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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (7 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: 160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that the village of Cloone, County Leitrim is not included in the National Broadband Plan, despite a number of queries from local residents who work remotely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47979/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (7 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: 161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has engaged with stakeholders on a strategy to improve mobile phone coverage for those in the village of Cloone, County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47980/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (7 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: 221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has any plans to undertake a review of the current Local Link morning service to a school (details supplied), with a view to increasing the frequency of the service due to the high level of demand from students in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47562/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: 1387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to introduce a dedicated local transport link to service colleges of further or higher education in the Sligo or Leitrim area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47563/23]

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 opening statements. Much of the discussion has, naturally enough, focused on farming and agriculture, due to the issues around that. As the witnesses clearly outlined, it is the largest area we need to try to deal with. I come from the Sligo-Leitrim constituency and nitrates are not the issue for the vast majority of farmers in that area. They are low...

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-----