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Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: The issue of crime is something that is feared as much as anything else across many parts of rural Ireland in particular and in my constituency. We saw today that three people have pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the desperate attack on Tom Niland, an elderly man living alone in a rural area who was set upon, badly beaten and subsequently passed away. The fear that kind of situation...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I raise the issue of serious problems in our mental health services, particularly in acute mental health services. I will raise the individual case of a young man in Sligo who was murdered. His name was Jimmy Loughlin. The person who committed the murder was somebody in the care of the mental health services. When incidents like this happen the HSE is meant to carry out what is known as a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I wrote to the Taoiseach three times.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that all children who meet the criteria for a special needs class will get a place in a special needs class in September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38426/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a new primary school for Carrick on Shannon; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38425/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for attending and for all their work on all of this. I will get to the point on a number of the issues. The key discussion today is about ash dieback and the impact it has had. The Minister of State mentioned the climate performance action payment of €5,000 per hectare to ash plantation owners. Is that for clearing the timber that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: Please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: How much?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: The first cases of ash dieback were found near where I live, in a hedgerow near Ballinamore, County Leitrim. Since then, it has spread throughout the entire country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: No, it was before that, I think.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: The people who were affected by that, in the years afterwards, were fighting with the Department to try to get something to happen, to try to resolve the issue, etc. What is the position of those people now? They applied before and found the schemes they applied for came nowhere near what was adequate. What should they do now? Is the Minister of State saying they have to reapply?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: Is the €5,000 per hectare for tree planting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: The Minister of State said there was €2,000 for clearance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: It is €10,000 per hectare now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: It is important we get clarity. The Minister of State is saying that people who applied in the past and got the initial payment, which was not adequate and they found they had been hugely short-changed - they had cleared 20 ha of forestry and found they were debt because of that - can get an additional €5,000 for the hectares they cleared in the past.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: Another issue is that many of those people could not replant their land for ten years because there was no scheme which was efficient enough for them to do so. They have therefore lost ten years. That is another aspect that needs to be considered. When people go to replant, what kind of trees can they plant? They cleared a hardwood. Do they have to plant a hardwood in its place or can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: Could they restore the land to arable farmland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: That is the case even though it is good land.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: However, they will spend it on replanting it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Martin Kenny: They still have to spend it.