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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: The Chairman did cut me off but I will forgive him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: Deputy Flaherty said what I wanted to say. This is a big industry through which an amount of jobs and money can come into the economy. We need a strongly worded letter or whatever people want. It must be made quite clear that when the next invitation goes out to those Ministers, there should be no reference to particular dates on which they are available. We have been trying to arrange...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: I have a quick question for Ms McManus. Did I take her up correctly earlier? Did she say that the alternative mushroom producers have is enough to keep them going but that the output would be reduced? If that is the case, how far can the output go down before the business becomes unviable and places start to close?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: Did I pick up Ms McManus correctly earlier? Was she saying that some of the alternatives available would be enough for the industry but that the output of mushrooms would be down?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: If the industry is to continue with a reduced yield, how far can it go down before businesses are in trouble and no longer viable? Are we near that point?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (18 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: 279. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a number of Revenue Commissioners staff working in County Tipperary who have been informed that they were wrongly paid a franking allowance for an extended period of time (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51447/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (18 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: 768. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to there being no adult speech and language therapy for adults with intellectual disabilities in south Tipperary resulting in no referrals to the service being accepted; and his Department’s plans to address this lack of service. [51521/22]

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Taking in Charge: Mr. Terence Coskeran (13 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: I second that. I would go further and would look for the Department and the Minister himself to come before the committee, as well as the county council. I know it is easy for us to say but Mr. Coskeran has done everything he can. It is a damning indictment of the council, the Department and Irish Water that they have an individual getting so upset about something that should be easily...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Taking in Charge: Mr. Terence Coskeran (13 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: Are the other houses in the estate owner-occupied or rented?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (25 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: 72. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to ensure an adequate supply of horticultural peat to the mushroom sector, with reference to the recent report on the horticultural sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53173/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (25 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: We have come around to this again today. I want to express my own frustration as well as that of people in the mushroom industry, producers and the wider horticulture industry at what they see as the inaction of three Departments on the issue of horticultural peat. There seems to be a continued failure to even acknowledge some of the recommendations within numerous reports or to ensure...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (25 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: Part of the problem is that all these reports, surveys and the whole lot are going no place. I am quite sure the Minister of State will have watched the committee meeting on 7 October or someone will have informed her what happened there. There is deep frustration in the sector because of the lack of the three Departments working together. We have been looking for months for the three...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (25 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: The Minister of State can give me all the figures she likes. We have had committee meeting after committee meeting with the sector and they are telling us they are in trouble for lack of peat here. The Minister of State talked about the sub-30 ha bogs. There has been no action there, according to the stakeholders. What can the Department do? Without the co-operation of the three...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Horticulture Sector (25 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: All the more reason that the three Departments have to come together. The sector is in serious trouble.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: I raise the crazy system of the retrofitting scheme the Government has introduced. When will the Government realise it is not working and will not work because it excludes a large number of households? One example is stone-built houses that were constructed in 1965 or earlier. These homes could really do with deep retrofits but we are told that they do not qualify. Such homes are usually...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: These are the houses that need the deep retrofit.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: Anything pre 1965 does not even qualify.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: Yes.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: A Bill such as this is needed because of the situation created by the Government and its broken housing policy. Only this week, people contacted my office in Cashel because they had nowhere to go after their tenancies ended. One case involves a single mother and her children. This family just cannot find accommodation in a market that is strangled through a lack of supply. The mother, who...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: 116. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the continued failure to meet forestry licence issuance and afforestation targets. [53174/22]