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- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)
Martin Browne: For example?
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)
Martin Browne: The SDLP did as well.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)
Martin Browne: The number of people who are either locked out of homeownership or even locked out of rental accommodation is genuinely staggering. Leaving the statistics aside for the moment, all Deputies know from the calls they get to their offices that there is a fundamental problem with the availability of accommodation. No family type is immune to this, be it families with young children, single...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (10 May 2022)
Martin Browne: 711. To ask the Minister for Health when the expert team will be deployed to University Hospital Limerick; if the team will visit other hospitals within the UL hospital group such as Ennis, Nenagh and St John’s; and when the team is due to report back. [22720/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (10 May 2022)
Martin Browne: 832. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 557 of 4 May, the remit of the specialist or expert team that has been deployed to University Hospital Limerick as part of an emergency plan to ease crisis levels of overcrowding at the hospital; the date that team was deployed; if the team will visit other hospitals within the group such as Ennis, Nenagh and St....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (11 May 2022)
Martin Browne: 257. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 521 of 4 May 2022, when the assessment of University Hospital Limerick’s patient pathways is expected to conclude; if the specialist team tasked with ascertaining the additional resources that will be deployed to alleviate the current pressures being experienced in the emergency department will have to wait until...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Insurance Coverage (12 May 2022)
Martin Browne: 193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has been contacted by the owners of thatched buildings many of which have a particular heritage value who are unable to secure insurance for their buildings; his views on whether this poses a threat to the future conditions of these buildings; his plan to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)
Martin Browne: No apologies have been received.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)
Martin Browne: I thank Mr. Walsh for contacting the committee with this petition. Understandably, there are challenges there for our environment in what it is facing. A petition like this is especially timely and I believe it is worth examining. It must also be noted that the petitioner is raising a matter of public health and particularly when it comes to the safety of public spaces such as playgrounds...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)
Martin Browne: This has always puzzled me, that if a person goes to spray with a knapsack, he or she must have the training and all of that done for using the knapsack and the spray bottle, but a private person doing the same thing does not have that training. Will Mr. Walsh make the distinction between pesticides for public use and those for professional use? With regard to the call being made by Mr....
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)
Martin Browne: Mr. Walsh is calling for it in public.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)
Martin Browne: Will Mr. Walsh outline whether he is calling for further restrictions on insecticides as well as fungicides and moss and slug killers?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)
Martin Browne: The law is there, as set down by the Department, but the local authorities can get around it. There is a loophole there which means they can use pesticides. Is that correct?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)
Martin Browne: Thank you Mr. Walsh. Deputy Buckley is next.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)
Martin Browne: Senator Warfield is next.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)
Martin Browne: Is Senator Warfield happy with that?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)
Martin Browne: Mr. Walsh is giving us the alternative. What could we as a committee do? Deputy Devlin said we will write to the Department but, specifically, outside of that, is there anything Mr. Walsh would recommend? Perhaps the committee could go to the Department or write a letter to the local authorities stating that X, Y and Z works in Strokestown or wherever else-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)
Martin Browne: -----and should be implemented all around the country. Is there something outside of that letter that Mr. Walsh feels the committee can help with?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)
Martin Browne: We have agreed to write to the local authorities and to the Department. Outside of a letter, though-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)
Martin Browne: I know what Mr. Walsh is saying about rural areas and letting the pollinator flowers and so on grow. I assure him, however, that if weeds start to grow on the footpaths in a housing estate, we as public representatives will be hit with demands to get the council up and to get rid of them, no matter how. I know from experience - and I am sure the other members will tell Mr. Walsh the same -...