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- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: I raise the dermatology service in Sligo University Hospital. I was written to by Dr. Dermot McKenna, a consultant dermatologist. He informed us he was taking leave until the middle of July and no locum had been put in place to replace him during the period. It is a service that is under extreme stress. There are over 3,000 patients in the Sligo area waiting for new dermatological...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: It is under serious pressure and we need action-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: -----to ensure services are put in place.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: It is an example of-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: -----the north west being left behind again.
- Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: My constituency runs along the border of Sligo-Leitrim into south Donegal. The people in Kiltyclogher and Cashel are the same people. People in some parts of Ireland do not understand that. They are related to each other. They are the same people in every way. Their farms straddle the Border. We all understand that yet this artificial division made on the island of Ireland almost 100...
- Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025) Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. I will probably chop and change a little bit between the sections but there are a couple of issues there. As the Minister mentioned, we had his officials in from the Department and from the TB forum in regard to TB. It is a fairly major section of this. The Minister mentioned this and how he is prepared to discuss it in more detail. One of...
- Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025) Martin Kenny: Is the model of farming we have in Ireland going to make it more difficult? Countries where it has been successful have a different model, and that is where I think we have to acknowledge-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: I propose four minutes per member to allow everyone to get in, in case members go over time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: We have indicated already.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: It could be 40% in some areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: That suggests that badgers are a carrier in those areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: The fact that we have a grass-fed system and free roaming animals, unlike in other countries where cattle are more housed, is probably one of the reasons wildlife is a bigger factor. We are not going to change that system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: It is obviously not going to change. The result of the testing and all of the work that has been done up to now and the suggestions coming forward from the forum is that we should basically do more of the same in a more effective way. That is basically what the Department is talking about trying to do. I am interested in teasing out the evidence that this will work considering the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: Is there the same level of movement of cattle from farm to farm in New Zealand?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: There is not the model of farmers going to the marts to sell the cattle to another farmer. In general, everything is done within the same farm before the cattle go to the factory. That is the difference as I understand it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: That level of trade is one of the things the Department has mentioned. The movement of cattle with undetected infection is one of the big issues. One of the proposals that has been talked about, which Deputy Danny Healy-Rae has mentioned, is a screen up in the mart. Naturally enough, many farmers fear that this would label them as being a problem farmer. We need to recognise that. Many...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: I have one final point. It was mentioned earlier that we are able to vaccinate cattle in the same way we vaccinate humans. I absolutely understand the issues with marketing the product abroad if that were to be done but are there any examples of models in other countries where animals are vaccinated but are still accepted to market? Has any scenario in which that could happen been worked...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: I thank all of the witnesses for their contributions. I read their opening statements. The key thing I get from the discussion is that there is a great focus on wildlife. Naturally, farmers are going to look to that as one of the key issues. However, from what I hear, the Department is saying that there are 50 times more cattle in the country than badgers. The number of cattle in which...
- Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)
Martin Kenny: I listened intensely to the Minister's speech and one of the things that always strikes me is the Government seems to believe what it is doing is working. Do those in government not talk to their constituents and meet people, including the families who have elderly people living in their accommodation with them because they were put out of the places they were renting? Have they not spoken...