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- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: Yes, no bother. The Senator will not get any objection to that. We have nine petitions for consideration today. Petition No. 21 of 2021 is "Taking in charge" - Mr. Terence Coskeran. This petition relates to the request that the local authority take in charge a residential development of five houses at Rocksprings, Kilross, County Tipperary. The secretariat corresponded with Tipperary...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: Mr. Terence Coskeran.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: Yes. He built them in 2004 and had an agreement with the council that once everything was done with regard to its planning at the time, it would take the estate in charge. Later, Irish Water was formed and this is where it is with the developer provided water services infrastructure.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: The report says it is only approximately €50,000 to connect it to the council system. The reply from the Department sheds some light on the situation there and outlines two main issues. The first issue is whether Tipperary County Council has significant capacity to take the wastewater from the treatment plant. The second issue is the wider examination being undertaken by the...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: Seven local authorities have not responded. One of the three outstanding city councils has responded while the other two have not at this stage. The secretariat sent a reminder to them yesterday. We will look at that next time. Petition No. P00015/22 from Ms. Eileen Kelly McCarthy concerns Castlemartyr community hall. The secretariat corresponded with east Cork municipal district on...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: Is the recommendation agreed? Agreed. Petition No. P00017/22 from Ms Rebecca Smyth concerns lower outpatient waiting times for urgent cases. The secretariat corresponded with the HSE on this petition on behalf of the petitioner and, following a request for further information, the HSE replied and set out the process for managing patients and waiting times. It further advised that, in...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: That concludes our consideration of public petitions. I invite members of the public to submit petitions via our online portal at petitions.oireachtas.ie. A petition may be addressed to the Houses of the Oireachtas on a matter of general public concern or interest or an issue of public policy. Would members like to make any final comments?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: I appreciate where the Senator is coming from. He brought this matter up previously and there was agreement that was what should be done. As he said, Covid put a stop to it all. I cannot see any problem with that being organised. It would benefit the committee and start to raise awareness throughout the country if we hold three or four meetings in a year in the provinces and advertise...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: I do not think there are any legal considerations stopping us. The only matter is that of the precincts for public meetings. We will ask the secretariat to check it out.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: I second the Deputy's comments. Given the experience of people like Senator Murphy, we should go when asked. Covid stopped it all and I am sure those kind of requests will come again. On the Deputy's final remarks on the secretariat, I want to make public what I said at the private meeting yesterday. Some petitioners were giving out that nothing was being done but the amount of work the...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: They do.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: I understand some members of the public are frustrated that they are not getting answers they want or things are going slowly. I assure every member of the public who sends in a petition that the secretariat works full pelt, morning, noon and night. It must be frustrating for themselves that correspondence is not coming back from Departments or county councils as quickly as we would all...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: This is the last one. We talked yesterday about doing one on 14 July, the day we are to break up, but we decided that, if possible, we will bring in St. Brigid's and Owenacurra on 7 July as well.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: We have a three-hour slot. It has not been ever taken up, but we are saying that. Mr. Paddy Lynn sent in a petition about chefs and making them a special category of work to be put on the critical list. That is the first half of the meeting. We will bring them in before the recess. It was raised that the week of 14 July will be flat out. That is the week we all break up.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: Right.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: The committee is adjourned, if there are no other issues, until Wednesday, 6 July 2022, at 11.30 a.m. for a virtual private meeting, to be followed on Thursday, 7 July 2022 by a public meeting at 1.30 p.m.
- Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: Even though the personal injuries guidelines came into effect last year, many groups and organisations have still not felt their benefits. The Alliance for Insurance Reform has found that liability premiums have actually increased by 16%. The same survey found that 42% of organisations which responded believe that insurance costs have put their future in jeopardy. While those increased...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: I welcome the witnesses as well. In terms of clarity, was the increase in the contractual purchase price Ornua has come up with based on the ability to absorb the costs and current prices or did it have anything to do with the increased input costs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: I assume that the fixed price scheme is based on the products at the other end of the chain. What are they? Do they include cheese? How does the process work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Milk Price Contracts: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)
Martin Browne: Is there a way of linking the contract price to the cost of inputs? Has that been explored?