Results 1-20 of 352 for long speaker:Martin Kenny

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...motion to ensure a level of fairness for people who are suffering the huge impact of the cost-of-living crisis, in particular, people living in rural areas who have to travel to work and often have long distances to travel because they have no other option. People are being burdened with increasing fuel prices. The two increases to come this year will push prices up well above what they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...it or is able to help. There are spaces that need improvement. I fully accept this is a new scheme that will take time to bed in. In a general way, however, we have to look back. We have come a long distance from where we were years ago and massive improvements have been made. That has to be acknowledged. I will mainly deal with one issue. I look around at all the screens in the...

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

Martin Kenny: ...a problem across the country. We need to recognise that if we do not intervene early, the situation coming down the road will get worse. The general problems in the farming sector date back a long time. Farmers are despondent and disappointed. They find applying for and dealing with many of these schemes difficult. I will cite an example. TAMS 3 has been up and running for the...

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

Martin Kenny: ...we need to see in place. The committee has discussed safety. Prior to joining this committee, I was spokesperson for justice and I raised this issue in that context as well. The justice committee had long debates on having a public transport police service and I have campaigned on that proposal for a number of years. It needs to be a division of An Garda Síochána to have...

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

Martin Kenny: We need to recognise that the travelling public and the people who work in the service cannot all be wrong. I welcome the report and concur with everything in it. The witnesses have had a long day in Leinster House. They will get Sinn Féin’s support and we will do everything we can in the campaign to ensure this happens.

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...to fund that adequately. It has only gotten the funding in two of the past seven years, and we then wonder why we do not have the outcomes. When the Minister of State was speaking, she spent a long time on how good things are and about the good outcomes, etc. Let us imagine if the Government had gotten had gotten the proper funding how much better it could have been. That is the...

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: ...Sligo to Galway and down to Limerick. It would do more to integrate communities and rebalance the imbalance there has been between the west and east of the country. We would be putting in place long-term infrastructure around which we can build the economy. This is why I see the rail line as being crucial. I see as an advantage to the rail line the development of a greenway along with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Driver Licences (21 Mar 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...country in Europe. If those changes are going to have an impact on some of the people who drive vehicles of the aforementioned nature, they need to know in advance because it can take quite a long time to get tests and to put things in place to ensure they have the appropriate licence. Perhaps there will be no changes but we need to have clarity around that because there is still some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...this is not often looked. The opening statement mentioned obstacles, some of which are man-made. We have the weir at Drumshanbo on the River Shannon where something like that is there for a very long time and is no longer in use and while it might look nice, it causes significant problems. Sometimes it is a bridge or a pinch point on a river. A lot of commercial forestry has been...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...amendment I have proposed. The second amendment would require speed limit reviews to happen quickly and within no more than 120 days. I hear from some councillors around the country that it can be quite a long process and we need to shorten it and do this in a timely manner. That is why I have proposed these two amendments for which I hope I get the support of the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (15 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...Dublin with BusConnects and so forth. I am sure the Minister hears about bus delays in his own constituency, like everyone else. We hope these are teething problems but they seem to be taking a long time. For the people waiting at the bus stops they are very much a toothache rather than a teething problem. I hope that as this develops, the level of investment required will be enhanced...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (15 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...all out and how it will proceed, whether it is building a road or something else. The last three stages are the actual construction and moving things forward. The first four stages take twice as long as the last three stages. In most jurisdictions it is the other way around. The people who were here yesterday made it clear they felt there needs to be an examination of some of these...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: Long awaited comes at last, and this has certainly been the case with the executive in the North. We all extend our congratulations and our best wishes to the success of that executive. It comes as one of the key factors of the Good Friday Agreement in the hope that it offered of a co-operative Government that would work together for the benefit of everyone and to build a society that would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: That seems very long.

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...points for the one incident. That is welcome and it needs to come in. The mandatory drug testing after a collision or a particularly serious collision is also something that should have been in place a long time ago. That measure is certainly welcome but it is closing the stable door when the horse has bolted; the collision has happened and the person was driving while intoxicated. We...

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...regarding the Stardust inquest is a key issue that needs to be resolved. I am sure we can have a sense of it working through to a conclusion, I hope, for the many families who have waited far too long to get a sense of justice and closure regarding that tragic event. For many other families, the Coroner Service is where they go to try to get closure and an understanding of what happened....

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...to other places. Yet, we continue to hear these negative stories being spread and put up in different places around the country. Unfortunately, because people are concerned they have waited so long to get adequate services for things they need for themselves, they are very easily brought down this road that these very devious, narrow-minded, right-wing people are opening up for them. We...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regulatory Bodies (25 Jan 2024)

Martin Kenny: .... It is vital that ComReg gets the staff it requires to do this and as the Minister of State said, it is under consideration. I welcome that but I hope that the considerations do not take very long.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (18 Jan 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...people point out that difficulties still arise and problems might emerge in the future. The Government must get a grip on the regulation of materials that go into people's homes, which are a very long-term investment. It must ensure a system is put in place to hold to account those who abuse the system. That has happened and this is clear evidence of it. I want an absolute assurance...