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Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: We can find out what the situation is because there is uncertainty.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: What was the Senator's suggestion?

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: We will ask the secretariat to-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: We will ask the secretariat to contact the health committee and other committees to see if there is a crossover. I will say, as Senator Craughwell and Deputy Buckley have said, there is an urgency to this. We will also get clarification from the petitioners themselves if they have been with the regional health committee. If they have, we will try to fit them in over the next one or two...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: The next petition is 44/21, which relates to Wexford County Council. There was a recommendation during the private session that the correspondence from Wexford County Council would be forwarded to the petitioner for comment. Do members have any views on that? No. That concludes our consideration of public petitions. I invite members of the public to submit petitions via our online...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: I thank members for attending and taking part. I thank also the committee secretariat and those involved in helping to run these meetings. We will adjourn until 11.30 a.m on Wednesday, 16 February 2022, when we will meet for a virtual private meeting, to be followed by a public meeting at 1.30 p.m. on Thursday, 17 February 2022.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petitions on Unauthorised Developments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: I thank Mr. Nixon-King and Mr. Kehoe for their opening statements, and I thank both organisations for attending. I understand the witnesses cannot comment on any issues that are the subject of ongoing legal proceedings. We all respect that. I would like to know who is responsible for whatever is on or adjacent to the River Shannon. Having read the correspondence on the matter from...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petitions on Unauthorised Developments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: I would be very careful about asking any of the witnesses a question of that nature.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: I do not think so. Is Deputy Buckley on the Committee on Health?

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: I am not sure but I would imagine they probably have done so.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: They have come this far and to the best of my knowledge they have exhausted every avenue that was open to them. Listening to them might bring in extra work but if we start putting obstacles in front of community groups like the St. Brigid's hospital committee and the Owenacurra centre committee, we will finish up having nothing to do because no one in the public will have any faith that an...

Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: In December, following the airing of the RTÉ documentary "Women of Honour", the Minister for Defence told the House that in light of the dreadful revelations that emerged he was going to put in place a process that would deliver real change. Unfortunately, what has come from his Department has fallen far short of this commitment or the great lengths to which the women concerned went in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (8 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will publish the SUSI review and bring forward measures to improve the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6356/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: 323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to reports of vulture funds buying homes directly from financial institutions in some cases even when these homes are already for sale on the open market and are under offer from potential buyers; and the measures that he plans to introduce to ensure fairness for home buyers who cannot compete...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: 598. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners currently participating in the out-of-hours service by area; the number of hours that they provide to the service on a weekly, monthly and annual basis; the current status of the general practitioner contract; and the progress that has been made in relation to the obligation to provide general practitioner out-of-hours...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: 632. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners currently participating in the Shannondoc out of hours service by area; the number of hours they provide to the service on a weekly, monthly and annual basis in tabular form; the current status of the general practitioner contract; and the progress that has been made in relation to the obligation to provide general...

National Minimum Wage: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: I regularly encounter people who are working, and working hard, yet it is not paying off for them. They are still facing the difficulties we are becoming too familiar with these days, such as difficulties in meeting their housing payments each month, paying insurance costs to get them to and from work, paying for childcare and the list goes on. However, an increasing problem is how low...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: The purpose of the CCPC is to have the consumers at the centre of its work, to act on their behalf and to protect them from anticompetitive measures that will ultimately have a negative effect on them. This is the case for individual consumers as well as businesses and by extension, the economy as a whole. For this protection to be effective, the CCPC needs to have powers that will deter...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have applied for funding under the once-off Covid-19 minor works funding of €17 million for post-primary schools; and the number of schools that were successful in their application by county. [6962/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: I was going to bring up a particular issue, but having listened to earlier remarks from the Tánaiste I do not believe he or anybody on the Government benches realises how low and middle income families in this country are struggling. They have no experience of it. I hear Members opposite say that they get it and they understand it, but they do not. I will give an example. A couple of...