Results 1-20 of 71 for going forward speaker:Martin Browne

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Martin Browne: ...such bodies electoral systems are not enshrined in the Constitution. Or alternately will you consider getting an all-party committee to examine same. Or if you persist with the current legislation, are you going to organise a Referendum? If you are in any doubt, see, See Crotty v. An Taoiseach 1987. "It is not within the competence of the Government, or indeed the Oireachtas to free...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Martin Browne: We will go with the recommendations. We will invite in representatives of the State bodies and try to get one of the three to take responsibility for this matter. It has been going on too long. The campaign has the backing of 28 councils, TDs, Senators and so on but, as Senator Craughwell said, it also has the support of 92 of the men's relatives, and that should be the main thing....

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: ...with setting fires and causing damage and danger in those same localities. They believe in consequences for people they deem "the other", but they do not have the courage or conviction to come forward and justify their acts. They are cowards. Matters have reached such a stage that rumours are becoming increasingly concerning. When rumours begin to go around about a property possibly...

Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: I assure the witnesses that the committee will try to do as much as we can to move Mr. Gaffney's case forward. It is scandalous that there has not been some resolution over that period of time. People's lives are at risk when they go to sea. Health and safety must be a high priority. Mr. Delaney touched on this. How did the Dutch and Germans keep passing that type of boat as safe, and...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (22 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: ...such bodies electoral systems are not enshrined in the Constitution. Or alternately will you consider getting an all-party committee to examine same. Or if you persist with the current legislation, are you going to organise a Referendum? If you are in any doubt, see, See Crotty v. An Taoiseach 1987. "It is not within the competence of the Government, or indeed the Oireachtas to free...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (22 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: The right to water is a fundamental one. It is hard to believe that this community is going through this experiences and is struggling to resolve its case. Hopefully, we can have the same kind of feedback from and correspondence with Mayo County Council and get a similar result to what which we achieved with Tipperary County Council. No. P00040/23 relates to 17 years being the legal age...

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

Martin Browne: ...has informed our attitude of compassion to those who are in need of refuge. I am proud to stand here to say that. I am proud to say we have communities that have welcomed with open arms people going through the international protection process, and people who are beneficiaries of temporary protection. Yet, we are now seeing that this is being negatively impacted by the lack of coherent...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (25 Jan 2024)

Martin Browne: ...Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. The petition was last considered on 30 November 2023, with the following recommendations: that the correspondence from the Department of Finance be forwarded to the petitioner for comment within 14 days; that CORU be written to with regard to both petitions, namely, No. P00009/23 on the reform of Irish mental health services and No. P00026/23...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (25 Jan 2024)

Martin Browne: ...in the examinations, about supports provided in lieu of additional time and about the review of the current RACE scheme was also provided. There are 4 pages of background information. Will we go through it or will we forward it to the Senator?

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (14 Dec 2023)

Martin Browne: ...'s view, this would best be done by appointing a lawyer in Egypt and engaging with the legal system there. The Department has contacted the Egyptian foreign ministry and Ministry of Justice, the good intentions committee, the Egyptian ambassador to Ireland and multiple diplomatic missions in Egypt. The Tánaiste contacted the Egyptian foreign minister on this matter as well. I know...

Committee on Public Petitions: Visit of Kenyan Delegation (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: ...education and in the IT sector here. These are bonds and friendships that need to continue for the benefit of both countries. I have no doubt we can continue them. We will meet again, whether we go to Kenya or the delegation comes here again, to learn more about the system. As has been said, having heard about the way the committees are conducted in Kenya, I think our Ceann Comhairle...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: I have no doubt we will be returning to it. We need to keep doing what we can as a committee to get this resolved because from the word go, from when the petition came in, this is all part of our heritage. If we start losing it, it is going to be a massive loss to the country. I would say that is a bigger risk to our economy than insurance companies having a small bit of a loss. The...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: ...remain worried about the impact of cost overruns that may scupper plans for projects that are of such importance to those communities. As we have seen recently, bad planning can result in projects going wrong. In these cases oversight, accountability and cost controls will have limited effect particularly if the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: I was going to come to that. It has been explained that we apologise as a committee and that it was an administrative error. The witnesses are here, and what we want to do going forward is cut down this list a bit that they gave us in order that we can get some of these people in and try to start to answer the questions the witnesses have asked of us. I am quite sure there are many other...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: There are nine petitions for consideration so we will go straight into them. The first petition is No. 35 of 2022, "Amend Child Care Act 1991 to provide HIQA with the necessary powers to sanction Tusla, Child and Family Agency when it fails to meet its statutory obligations”. This has been submitted by the Alliance of Birth Mothers Campaigning for Justice, known as ABC. ABC is...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: Just to go back, there are gaps in our own legislation that may be working against the petitioner here. Once correspondence has gone over and back, we may see from the OPLA if the loopholes can actually be closed so that it may not happen to others who may get caught in the same position. The next petition is No. 23 of 2023, “Irish Citizenship Naturalisation application processing...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: Yes. Is the recommendation agreed to? Agreed. Petition No. 30 of 2023, “Create a walking and cycling greenway on the closed railway from Sligo to Athenry”, was submitted by Mr. Brendan Quinn. This petition relates to the closed railway line from Collooney in County Sligo to Athenry. The line has been closed for over four decades and is lying in waste. People along the route...

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

Martin Browne: ...because we are speaking about people's lives. Existing levels of service are clearly inadequate. If the Minister is not providing enough to cover existing levels of service he is clearly going backwards. I am calling on the Minister to step back from the brink and increase the funding allocation to adequately cover existing levels of service and cost pressures, to provide for new...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: ...of the Solvency II directive or provisions of the treaties and EU legislation protecting the single market for insurance are infringed. This committee recommends that the correspondence from the European Commission be forwarded to the petitioner for comment, that the committee write to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman regarding the issues raised in the petition and that the...

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Martin Browne: Ordinary workers and journalists at RTÉ, as well as the fee-paying public, all feel utterly betrayed when they hear of the slush funds and barter accounts in the golden circles at RTÉ. One of the main issues here is trust, a quality that features prominently on the RTÉ website. Trust has been lost and will be very difficult to regain. There must be serious changes going...