Results 2,141-2,160 of 4,399 for speaker:Martin Browne
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)
Martin Browne: The Committee on Public Petitions has discussed the technical side of the nature restoration target over the past month or so. A chap attended that committee to highlight the problem of the widespread use of pesticides in public areas by local authorities and others. Now the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine spoke to us about sustainable use and stipulates that pesticides...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)
Martin Browne: I want to get an answer to the question I asked earlier about the pesticide aspect of the nature restoration target. We had a petitioner before the Committee on Public Petitions who raised concerns. Does the risk assessment show the use of pesticides is necessary? Are risk management measures being put in place? If enacted, what will the restoration target do to address that? We know the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)
Martin Browne: I appreciate that Mr. Curley cannot give me the answer, but could we get an answer in writing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA (5 Oct 2022)
Martin Browne: I thank Mr. Curley.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (4 Oct 2022)
Martin Browne: 164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will confirm that no household will have their electricity turned off by their energy provider this winter (details supplied). [48406/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (4 Oct 2022)
Martin Browne: 460. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the delays in payments to persons hosting Ukrainian refugees (details supplied). [47936/22]
- Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)
Martin Browne: I am happy that Deputy Cahill got those phone calls in the first ten or 12 hours because, since then, listening to our local radio station, Tipp FM, there is a great deal of disquiet among our constituents in Tipperary about the gaps that are left by this budget and the number of people who will fall through them. A budget of this size should have given people certainty that they will be...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (29 Sep 2022)
Martin Browne: Apologies have been received from Senator Buttimer. All those present in the committee room are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. Are the minutes of our previous private and public meetings of 14 and 15 September approved? They have already been approved in our virtual private meeting, but we must do this now...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)
Martin Browne: Our next business is our engagement with Ms Katie McNelis, petitioner, on petition No. 00036/21, reform of information for thatched heritage buildings. Before we start, I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practices of the Houses regarding references witnesses may make to other persons in their evidence. The evidence of witnesses physically present or who...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)
Martin Browne: I have a few points before I allow other members to contribute. I agree with Mr. Darby's last statement that if something is not done urgently we will lose thatched buildings. I am from Tipperary and Holycross Abbey comes to mind because of the thatched buildings there. It would be a sin to lose thatched buildings from around the country. It is terrible to think that Ms McNelis's mother...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)
Martin Browne: No action.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)
Martin Browne: Is it Mr. Darby's experience that thatching heritage buildings are being pushed off the radar? What needs to be done to address the problem he and others in his position are facing?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)
Martin Browne: It is crazy to be obliged by law to return the building to its listed state if something were to happen, as Ms McNelis said in her opening statement. Her mother could face two years in jail or a fine of up to €12.7 million if she fails to do so.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)
Martin Browne: I will call Deputy Buckley first and then Deputy O'Donoghue.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)
Martin Browne: We have been raising this matter with the Minister since 2001 and it has gone back and forth. There will be a report, however, which the Minister of State, Deputy Malcolm Noonan, has indicated should be finished by the end of this month or the beginning of next month. I hope that will provide some answers and get things moving.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)
Martin Browne: Were people only contacted in the middle of September regarding a report that is supposed to come out at the end of September?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)
Martin Browne: If the report was supposed to be out by the end of September-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)
Martin Browne: -----and the owners were only contacted in the middle of the month, that shows a clear lack of respect for people caught in this situation. I see Mr. McDonnell has his hand up in Teams. What are the witnesses' views on the study? Are they confident that things may change?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)
Martin Browne: I call Deputy Devlin.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)
Martin Browne: I call Deputy O’Donoghue.