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Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: ...has previously stated that believes too money is being wasted in the administration of delivery of Leader funding. It should not be forgotten that it was a former Fine Gael Minister, Phil Hogan, who destroyed the functional and operational procedures of some of the best LEADER companies. I know that Mr. Hogan mentioned that there were some places where LEADER funding was not being...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: ...been retested, she was okay and got away with a fine. She said she had learned her lesson. There are many people who will find themselves in a similar position. We need to give people a chance and not destroy their lives. We should also not seek to destroy the lives of people living in rural areas. Mental health is a big issue in the context of this legislation, particularly for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)

Kevin O'Keeffe: ...by some road users. Putting in a couple of hard speed ramps in Fermoy may be of assistance. I was last week contacted by hauliers who claimed that the axles of their lorries are being destroyed by ramps but that has not stopped them and they are still going through the town of Fermoy.

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: .... I thought it was a step in the right direction, because I believed that in rural Ireland and in towns there was a discrepancy with regard to the balance of power and spending. The Minister destroyed all the positive aspects of that when he diluted the representation in the areas. Now, we have little representation. As I said earlier, I have a parochial issue that is totally at...

Topical Issue Debate: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2017)

Kevin O'Keeffe: ...trainer and the higher calibre of race. It is unlikely that they will now be able to handle or cater for the influx of extra races coming from Harold's Cross. This results in livelihoods being destroyed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effect of Bad Weather on Grain Harvest: Irish Farmers Association (6 Dec 2016)

Kevin O'Keeffe: ...this issue for almost ten months. Farmers in Whitegate and Churchtown South in my constituency have taken a double hit with crop damage. As Mr. O'Regan said, a sea mist created a salt drift and destroyed the crop. These farmers replanted most of these fields again with a spring crop and were prepared to take a hit with reduced yields, but there was more bad weather and, therefore, they...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compensation Schemes (11 Oct 2016)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which compensation paid to vegetable farmers whose crops were destroyed by the cold snap of late 2009 and early 2010 was in accordance with EU state aid rules; if he will now apply the same criteria to tillage farmers on the south coast of Cork, who suffered winter barley crop losses in late 2015 and early 2016 as a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Severe Weather Events Response (14 Apr 2016)

Kevin O'Keeffe: ...he recognises that the same weather cycle that caused flood damage and loss of fodder to farmers was also responsible for creating the excessive sea mist from which the salt-drift arose and in turn destroyed the winter barley crops along the south coast; if he will investigate this and pay compensation to the farmers affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7201/16]