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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...not sure whether they have appeared before this committee on the issue, although they may have. We recognise that this is an ongoing issue, one that has not just affected workers, but hurt them and destroyed their livelihoods. People have had to retire from their jobs because of this. We all acknowledge that.

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...large loans they were unable to meet. Banks and financial institutions put huge pressure on individuals and small businesses and left them in a situation where they practically bankrupted them and destroyed their lives. As the Minister knows, many people were in serious distress to the stage their mental heath suffered seriously as a consequence. I believe we now have an obligation, in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Weather Events (13 Dec 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...one of those cars. Had it been facing the other way, she would certainly have been killed. It was a very dangerous situation. The tornado cut a track of about 30 or 40 metres through the village and destroyed practically everything in its path. It also tracked along the river into the harbour area. Boats were upturned along the jetties. The tornado caused devastation everywhere it...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: ..., who I am sure had a pretty sleepless night on Thursday trying to deal with it all. We need to get a reassurance that there is not going to be an impact on services, that the property that was destroyed, the buses and trams and all of that, will be replaced rapidly and that services will come back as quickly as possible.

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

Martin Kenny: ...the HSE and does not bring extra money to it in a situation where it is already in crisis tells me that he is not serious about doing the job he is in the position to do and that he wants to destroy the health system for some other agenda, whatever it may be. This is the only conclusion that the majority of people can come to.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Martin Kenny: ..., that young graduates and young millennials are leaving the Emerald Isle for greener pastures. But this time they are leaving on account of a housing crisis exacerbated by inflation, which is destroying their future prospects. That is the message that is being beamed out across every country in Europe regarding the Minister's housing policy. The Minister has been in power and...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...hit her on the road and she waited for an hour and a half before an ambulance came, yet there is supposed to be an ambulance station in the town. This causes people stress and inconvenience. It destroys their confidence that we will have a health service that can deliver for people. At Sligo University Hospital and every other hospital in the country queues of ambulances build up...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...me of situations where they are called to an incident and they know they need at least four or five personnel but they only have two. The two arrive, are abused and attacked, and are not able to manage the situation. It destroys their morale, competence and capability to be able to react to similar situations. I think the primary issue is in regard to recruitment and retention. I...

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...stalking, we have experienced that it can be the case that they do not realise the lengths to which the stalker goes until they are middle of the Garda investigation. Stalking behaviour absolutely destroys the lives of victims in many of these cases. The victim is often forced to move house and change jobs. In some instances, their families and friends also fall victim to this...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...not the situation. There are five other tenants in the same estate with the same problem. It is happening across the country where unscrupulous landlords are pushing rents through the roof and it is destroying people's lives.

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (25 May 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...the amount of milk produced in the North that comes South to be processed. If this protocol is taken away and we are back to a situation in which there would be checks on the Border, it would destroy that industry. So many other industries would be destroyed because of it. Yet, the tiny minority in the higher echelons of unionism insist that they want their way, and it is their way or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Rehabilitative Opportunities within the Prison System: Discussion (29 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...may have had their lives brutalised or experienced significant trauma. Often, when we engage in this format and discuss these issues, we get a kickback. Many people feel their lives have been destroyed. In other jurisdictions, and to some extent in this jurisdiction as well, the use of restorative justice as a process has helped victims in this regard. What positive impacts can that...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 – Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 – Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...of bringing that up to the standard that we need to protect people who have mental health problems, end up before the courts system and often end up in jail, where they should not be at all. It compounds their condition and destroys their lives, in effect, in many cases. It is a real issue that we need to look at. The other issue I wish to raise concerns the crime prevention measures....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...It is very clear that the DUP, for some very narrow and nationalistic reason of its own, and the Tory Party in Britain have for some time had a hyped-up agenda to do everything they possibly can to destroy the protocol. I even saw the DUP today talk about how the protocol was costing millions of euro per day to businesses in the North. I know that the Minister, Deputy Coveney, and I and...

Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Sep 2021)

Martin Kenny: .... In this country, there is a great deal of politics around energy, so we need to recognise that we must reach a consensus. We have already discovered more oil and gas in the world than would destroy the world if we burned it all. There is no point in looking for more anywhere or taking more out of the ground because doing so would destroy the environment. Instead, we need to come...

Garda Siochana (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Martin Kenny: ...needs to be made to ensure that we not only have gardaí on the street and part of the community, but that we also have specialised units that target where those drug gangs are operating and what they are doing to destroy communities. These gangs are not just in built-up urban areas. We might think of Dublin, Drogheda, Dundalk and the like that have clear problems, but these problems...

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Martin Kenny: ...on ensuring we deliver for the people who make their living from the sea so they can see this is about protecting their livelihoods and protecting this natural resource and making sure we do not destroy it for future generations. The ecology of the ocean is as much a part of making sure we protect ourselves from climate change and everything else as what we do on land, and perhaps it is...

Flood Prevention Policies: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2020)

Martin Kenny: ...attention in order to relieve the rest. There are issues in the Drumcliff area of north Sligo. Problems arose there around the end of June last year, with flash flooding and houses practically destroyed. In one case, debris was washed down a river and blocked an eye of a bridge entirely. It had three eyes originally, but now there are only two. The county council has stated that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Parole Boards (22 Oct 2020)

Martin Kenny: ...issues to be dealt with, funding had to be put in place and so on. At the same time, people who are the victims of very serious crime are fearful that the perpetrators who caused huge damage and destroyed their lives are eligible for parole, in many cases after seven years, and they have big issues and concerns around all of that. Having passed the Act through the Houses with the issues...