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Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Martin Browne: What we must bear in mind when discussing this Bill is whether its provisions reflect the needs of survivors of institutional abuse. They are the ones whose lives were changed due to the conditions and treatment to which they were subject. We cannot forget that their lives have also been shaped by the disregard shown to them in the decades subsequent to their confinement in places like Sean...

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Martin Browne: I would have been happy to allow Deputy Conway-Walsh speak for another minute if she wanted. As has been said, the Government is taking the wrong path here. The majority of measures in the EU's migration and asylum pact are not in Ireland's interests. Through its determination to bind itself to every element of this pact, the Government believes it can distance itself from its own...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (1 May 2024)

Martin Browne: 66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made in relation to a passport application (details supplied) given that the required documentation as requested by the Department has been submitted. [19590/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Invasive Species Policy (1 May 2024)

Martin Browne: 208. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on calls for the suspension of log imports from Scotland, in light of the most recent detection of the bark beetle; to outline the possibility that arises that the bark beetle may have been introduced here from produce imported from Scotland’s pest-free area; the biosecurity measures in place to prevent the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Invasive Species Policy (1 May 2024)

Martin Browne: 209. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details on the volume of spruce with bark present imported from Scotland in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19624/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can provide an update on the extension of the local authority home loan to include derelict properties. [18656/24]

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: I welcome everyone to our public meeting this afternoon. The first item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes of the private meeting on 17 April 2024 and the public meeting on 18 April 2024. The minutes have already been approved in a virtual private meeting but for procedural reasons they must be approved in public. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. I will read some formal...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: Public petition No. P00021/22 is on the Kiltimagh water scheme from Mr. Thomas Carney. Our next order of business is engagement on that public petition, which will be split into two sessions. In the first session from 1.45 p.m. to 2.45 p.m., we will hear from Mr. Thomas Carney, petitioner and campaigner, Kiltimagh and Cleragh-Lisduff group water scheme, and Mr, Alan Ivers, campaigner. In...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: I thank Mr. Carney. I ask Mr. Ivers for his opening statement.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: I call Deputy Conway-Walsh.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: It is a question we can ask in the second part of the session when Mayo County Council will come before the committee.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: Does Deputy Conway-Walsh wish to come in?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: I just want to say a few words and then I will let Mr. Carney in. In this day and age, to have a whole community without water is a disgrace. I was on a county council and I know that all the talk is about clusters and bringing people from the big urban areas to rural areas, but people cannot settle in any area, rural or urban, without water. Like Mr. Ivers, I grew up in a family of 11...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: Mr. Ivers gave us one of the reasons the groups were given for the delays. What is the witnesses’ view of the specific reasons for the delays? Would they lay the blame for the delays on Mayo County Council or Uisce Éireann? Did matters improve or get worse when Uisce Éireann was formed? They would have been dealing with Mayo County Council before Uisce Éireann was...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: The witnesses were given assurances that the grants were obtained and that the project had gone out to tender. When were they given those assurances?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: I have no more questions. Unless anyone else is offering, I call Mr. Carney to make his closing statement.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: I thank Mr. Carney and Mr. Ivers for attending the meeting. This discussion has been very beneficial and informative to the committee. The committee will consider the next steps after we talk to the other witnesses after the break. I would like to inform Mr. Carney and Mr. Ivers that they are welcome to stay online to view the second session but they will not be able to participate in that...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: I extend a warm welcome to the following witnesses: from the rural water unit in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Mr. Douglas Kelly, principal officer, and Mr. Luke Varley, assistant principal officer; from Mayo County Council, Mr. John Condon, director of services, Mr. Michael McDermott, senior executive engineer, and Ms Bernadette Bourke, executive engineer on the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: For the sake of a few minutes, we will let Mr. Kelly finish his opening statement.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: I now invite Mr. Joyce to make his opening statement.