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Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: The problem seems to be there are no reports. We as a committee and as individual members have looked for reports and we are not getting them. We are asking to be shown even one report showing decisions were made, not opinions. Services such as these cannot be taken out of an area based on opinion alone. There must have been decisions made by the HSE, a working group, or whatever it is...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: I do not doubt that for one minute, but I also do not doubt that the multitude of people who used St. Brigid's down through the years never raised an issue of privacy, such as five beds on a ward needing to be cut to four beds. They were happy. Their families and the community were happy that a top-class service was being provided by top-class staff. That has been stripped away from them...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: Private nursing home beds seem to be the solution to all of this. This community raised money for doors, windows and anything else that was needed in Carrick-on-Suir. The money was raised by them for that hospital-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: -----and now it is being completely ripped away from them.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: Yes, I have no problem with that.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: I thank Ms Killeen White, Ms McDaid, Mr. Ruane and Ms Walsh for coming before the committee. It has been beneficial. We have got a certain amount of information, but I am still not convinced that we know everything of the decisions that went on behind the scenes to close this hospital. It is to be hoped we will get the consultant's report or, as Deputy Cahill requested, even the minutes of...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: We had three petitions for consideration today. Petition No. 21 of 2021 is entitled Taking in Charge and was submitted by Mr. Terence Coskeran. This petition relates to a request to the local authority to take in charge a residential development of five houses at Rocksprings, Kilross, County Tipperary. This petition has been before the committee a few times. The petitioner presented to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: It is noted for now. If something is not moved, we need to bring officials from Irish Water in to answer why suddenly another problem has come in at this stage. Petition No. 48 of 2022 is entitled Save St. Brigid’s Hospital and was submitted by Mr. David Dunne. This petition relates to a request to reopen St. Brigid’s Hospital in Carrick-on-Suir. The secretariat wrote to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: Yes. We asked that they come back to us with clarification. Is that agreed? Agreed. Petition No. 52 of 2022, entitled Lil Red's Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign, was submitted by Mr. Joseph Hughes. This petition requests that the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, and the HSE’s national sepsis programme develop a sepsis awareness campaign for television and radio explaining...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: That is what they said.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: Does Mr. Ruane want to answer the question that was to him?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: If Mr. Ruane tried to get planning permission on a floodplain in his own area, and he being in building, does he think he would get it?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: We are not going to get them this evening.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: It does not make it clear, as far as I know. The secretariat said that the annual one is every year but not on television. We do not know why they decided not to put it on television where people can see it and identify the symptoms. 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,...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: I wish the secretariat - Ms Semple, Ms Moran, Ms Hughes and everyone - all the best. The amount of work they go through on our behalf every two weeks and on a daily basis is unbelievable. We spoke to the secretariat to send condolences from the committee to the Turkish Embassy on the tragedy that has happened there.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: Yes. We met them last week.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (9 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: A letter drafted on behalf of the committee is going to the Turkish Embassy.

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: I thank the Minister for the opportunity to speak on the Bill. A derogation that would have allowed for responsible persons to continue to dispense some veterinary medicinal products, VMPs, without a veterinary prescription was not availed of by the Government. As the Minister knows full well, it led to a lengthy debate on the future of the role of the responsible persons under the new...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on student accommodation projects at advanced stages of planning that remain undeveloped due to a lack of agreement on Government support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6950/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: I will go back to where we are with accommodation for college students. The Minister announced towards the end of last year that funding had been released for 667 of the 3,000 remaining undeveloped sites. I accept that he said earlier to Deputy Conway-Walsh that he met with representatives from these colleges. When can we see progress on this? Dublin City University, DCU, has planning...