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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: The Taoiseach said earlier to Deputy Canney that he will not wash his hands of the people of Galway. That is great news. However, the Government has washed its hands of retained firefighters in this country. I question its commitment to them. Retained firefighters had to return yesterday to the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, because of the failure by the Government to deliver the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: Will we have just words again or will the Taoiseach act to support the people who put their lives on the line for us every day of the week?

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: This debate is necessary, especially in light of the fact that the matter to which it relates is subject to a vote at EU Council level. That vote, it must be remembered, has been delayed, which, in itself, sends a key message about the current composition of the nature restoration law. There can be no doubting the very fact that nature is facing a crisis. On a global level, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: I thank the Chair for letting me in. I welcome the Limerick and Tipperary growers back to the committee. We had them in several times when I was a member of the committee. I have a few quick questions. From the 1990s on, farmers were encouraged to plant forestry. It was for profit, and so be it, but they were guaranteed forestry would be on an equal footing with all other sectors and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: I agree with Ms McCormack. The question was whether this is going to be the answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: The smaller grower is being hurt by that too. Ms McCormack referred to a figure of €1.3 billion. Is that the figure that was given for the one-size-fits-all approach?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: Regarding the difference between the €2,000 and the €7,000, the €2,000 was being offered for small saplings and the €7,000 was being offered for-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: For the overall sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: If I came across as making out that the witnesses were in it for profit, I was just saying that they were encouraged to go into it, and if they made a profit, fair play to anybody who did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: It is the same as any sector in the industry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: The stance taken by the Department, which it is rigidly sticking to when it has been told it is unworkable and is ignoring the knock-on effects, is a disgrace. We have said in this committee before that it is a disgrace that the witnesses are being treated like this. How does the Department hope to encourage people like the witnesses to go into the industry now to have timber in 25 or 30...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: Is Ms McCormack saying it is too late to encourage people now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: We all acknowledge that we have a problem now with the lack of timber and with ash now gone. We will have a serious problem down the road, as Deputy Mythen said, if people are not coming into it regularly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: I thank the witnesses. Finally, I have a statement to back up what was said earlier. If we are not careful, if the Government Departments do not learn their lessons and the black beetle gets in, as ash dieback disease got in, the whole industry will be in danger of collapsing. Have the witnesses any confidence from talking to the Ministers that they are capable or that they even appear to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: It does not help when it is imported.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Scheme: Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Limited (12 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: I thank the witnesses for the presentation.

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: First, I want to focus on special education from the perspective of teachers who have contacted me. A letter was sent to me by teachers in a school in my home town of Cashel. They say they believe that disability should never be a barrier to achievement but it is becoming increasingly apparent, with the increasing scarcity of resources and lack of services, that their school community is...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: 616.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a number of section 39 workers have not received the pay increases that have been agreed to; if he is aware of how this is impacting on the ability of certain organisations (details supplied) to recruit staff into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24904/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (11 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: 681.To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to increase the availability of the GP in Cappawhite, County Tipperary, from three days a week to five days a week, in light of demand and the difficulty some people experience in accessing the GP in Doon, County Limerick, on the days the Cappawhite service is closed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24642/24]

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Martin Browne: I welcome the Palestinian ambassador to the House and those who were in the Gallery earlier. I also want to thank those who have supported the Palestinian people down through the decades and are continuing to do so. Sadly, the recognition of the State of Palestine has been a long time coming. It is ten years since the Dáil unanimously passed a Sinn Féin motion calling for this to...