Results 2,101-2,120 of 4,399 for speaker:Martin Browne
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petitions Received (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: The committee recommends that the correspondence from Kildare County Council be sent to Mr. Broughan for comment, that the petition itself and all related correspondence be sent for comment to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O’Brien. Those are the recommendations. Has Senator...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petitions Received (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: We should certainly revisit it after the recess.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: Regarding banning herbicides in public areas and the review of local authority responses on this issue, at the public meeting of the committee on Thursday, 12 May 2022, it was agreed that the secretariat would write to all 31 local authorities with a list of questions about whether they use herbicides in public areas - petition No. 8 of 2022. To date, 26 of the 31 local authorities have...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: We would not doubt that the people in Cork would come back to us straightaway. That is agreed.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: The Senator will get full agreement from all members. The clerk and the secretariat staff do an unbelievable amount of work for us. Do members wish to go into private session to discuss Owenacurra or are we planning to have a meeting during the recess?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: We are not sure if Senator Buttimer would even be able to hear if we go into private session because that thing is back on his screen again.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: We can hear you at this stage, but we are in public session. If we go into private session-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: Everyone else is gone. There would only be the two of us if we went into private session.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: We can try to organise a private meeting next week.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: We will try to have a private meeting next week to discuss Owenacurra if we can find a date and time that suits everybody.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: I send everybody best wishes for the summer holidays. If they are going abroad, bring us back something.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Adding Chefs to the Critical Skills List Now to Save Irish Hospitality: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: We will have two sets of witnesses with us to speak on two separate issues. Petition No. 00025/22 from Mr. Paddy Lynn concerns adding chefs to the critical skills list now to save Irish hospitality. Mr. Lynn and Mr. Khairul Nizam Bin Nayan will speak on this petition. Later in the meeting, we will address petition No. 00042/21 from Ms Joanna Curtis, which is concerned with saving the...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Adding Chefs to the Critical Skills List Now to Save Irish Hospitality: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: I thank Mr. Lynn. Is the shortage of chefs an issue throughout the EU? If not, is it the language issue to which Mr. Lynn referred that prevents them from coming to Ireland?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Adding Chefs to the Critical Skills List Now to Save Irish Hospitality: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: In Mr. Lynn's statement he said that the expert group on future skills needs made no mention of the hospitality sector. Has he any thoughts as to why it did not? It seems like it should be at the top of the agenda.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Adding Chefs to the Critical Skills List Now to Save Irish Hospitality: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: It is cross-committee, yes.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Adding Chefs to the Critical Skills List Now to Save Irish Hospitality: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: We will suspend the meeting to allow the witnesses to leave and to bring in the next witnesses.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Saving the Services of the Owenacurra Centre in Cork: Discussion. (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: Before we ask Dr. Kelleher to make a final comment, I thank Ms Curtis for bringing this petition to us. Deputy Buckley referred to having petitions from 600 families. It is easy to get caught up in numbers and pins stuck in boards and maps, but behind every number and every pin is a family member like Dr. Kelleher's aunt. The top level of the HSE needs to start recognising that and that...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petitions Received (7 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: That concludes our consideration of public petitions this afternoon. I would like to invite members of the public to submit petitions via our online portal, which is available at petitions.oireachtas.ie. A petition may be addressed to the Houses of the Oireachtas on a matter of general public concern or interest or an issue of public policy. Today's submissions and petitions are perfect...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: I welcome the witnesses. To return to the board, given the potential importance of it and the office, the ICMSA questioned the size of the board and a quorum of just three. The number of members that should be on the board has been raised on a number of occasions but when asked about the size of the board, the Minister referred to setting up subcommittees and the whole lot. Is it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2022)
Martin Browne: We accept that subcommittees are there but to have such a small number-----