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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: Does the EPA flag or highlight specific solutions that are needed? For instance, if there is a problem in a particular region or waterway, does the EPA get to the stage where it says that if something is not done to improve the infrastructure which is causing this problem, it is going to court? Does that stick work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: When doing the tests and collecting and collating all the data, it can be clearly identified if there is a pollution problem in an area from an industrial, farming or human waste source. Every year, it is published that a certain number of septic tanks or one-off treatment plants around the country have been inspected and that a large proportion of them have failed. My understanding is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: We need to see enhanced biodiversity but we cannot have that without reduced intensity in farm practices. Is that statement generally true? On farm practices, in many areas such as the west of Ireland, in agri-forestry no field is bigger than 2 acres and has a large hedgerow around it. Farmers are frustrated that they do not get the recognition for what they naturally do. Nobody is asking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I want to ask about ACRES, which is the main scheme for the farming community from an environmental perspective. It is open to approximately 50,000 farmers. How many of these are in the dairy sector and other more intensive sectors? It is probably considered that the vast majority of farmers who go into these schemes are already operating at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: Are there no other measures to encourage more intensive farmers to enter the schemes? We know it is voluntary but can nothing else be done? Has the Department considered other measures to try to target more intensive operators? The issue as far as I can see is the more intensive farmers are creating the most difficulties, yet they are the ones not availing of the schemes. Can anything be...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: It is appropriate to recognise that last night there was another tragic death in Sligo, when a man on an e-scooter was killed. That brings the number of deaths on the roads this year to 155, which is the same number that we had for the entirety of last year. This is the tragedy that keeps coming at us. Every weekend or every couple of days, we hear of more people being killed on the roads....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: I want to raise the issue of disability services. Sooey National School is a small rural school about 13 km from Sligo town. The school has 117 pupils and for the last year or more it has been engaging with the National Council for Special Education with the intention of providing two autism spectrum disorder, ASD, classes because all of the ASD classes in Sligo town are full. The school...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: It has done that.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: Sooey National School.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: The roll number is on the letter.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (25 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: 53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of spending on public transport per capita for each county between 2017 and 2023, in tabular form. [46852/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (25 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: 188. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the spend on ambulance services across Sligo and Leitrim between 2017 and 2023, in tabular form. [46855/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister of State for his presentation. Some of the issues I wish to raise have been covered. Three main issues, namely, penalty points, speed limits and the intoxication test, are being addressed . There is no argument with regard to the intoxication test. The committee heard from An Garda on this. It showed us the tests and explained that the test for drugs is a more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: I accept that to an extent but I still do not see how varying penalty points at weekends will prevent a person who drives recklessly from driving recklessly. If people drive recklessly, they will have a tendency to do so and will continue to do it. Detection is the only thing that will make a difference. If the speed limit in an 80 km/h zone is reduced to 60 km/h, the kind of person who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: They are the 10% who cause the problem and if we cannot detect these people, and we are not detecting them-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: It is detecting fewer than it was previously.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: I still think our role in respect of all of this, when it comes road safety, is that people should proceed with caution and without undue haste. The same should be true when it comes to legislation. We should give it the proper scrutiny it deserves and get informed views from across the board. I accept the Minister of State's point that there is evidence about penalty points from one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: Fair play.

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: The situation we have in health and the reckless underfunding of the health budget this year will have an effect the length and breadth of the country, nowhere more so than in my constituency of Sligo-Leitrim. As we know, the hospitals all along the western seaboard from Donegal to Limerick and including Sligo are those that have some of the highest rates of people waiting on trolleys to be...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: The attitude of the Government seems to be that successful people do not need a health service. It is simply not good enough.