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Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: I would ask for each of the witnesses' views on the interpretation of the Solvency II directive.

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: I have no doubt we will be returning to it. We need to keep doing what we can as a committee to get this resolved because from the word go, from when the petition came in, this is all part of our heritage. If we start losing it, it is going to be a massive loss to the country. I would say that is a bigger risk to our economy than insurance companies having a small bit of a loss. The...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: For any stakeholders with thatched properties looking in on this, what could Ms Murdock say to them to allay their fears that their business might go down because they cannot get insurance, or that they would have to take the thatch off their family home because they cannot get insurance? We have heard it from petitioners. What could Ms Murdock say to them?

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: The same question is for the Alliance for Insurance Reform.

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: On behalf of the committee, I thank both organisations for coming in. It has been informative and I have no doubt we will be back again, and either the witnesses or someone else in the sector will be back in front of this committee. We will now suspend the meeting to allow witnesses to leave the room.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: We are resuming in public session. We have six petitions for consideration today. No. P00008/23 is a petition to stop legal netting of Atlantic salmon in Castlemaine Harbour from Mr. Daniel Brosnan. At the committee's meeting on 15 July, it was agreed by the committee that the correspondence from the inland fisheries division of the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: I thank the members of the secretariat who do Trojan work on our behalf.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2023)

Martin Browne: Just over a year ago, when we were discussing similar matters, the homelessness figures were in the region of 11,000. They now stand at 13,179, including 3,911 children. Those figures are conservative. In June, July and August, 208 people presented to Tipperary County Council as homeless. At the beginning of September, 57 adults and 25 children were using the emergency accommodation...

Increased Fossil Fuel Divestment: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Martin Browne: I also commend the Independent Group on bringing the motion to the floor. It is timely we are discussing this on the same morning an agreement seems to have been reached at a global climate summit that nearly lost credibility due to the attitude adopted by some states. If we look at the main stories that emerged from the climate summit, we see the encapsulation of the key problems that have...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (13 Dec 2023)

Martin Browne: 189. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the recommendations of the independent review group into his Department’s response to ash dieback disease are to be implemented; the progress made in assessing his Department’s response to these recommendations; when a decision is likely to be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55670/23]

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Martin Browne: We will now go into private session.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (14 Dec 2023)

Martin Browne: I remind members of the constitutional requirement that members must be physically present within the confines of the place in which Parliament has chosen to sit, namely, Leinster House, in order to participate in public meetings. I will not permit a member to participate where he or she is not adhering to the constitutional requirement. Therefore, any member who attempts to participate...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (14 Dec 2023)

Martin Browne: That was agreed at our previous meeting. The petitioner was waiting for the reply from the ombudsman. Has she received a reply?

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (14 Dec 2023)

Martin Browne: The petitioner was not satisfied with the reply given by the ombudsman, which suggested that the financial sanction could deplete the resources used to operate the system in which it operates and that, rather than sanction Tusla, a system of continuous improvement would bring about corrections to failings outlined by HIQA. The petitioner says the continuous improvement is not designed to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (14 Dec 2023)

Martin Browne: We will get the reply back from the ombudsman and give it to the petitioner.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (14 Dec 2023)

Martin Browne: Would we be better off bringing in the group first to hear its concerns and solutions again before we bring in the ombudsman?

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (14 Dec 2023)

Martin Browne: We will invite the group in and they can put their case to us. We will have their side of it before we ask the ombudsman to come before us. Is that agreed? Agreed. I will ask the secretariat to organise to invite the group in as early as possible in the new year. We will put this matter on the work programme. We will listen to their side of it.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (14 Dec 2023)

Martin Browne: Petition No. P00024/23 is "Electric Scooter Safety, Standards and Requirements". This is from Mr. Alexander-Marckus Edwards and relates to the recent press releases which state that powered personal transportation, PPT - in other words, electric scooters - should conform to a weight limit, including battery, and a power limit of 500 W and 25 kg respectively. The petitioner alleges that...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (14 Dec 2023)

Martin Browne: There has already been correspondence with the petitioner to which he has replied. The secretariat received the petitioner’s response to the correspondence from the Department of Transport via JCPP-r-1307/2023, appendix B, on 20 October 2023. The petitioner believes that the Department of Transport's considerations do not consider the inherent dangers of riding an electric scooter or...