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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Martin Kenny: I move amendment No. 14: In page 13, line 5, to delete “3 days” and substitute “48 hours”. I will withdraw this amendment, with leave to reintroduce it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Martin Kenny: Amendment No. 20 is around the issue of the risk management team and its communication with the victim in these cases. What is being proposed here is that there will be a written agreement whereby a particular member of the team will be nominated as a contact point for the victim. In the case where the offender has served a sentence and is about to be released or is being released that they...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Martin Kenny: I move amendment No. 20: In page 15, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “(4A) A member of a risk management team shall, with the express written agreement of the team, be nominated as a contact point for the victim in the case for which the offender has served the sentence which he or she is being released from. This team member will provide relevant information to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (7 Apr 2022)

Martin Kenny: 87. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on any engagement that he or his Department have had with the stakeholders affected by the job losses at a company (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18755/22]

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Martin Kenny: All of us understand and agree that this motion on carbon budgets is about setting the destination to which we want to get. We all share a common bond in our desire to get to that destination. Where we may have disagreements is in the route that we take. There are, of course, difficulties for many sectors when we get into this issue and try to deal with it. There are also opportunities...

Vacant Properties: Motion [Private Members] (6 Apr 2022)

Martin Kenny: Vacancy and dereliction are serious issues in rural Ireland. There is significant dereliction in every small town. Houses are lying empty and shops, pubs and other business premises in once-thriving communities are dying on their feet because of the changes in how people conduct their commerce. They now shop in big towns and so on. We have a huge problem with that in the private sector...

European Union Regulation: Motion (5 Apr 2022)

Martin Kenny: That is the wrong business.

European Union Regulation: Motion (5 Apr 2022)

Martin Kenny: This proposal is worthy and worthwhile. It will move us in the right direction. Joint investigation teams have been working for many years on a multinational format to tackle organised crime, particularly the drug gangs, etc., that plague our communities. Every community in every part of Ireland can recognise the impact that they have on young people, who become addicted to drugs and who...

Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I also welcome this plan today. It is certainly a decision to move in the right direction. As has been said by many others, we have had a chequered past in regard to women's health in this country. Hopefully, we can keep that in the past and ensure there is no reoccurrence of it. I particularly want to raise with the Minister today the issues in regard to menopause services,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (31 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: 106. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to establish another secure hospital for forensic patients; when the most recent comprehensive review into the National Forensic Mental Health Services was undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16213/22]

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: The idea of circular economy and waste management is certainly not new to most people who grew up in rural Ireland. My father worked all his life fixing farm machinery. My brother had what was basically a scrapyard. He took in old beaten-down cars. Everyone who had an old banger that they wanted to keep going would come to him. If the radiator had burst, they would get one from him. All...

Government Response to Situation in Ukraine: Statements (30 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I again express solidarity with the people of Ukraine for the turmoil the country has been put into and the vicious war that has been orchestrated from the Russian Federation which has cost the lives of so many and has scattered people all over the world. Some have come to Ireland. In my local community in County Leitrim, a Ukrainian neighbour of mine, Ivan Tarkovych, worked to get his...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: 71. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the roll-out of additional domestic violence refuge spaces. [16639/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I request a report from the Minister on the roll-out of additional domestic violence refuge spaces throughout the country. It is some time now since Ashling Murphy, unfortunately, was killed. That was a significant time in Ireland when people re-examined and looked again at this issue of violence against women everywhere throughout the country and in all its aspects, both in the home and in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister very much for her response. We understand this is an issue that is not just about the spaces, the bed and the roof over a person's head, or a family in many cases. It is more than just a woman who has to find refuge because it is often also her children. It is also about the services around them and ensuring there is both adequate space for them to recover from the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I appreciate what the Minister has said, that the strategy will be published in a matter of weeks, but we still do not know how to provide, for instance, for a woman who may be in crisis in County Leitrim tonight who has no service in that county or in any of the counties around her. That is the reality today. Is the State proposing to build or buy or look at existing Government-owned...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I understand that. Nobody wants cameras everywhere or for the whole country to be covered in them but there is a recognition that they have a key role to play. An Garda Síochána recognises that and so does the public. The slow and difficult roll-out of these schemes across the country has dented public confidence in the commitment of the Government to ensuring this is done. I...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: 69. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on community CCTV programmes. [16638/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I want to ask the Minister about the roll-out of community CCTV programmes across the country. In many rural areas it has been an issue. In County Sligo, an elderly man was recently attacked in his home. Many people said there is a need to have preventative measures around the country, one of which is, of course, CCTV, not just in rural areas but also in many urban areas where drug dealing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister. I acknowledge that some work on this has been done and progress has been made. However, we are all also aware of the difficult situations in some areas where CCTV cameras have been in place and people have been asked to take them down because they did not meet the standards required. They were installed with the very best of intentions. There have been also been...