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Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) (Pets) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...not be opposing the Bill either. We see the merits of it and the direction it intends to travel. I think all of us acknowledge the love and compassion people can have for a pet and especially for a dog. We have Rua and Seoda, two large Irish wolfhounds, at home. They are certainly something all in our house care very deeply for. It is the same across the country for people who have...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...reform is needed. A common issue we come across in rural areas is a trespasser on somebody's land using it for recreational use. We are talking about walkers, hillwalkers and people walking their dogs and the danger they may experience or cause to other people who are there, including the owner of the property. I would like more detail regarding how this change will impact on that. ...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...on them, we will be left with a situation where matters continue to get worse. That is the experience of the vast majority of people across the country. The Government has a choice to make. I hear the dog whistles about objections to houses. In the town of Ballinamore in my constituency, there is a little housing estate called Lahard. It is an old, county council housing estate,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issue of Abuse of Greyhounds: Bord na gCon (9 Jul 2019)

Martin Kenny: ...industry because we have been hearing for a while that there were issues. I will go through some of the details. The issue may already have been dealt with but I want to ask about the number of dogs that are bred and never run. The number of pups involved is considerable. Whose job is it to monitor that? Who is failing to do their job? I also want to ask about the use of substances...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issue of Abuse of Greyhounds: Bord na gCon (9 Jul 2019)

Martin Kenny: Has Mr. Nyhan a response on the dogs in Pakistan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issue of Abuse of Greyhounds: Irish Coursing Club (9 Jul 2019)

Martin Kenny: ...the ICC "wants to put in place a better traceability system which will be linked on an all-island basis and also with the Greyhound Board of Great Britain". An issue that featured in the programme was dogs without ears, where they had been cut off the dog. If a large volume of blood testing is ongoing and the tests are being sent away, is it possible that tracing be done there to match...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Water Pollution) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (20 Jun 2019)

Martin Kenny: ...approximately 80% of the soil is dense. Anyone who goes to a funeral in County Leitrim and looks into a graveyard can see that six inches down we have good soil but when we look below that we have dog heavy soil. That is what we find in much of County Leitrim. In west Cavan we have a similar situation, but west Cavan has considerable mountainous areas and we do not have as many planning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare and the Control and Management of Horses: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Martin Kenny: ...energy into trying to clean up the mess, more energy should go into finding the problem before it becomes an even bigger problem and then trying to deal with it. The issue raised in regard to dogs is a similar one. Approximately half of the dogs in the country are licensed, or perhaps less than half. That is clearly the problem. We then have issues of sheep being killed in various...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Indemnity Scheme for Landowners (29 May 2019)

Martin Kenny: ...Labradors would jump out and away they would go. Some kind of rule need to be in place. Most of this is happening in mountainous areas where there are sheep. The landowners are concerned that dogs are worrying their sheep. The dogs may not attack the sheep, but that they are there barking and howling and running up and down through what is essentially open countryside is causing a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: ...on their vet. If anything goes wrong on the farm, one lifts the phone and rings the vet and he or she is there. There is no messing. A neighbour of mine said recently that he brought his dog to the vet and the dog got more tests done in half an hour than one would hope to get in three years in a hospital due to the waiting times. That type of service must be acknowledged. I share...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (7 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: ...the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to issues regarding farm insurance that farmers are unable to attain cover for livestock other than sheep that are worried or attacked by dogs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6091/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (7 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to issues regarding farm insurance by which insurance companies are refusing to provide cover for working dogs over five years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6097/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (7 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: ...his attention has been drawn to the fact that insurance companies are refusing to provide insurance cover to farmers for worrying of livestock other that sheep, theft of livestock and for working dogs over five years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6096/19]

Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Feb 2019)

Martin Kenny: ...in the past has been that things did not work. This was acknowledged by the need to commission the Indecon report in the first place and the Morris report of 2015 which examined the doping of dogs. All of that brought home to people the significant problem in the greyhound industry and highlighted what was happening on tracks. A company based near me does significant work on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Leader Programmes Expenditure (21 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: As the Minister is aware the new Leader programme that began in 2014 and ends in 2020 had a long delay in getting off the ground. It came on stream in 2016 but it has been dogged with huge amounts of bureaucracy and problems for communities that are trying to apply for funding. It seems to be turning into a real mess. We only have two years of the programme left to run. How much money has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2017: Motion (21 Nov 2017)

Martin Kenny: ...and operated. I know that the Minister and others have acknowledged the difficulties, to put it mildly, that exist in these organisations. Situations like the one we saw recently involving the doping of dogs keep coming up all of the time. There is a sense of despair. I spoke to a number of people in that industry the other day and they were still of the view that little is changing....

Animal Welfare: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2017)

Martin Kenny: ..., that it is as big an issue as it was in the past. That said, it still needs to be dealt with and appropriate measures need to be put in place. When I was growing up at home, we always had a dog and he was always the first to welcome us home. It did not matter what state we came home in, be it good humour or bad, the dog was always in great humour. The tail was wagging and he was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2017)

Martin Kenny: ...details how it works closely with the British greyhound industry because there is so much cross-over. However, we find that the British greyhound industry was issuing diktats recently to say that dogs coming from Ireland could not be trusted because there were doping issues there. How does that work? The British greyhound industry has its rules of racing, which is a pretty heavy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Greyhound Industry Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2017)

Martin Kenny: How does Mr. Frank Nyhan explain the situation where the British greyhound board will not allow Irish dogs to race there?