Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Other than writing to the Mental Health Commission to see if it can give us any other advice for the family. That is what we discussed in private session. It is a heartbreaking story to see a family member like that. I hope the Mental Health Commission will be able to come back with different advice for the family. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Third is petition No. P00047/2024, “Vote against any WHO pandemic treaty and reform”, from Mr. C McMahon. It states:

Mussolini famously said, "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power".

[The] WHO treaty if it were to pass would give an unelected organisation total power over world governments health policies.

The WHO is funded by private individuals and corporations, this could lead to health tyranny the likes of Aldous Huxley would have nightmares about.

This treaty must or any change in health policy relating to WHO treaty should be stopped.

A review must be conducted into [the] WHO and [the] Government response to the Covid pandemic. Leo Varadkar himself said the response was "quite totalitarian".

This type of Government overreach must never happen again.

Action taken to resolve the issue of concern before submitting the petition.

Petitions signed against, contact TDs to vote against.

The background is the secretariat wrote to the Department of Health seeking a response advising of its views within 14 days. The secretariat received a response from the Department of Health on 18 June. The recommendation is that we publish the response from the Department of Health and that the correspondence from the Department of Health be forwarded to the petitioner. In consideration of the response from the Department of Health, the petition cannot be progressed further by the joint committee on public petitions and the petitioner has been advised of same. Do members have any views?