to the hostility dimension and the aspect of the matter about which Dr. Taylor has spoken. One needs to be able to prove motivation and that is one of the key difficulties because proving motivation is the problem with all of this. It always struck me that one of the things we are dealing with...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: A number of years ago, I met ambulance staff in County Sligo and they told me the arrangement in place was what they called "dynamic deployment". One would think it was NATO on manoeuvres in the south Indian Ocean. However, it was code for fewer ambulances covering a wider area. It meant that ambulances from Sligo were spending a lot of their time going up to Letterkenny, perhaps over to...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: I welcome the Bill before the House. In many ways, it long overdue. While parts of it are quite technical, given the subject matter that is probably to be expected. I wish to take the opportunity to look in detail at the provisions in the Bill. Members of the public will be shocked that many of the current practices relating to sex offenders have not had the proper legal standing until...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (16 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister of State. I welcome the Minister of Justice back to the Chamber after what was a very successful ministerial event over the summer. I am sure we all congratulate the Minister. While she was well covered in her absence, she is most welcome back. On the legislation before the House, I, and my Sinn Féin colleagues, will be supporting the extension of the Civil...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: I raise today a consumer matter arising from Brexit. As the Taoiseach knows, many people at this time of year and throughout the pandemic have been ordering items online and having them delivered usually through .iewebsites. They find when they are about to receive the items, there is a huge charge placed on the order and the items are either held up in customs or somewhere else. We know...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Office of the Attorney General (16 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: 39. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a full account of each and every private client of the Attorney General during their time in office since June 2020; and the extent to which the Attorney General acted on behalf of or advised the directors or shareholders of a company (details supplied). [53526/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (16 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: 336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of the allocation of educational psychologists and behavioural therapists at a school (details supplied) in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021; her views on whether the allocation is sufficient to address the needs of children attending the school; her plans in place to address a potential lack...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Educational Psychological Service (16 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: 480. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the allocation of speech and language therapists and occupational therapists at a school (details supplied) in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021; his views on whether the allocation is sufficient to address the needs of children attending the school; his plans in place to address a potential lack of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: 526. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that are currently on the waiting list for early intervention services; the length of time they have they been on the waiting list in counties Sligo and Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55644/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Nov 2021)

Martin Kenny: 527. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant positions on the early intervention teams in counties Sligo and Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55645/21]