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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Martin Browne: Have we any indication or does the study show that most of the number who are not successful will try to source training someplace else or change their mind and go away from veterinary altogether?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Martin Browne: Could an argument be made for veterinary medicine courses to be coupled with some of the locations where veterinary nursing courses are provided?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Martin Browne: What about the availability of qualified lecturers and tutors? What availability do we have in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Martin Browne: What steps need to be taken to speed it up and turn people around, for want of a better word, so that they are qualified?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Martin Browne: I welcome our guests. What is the Department's view on regional balance when it comes to the creation of the new veterinary schools? Is the Department working on the assumption that it will be one new centre or is it considering opening new centres in several places? If we are talking about regional accessibility, what kind of spread has the Department in mind in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Martin Browne: Will it be just the one new centre or are talks continuing for others?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Martin Browne: Has the Department any data about the full extent of people's interest in pursuing veterinary medicine as a career? We were told earlier there are 135 places in UCD, and numerous people do not get onto the course. Some students, perhaps for monetary reasons, are not able to go to a foreign county to study. Have we any idea how many people are put off doing veterinary medicine because they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Martin Browne: That child will have to start thinking about the CAO.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Martin Browne: Of those who go abroad to study, have we data to indicate if they come back? It is an awful pity we are so short of veterinarians here and are still sending students abroad. The unfortunate truth is that many of those students do not come back for a long time and we are stuck in the same situation. Do those who study abroad come back once they are qualified or do they stay put and come...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (9 May 2023)

Martin Browne: 190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland has a complaint handing system through which citizens can raise a complaint relating to national roads; the process involved in making and assessing complaints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21399/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 May 2023)

Martin Browne: 396. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether it is appropriate for a person (details supplied) to be left waiting six months for a decision from the social welfare appeals office. [21226/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Travel Documents (10 May 2023)

Martin Browne: 142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process that must be followed to enable a person (details supplied) to obtain a travel document; the options open to them given that the Embassy is only open on an intermittent basis and may also prove unsuitable for the person concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22007/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (10 May 2023)

Martin Browne: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made in resolving the situation of adult education tutors employed by education and training boards for whom a pay offer based on a recommendation by the Labour Court has yet to materialise; if there is a working timeline for the conclusion of discussions between his Department and the Department of Public...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Education Provision (10 May 2023)

Martin Browne: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his commitment to ensuring that adult education tutors claim for proper public service contracts with an incremental salary scale, recognition of prior service and improved conditions is delivered upon; the progress being made on same and on securing pay parity for those recruited after 2011; and if he will make a statement...

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Martin Browne: I welcome the motion tabled by the Independent Group. We hear a lot from the Government about care in the community being a way to take pressure off acute hospitals and emergency departments. I have no issue with this. There are communities, some of them in Tipperary, that shudder to hear the excuse of providing care in the community when centres that do precisely this are targeted for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2023)

Martin Browne: He is telling the truth.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2023)

Martin Browne: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Revitalising Derelict and Vacant Homes on Farmland: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Martin Browne: I thank the IPAV representatives for coming in. They have spoke about local knowledge being drawn down to develop a database and we are going to have the farming organisations before us at the next session. Can they assist with that database? Have any discussions taken place between them and the institute on this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Revitalising Derelict and Vacant Homes on Farmland: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Martin Browne: Yes. Mr. Davitt is touching on what I want to ask him next. What are the planning obstacles farmers are likely to deal with to make these schemes work for them and their families? I am thinking especially of the revitalisation of the houses in the middle of farmyards Mr. Davitt has just described. There is family succession and even the issue of remediation. Then there is the purpose for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Revitalising Derelict and Vacant Homes on Farmland: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Martin Browne: Does IPAV envisage major insurance problems with the sharing of farmyards? Let us say Mr. Davitt does up the house in the middle of his farmyard and I move in. What way is there around the insurance issues there? We have a claims culture and there could be serious issues there.