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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Martin Browne: I have two more questions and then I will let others in. I ask the witnesses for their views on head 38(4)(a) which states "where the complainant so requests, the Office shall take the necessary measures ... for the appropriate protection of any other information in respect of ... [the] members or suppliers ... [etc.]". Rather than the reference to requesting, should confidentiality not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Martin Browne: I will come straight down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Martin Browne: I am sorry. We will have to suspend. A vote has been called in the Dáil. I apologise to the witnesses. We have been called away again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Martin Browne: I wish to ask a couple of questions about head 8. In the absence of a ban on below-cost selling, an analysis of costs and margins along the supply chain may be needed to compare profits with the amount for which the product was purchased from the supplier. What is Retail Ireland's view on doing that? If the office took that approach, would it encounter resistance from the sector? What is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Martin Browne: The ICMSA has said in its submission, in respect of the food retail sector, that there should be specific reporting requirements on food retail firms that exceed certain thresholds to supply information and data on the profit margins they obtain on specific food items. That obligation should apply to large-scale food retailers where the scale of activity is above certain thresholds. Will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)

Martin Browne: On a related question, which Mr. Dillon has probably just answered, what kind of information does Retail Ireland foresee retailers refusing to give the office? Would that information be of a significantly sensitive nature and would it be considered inappropriate to furnish the office with it?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (5 Jul 2022)

Martin Browne: 103. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applicants for the fully funded retrofits under the warmer homes scheme each year for the past five years, per county, in tabular form. [35528/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (5 Jul 2022)

Martin Browne: 104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of households approved for the fully funded retrofits under the warmer homes scheme each year for the past five years, per county, in tabular form. [35529/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (5 Jul 2022)

Martin Browne: 105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average wait time between submitting an application for the warmer homes scheme and receiving approval, per county, over the past five years. [35530/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Jul 2022)

Martin Browne: 211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is prepared to allow local authorities to take emergency measures to address the chronic shortage of housing available in many parts of the country. [35415/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 Jul 2022)

Martin Browne: 212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review into income limits for social housing, given that he stated that a review of income eligibility was under way in 2021. [35416/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (5 Jul 2022)

Martin Browne: 671. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been progress made on the pay increase due to kitchen staff working in the HSE given that many staff have been waiting several years for the pay increase. [35413/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (5 Jul 2022)

Martin Browne: 672. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to children in need of urgent dental work facing wait times of several years (details supplied); and the measures that are in place to address this issue. [35417/22]

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Martin Browne: This Bill is welcome insofar as it abolishes hospital inpatient charges for all patients under 16 years old, but it is emblematic of the snail's pace of the Government's progression to universal healthcare. It appears the provisions of the Bill are less about achieving universal healthcare than about keeping up the appearance of trying to achieve it. While it is an important step for the...

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Martin Browne: This Bill is the direct consequence of poor preparation and a lack of forecasting with respect to the schooling needs of children with special needs. The Ombudsman for Children’s latest report into the matter pointed out: "This situation is a clear failure on the part of the State, which has an obligation to respect, protect and fulfil the right to education of every child." It also...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Martin Browne: Homeowners in counties Donegal, Mayo, Clare, Sligo, Limerick, Tipperary and up to seven other counties are living in buildings that were built with defective blocks, foundations and other damaging materials like mica and pyrite. They are feeling the impact of light-touch regulation of building product surveillance that was introduced by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in the 1990s. This has...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2022)

Martin Browne: Respect the Chair, Deputy Griffin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Martin Browne: Under head 45, "Appointment of authorised officer", it states, "The Chief executive may appoint in writing such persons or classes of persons as he or she considers appropriate to be authorised officers for the exercise of all or any of the functions conferred on an authorised officer under this Bill". What criteria or qualifications would be required for that role? Is it enforcement,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Martin Browne: The functions of an authorised officer include inspecting at all reasonable times any premises if he or she is carrying out official activity. He or she can examine documents and records, inspect vehicles and demand the production of documents or access to places. There is a lot in it. I wanted to know about the criteria. Have we people in mind who can cover all that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Martin Browne: Deputy Carthy has covered it. There was a request for it to be extended to three years. For clarity, is this the time period referred to in head 38(5)(c) that the office "may decide not to investigate a complaint referred to in subsection (1), or to discontinue an investigation of a complaint" on the ground that "the practice complained of occurred at too remote a time to justify investigation"?