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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: 1226. To ask the Minister for Health the current WTE filled and vacant in each South Tipperary CAMHS team, broken down by discipline, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13686/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: 1227. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals received by each CAMHS team in south Tipperary in 2023; the number of those referrals that were accepted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13687/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: 1228. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of referrals to the South East CAMHS-ID team in 2023; and the number of those referrals accepted. [13688/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: 1229. To ask the Minister for Health the WTE posts currently allocated and the number of those posts vacant, in the South East CAMHS-ID team, broken down by discipline, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13689/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (9 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: 1332. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to increasing the travel allowance for home care support workers given the increased cost of fuel has not been matched with an increase in the travelling allowance; his views on the situation at present regarding the impact of this shortfall on workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14217/24]

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: We are living in an ageing society, and it is important we get auto-enrolment right. It is important to provide a financial vehicle to help people to supplement the State pension to enable them greater financial security in retirement, so we must get it right. It is to reward workers and improve their lives post retirement. I refer to the mandatory nature of the automatic opt-in for six...

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: I also want to thank Deputy Cullinane for tabling the motion. The Minister of State said in her contribution that she would give figures; I am also going to give figures. First, we have had 13 years with Deputies Harris, Varadkar and Stephen Donnelly as Minister for Health that have made the health service worse, with higher hospital overcrowding, hospital waiting times and wasteful...

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: We need an all-round approach to road safety to reverse the worrying trend of road deaths we have seen recently. The last time I spoke about this, in February, I drew attention to the fact that the manned deterrent on the roads needs to be increased, yet the ability to provide that increased Garda presence is hamstrung by the shortage of available gardaí. This was pointedly outlined in...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: One of the issues we generally come across when responding to the needs of farmers is the delay in appropriately addressing things as they happen. The particularly wet weather at the end of last year and to date in 2024 has extended the season in which farmers have had to keep their livestock housed and, as a result, has had a significant impact on feeding costs. Despite the signals that...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: As other speakers have said, we all appreciate the importance of this Bill as regards gambling, especially the online part of it. There is not a TD in this Chamber who has not been approached by some charity, GAA club or school raising money. It is unbelievable that this is being brought in when there is so much uncertainty out there. We are asking for it to be referred back to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can provide an update on the extension of the local authority home loan to include derelict properties. [18656/24]

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: I welcome everyone to our public meeting this afternoon. The first item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes of the private meeting on 17 April 2024 and the public meeting on 18 April 2024. The minutes have already been approved in a virtual private meeting but for procedural reasons they must be approved in public. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. I will read some formal...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: Public petition No. P00021/22 is on the Kiltimagh water scheme from Mr. Thomas Carney. Our next order of business is engagement on that public petition, which will be split into two sessions. In the first session from 1.45 p.m. to 2.45 p.m., we will hear from Mr. Thomas Carney, petitioner and campaigner, Kiltimagh and Cleragh-Lisduff group water scheme, and Mr, Alan Ivers, campaigner. In...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: I thank Mr. Carney. I ask Mr. Ivers for his opening statement.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: I call Deputy Conway-Walsh.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: It is a question we can ask in the second part of the session when Mayo County Council will come before the committee.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: Does Deputy Conway-Walsh wish to come in?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: I just want to say a few words and then I will let Mr. Carney in. In this day and age, to have a whole community without water is a disgrace. I was on a county council and I know that all the talk is about clusters and bringing people from the big urban areas to rural areas, but people cannot settle in any area, rural or urban, without water. Like Mr. Ivers, I grew up in a family of 11...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: Mr. Ivers gave us one of the reasons the groups were given for the delays. What is the witnesses’ view of the specific reasons for the delays? Would they lay the blame for the delays on Mayo County Council or Uisce Éireann? Did matters improve or get worse when Uisce Éireann was formed? They would have been dealing with Mayo County Council before Uisce Éireann was...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: The witnesses were given assurances that the grants were obtained and that the project had gone out to tender. When were they given those assurances?