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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: .... The question was asked of whether we ever watched Dermot Bannon in the evening. We are not going to get Dermot Bannon to design these houses with glass gable walls. They are going to be modest three-bedroom houses on public land that are affordable for people. That is what we need to provide. We do not need anything elaborate. We need proper homes for people. This Government has...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...even though the sun was shining, they would go to their knees if he let them out into the field because it was so wet. This is the case for many farmers in areas where there is marginal or poorer land with poor drainage. They feel like they need some assistance in this regard. Providing something to help with the transportation of fodder was mentioned, but what farmers really need is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...talked about restricting parking, etc. All of that conveys the message that combating climate change is negative and people will have terrible hardship in the future. When the rewetting of land is suggested, people immediately think that it is not just one farmer's land will be rewetted because the land is connected to every other surrounding farm. In addition, say that farmer is fine,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: 486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many hectares of land farmers applied for under the hay meadow measure in ACRES 2023; how many hectares of hay meadow his Department paid out to farmers under the ACRES measure for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17663/24]

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...would tick all the boxes with regard to complying with our climate ambitions. To do this would be a tremendous achievement. Mr. Kenny mentioned that there may be difficulties with regard to the land and the amount of space there is. Are there options or can options be looked at in order that we could develop both? How much more expensive would it be than to put down just a rail line?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (9 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: 227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has any plans to introduce a levy on private jets using Irish airspace or landing at Irish airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14680/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...in a timely manner. Is there some frustration around that and delays or difficulties there? What issues does he foresee as difficulties in that respect? Also, with regard to the suitable lands and sites; all of that seems to be something which has been flagged a little here and I would just like to tease that out a little more as to where he might see difficulties?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...is going to be a meeting with the patrons, that will be very welcome. I think the local authority has a role to play here as well and would be very open to assisting in any way it can. Sites and land are available on the edge of the town that would be suitable and could be worked into that programme. If a little bit of imagination were to be used, answers could be found that could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...It is the same when we talk about people being radical. People think they are reckless. The word does not mean that but when farmers hear about rewetting, they think ,"They're going to flood my land." This is the immediate jump people go to. There needs to be a greater degree of understanding as to what exactly is meant by that and how it can work because in some instances, drainage is...

Energy Charter Treaty: Statements (9 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...but it is clear that this treaty needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history. We need to do so as quickly as possible. I welcome the commitment at the end of the Minister's statement that Ireland will do that and that he has spoken to the Attorney General about it. However, it is a problem to wait for everyone in the EU to move together. We should try to move with haste on it and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...majority of farmers who go into these schemes are already operating at a low intensity and probably have higher biodiversity-type farming practices than many of their colleagues who are on better land and have larger expanses of land, particularly in the dairy industry. Is there any way we can encourage those who are now farming more intensively to come into these types of schemes and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (22 Jun 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...there has been with Sligo County Council and Mayo County Council in regard to the upgrade of the N17. There is a proposal to build large sections of new road along the route. Farmers have had lands frozen for development for decades in anticipation of this project happening. As the Minister of State knows, the Minister, on a visit to Sligo a couple of weeks ago, announced it would not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Security, Recruitment and Training at Dublin Airport: Discussion (14 Jun 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...and we expect that the number will exceed 1 million in 25 years. It is said that we need four workers for each pensioner, so we will need 4 million workers. We are not going to produce them in Ireland so they will have to come from elsewhere. They will need to have somewhere to live, but they are also going to travel more because a lot of them are not going to be Irish people who were...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (16 May 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...he is aware of the leasing of 14 hectares of space within the port of Dublin in order to service previously expected Brexit-related traffic; if he will provide details on the cost of leasing this land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23191/23]

Irish Sheep Sector: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Martin Kenny: We are all aware that the sheep sector has been in crisis for many years. This does not come as a surprise. Sheep farmers, mainly those in mountainous areas and with poorer land, much of it in the west, including in my constituency, are finding it very difficult to manage and have been for quite some time. The sheep welfare payment in place is not adequate to deal with the situation....

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...parts of the country. Where I live in County Leitrim has one of the highest rates of afforestation in the country. Sitka spruce trees are everywhere. When I look outside, where the sky meets the land, it is Sitka spruce forestry on all sides. Forestry is painted as this great thing that will do an awful lot of good for people, but for the communities I live in and represent, it has...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Martin Kenny: The proposal to allow Coillte to use an investment company to buy up land and plant vast quantities of farmland across the country is another surge to the right, which is where this Government is going. We have a whole lot of issues in farming across the country. We have serious problems in our sheep and suckler cow sectors. I do not see any investment funds coming in to save them. Yet,...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...to make a difference. That is the big problem. I understand the Minister is meeting with Coillte today, if he has not already done so. One of the primary things farmers need to produce food is land. Now we see corporate interests are reaching in there to take hold of that and create an uneven playing field where many farmers, particularly in marginal land, would not be able to compete...

Report on Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment: Motion [Private Members] (1 Dec 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...a little bit more Irish. For almost all the houses we used hemp and lime, or hempcrete. I wish to use this opportunity to make the case for the development of a proper hemp industry in Ireland. It has great potential not just for our farmers but for our built environment as well. Most of the houses we built were small cottages, too small for modern living, so extensions were needed....