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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.

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: The budget and the huge underfunding in the HSE affects us all in every constituency around the country. The previous speaker mentioned that all of us are constituency Deputies. We all work with communities that are struggling, trying to survive and trying to manage. The head of the HSE, Bernard Gloster, recently made it plain that they simply cannot be expected to deliver an effective and...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: If they do not have a family to do it, what are they going to do? Should they sit in the cold? That is what the Minister of State is telling people; to sit in the cold if they cannot light a fire because nobody going to do it for them. It is absolutely ridiculous. That is the reality for people I know. A man in his nineties was told that if he could not light the fire, that was too bad....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the number of completed apprenticeships across counties Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal per year between 2018 to 2022 and to date in 2023; the support mechanisms that are in place to keep apprentices within the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45639/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Atlantic Technological University, Sligo has been approved for purpose-built student accommodation funded by his Department; if he will outline the process of a Higher Education Institution receiving approval to build student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45638/23]

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: We will be supporting this motion. I thank the Rural Independent Group for tabling it. Driver testing delays are affecting people all over the country. I am sure every Deputy from every constituency, rural and urban, has been contacted by people about huge delays and the huge difficulties faced by family members in getting tests. We had the representatives of the RSA and various...

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: New subheads do not cut it. The tragic reality is that people are dying on our roads and the Government is not doing enough to make roads safe and keep them safe for people. We recognise that the measures the Government talks about regarding road safety, such as decreasing speed limits, may be appropriate in some cases. However, there is too much emphasis on decreasing the speed limits....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Research Arena Event in April 2024: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: I second the proposal.