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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (20 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: 273. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for capacity planning and reform within the National Ambulance Service. [51601/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (20 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: 274. To ask the Minister for Health the average response time of ambulances in the south-east area; the number of ambulances ordinarily based at each location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51602/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (20 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: 275. To ask the Minister for Health the average response time of ambulances in the mid-west area; the number of ambulances ordinarily based at each location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51603/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (20 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paramedics assigned to ambulance services in the south-east area; and the optimum number of paramedics that should serve that area. [51604/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (20 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: 277. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paramedics assigned to ambulance services in the mid-west area; and the optimum number of paramedics that should serve that area. [51605/21]

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Statements (21 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: I am grateful for the opportunity to address the House as part of breast cancer awareness month. The key message I wish to convey relates to the importance of availing of the screening programme when the offer is made to individual women but also to the need to act on any suspected symptoms or concerns. As Deputy Martin Kenny said, the screening age should be reduced to 40. I recall...

Child and Family Agency (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: I will talk faster.

Child and Family Agency (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: Deputy Devlin will not take up all his time, will you, Deputy Devlin?

Child and Family Agency (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: I thank the Minister for bringing this Bill forward. It makes sense finally to move educational and welfare supports and the school completion programme back to the Department of Education. Due to the very nature of the school completion programme it should not have been under the auspices of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. Education is an...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (21 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: 47. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the measures for the organic sector in Budget 2022. [50771/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: 64. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the measures for the forestry sector in Budget 2022; and the measures that will be taken to make the sector more attractive to new entrants. [50770/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (21 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: 164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with the National Transport Authority, NTA, regarding the prevalence of illegal taxi operators; the nature of those discussions; if he has engaged with the NTA and An Garda Síochána to overcome the difficulties involved; if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of legal operators regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (19 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: 110. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the way parents are being faced with paying for private needs assessment for their children due to lengthy public waiting times; his further views on the way that this is creating an unequal playing field for young people from families with limited means; the efforts being made to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: 472. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 12 October 2021, if he will provide a date for the income limits for social housing; and if his attention has been drawn to the basic income limits that have not changed since 2011 despite significant changes in the housing market since then. [51029/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (19 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: 698. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there will be a recruitment campaign for an Garda Síochána before the end of 2021. [50743/21]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: Deputies Collins and Ó Murchú have just said what I was going to say. The entire Bill is totally unfair to the fishing community. The fishermen themselves are not against a penalty points system but it must be fair. As has been said, as we go through the Bill we will be pointing out where it is totally unfair to the industry. We would ask the Minister to reconsider this...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: We understand the purpose of the amendments the Minister is trying to bring through. The intention is to form a basis for a wider document and the amendments are designed to give effect to a scheme. We are not opposed to penalty points and neither are the fishermen, as has been said here already. We are opposed to the flawed and profoundly unfair scheme presented to us. It is impossible...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: We find this amendment reasonable and we will support it. Not everything is as cut and dried as the Department seems to consider it to be in this sector.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: I concur with Deputy Collins. This is one of the fundamental issues we have with the Bill. We are introducing this amendment because allowing future livelihoods to depend on the loose balance of probabilities is plain wrong. Sinn Féin's and Deputy Collins's amendment tries to resolve that. How many people working in the fisheries industry, or indeed in any industry or even as an...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: I concur with the two previous speakers. Both of these amendments go to the very heart of the unfairness of this scheme and there is no point in saying anything different to that. As Deputy Collins has said, Irish fishermen must be treated the same as these big international boats. Even in the event of a successful appeal to a conviction on the balance of probability, it is just crazy...