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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (24 May 2022)

Martin Browne: 616. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to expand the availability of the freestyle libre device for persons with diabetes in Ireland. [25937/22]

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Martin Browne: The plans the Minister of State has announced in the strategic plan for the NPWS are to be welcomed insofar as they constitute a commitment to expanding funding and service as the need for an agency that is fit to play its part in our collective response to the biodiversity emergency, as the Minister of State has put it. The establishment of the new directorates within the NPWS is welcome...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (19 May 2022)

Martin Browne: 209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the provisions that are in place to address the delay in providing NCT appointments (details supplied); and if he plans to provide an extension for those effected by the delay. [25490/22]

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Martin Browne: I also thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and the Social Democrats for bringing the motion before the House. It gives us the opportunity to speak for the thousands of families that the failed policies of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael over the years have locked out of housing. Tipperary has witnessed a house price increase of 14.3% year on year, according to the latest daft.iereport, but it does...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Architectural Heritage (18 May 2022)

Martin Browne: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 12 May 2022, if he will provide further details on the study into issues with insuring thatched premises; the way that owners of thatched properties can become involved in the study; the progress that has been made to date in the study; if there is a deadline by which the study...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 May 2022)

Martin Browne: 211. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the National Patient Safety Office’s feasibility study into remunerating service user family member carers; if this study involves the service users, family members, carer's and supporters engaging in services in resource centres such as a centre (details supplied); the date this study is likely to conclude; if service users, family...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Services (17 May 2022)

Martin Browne: I thank the Minister of State for discussing this matter with me today. I am talking about the funding needs of the great service that is provided by the Irish Community Air Ambulance. As the Minister of State will be acutely aware, the service provided by the Irish Community Air Ambulance has saved many lives and prevented injuries sustained by people from becoming life changing. Whenever...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Services (17 May 2022)

Martin Browne: I appreciate that the Minister of State is taking this matter on behalf of the Minister. The reply written for the Minister stated, "I reassure the House that the Government is strongly committed to supporting the strengthening and reform". We are being told the Minister did not even respond to the service for a couple of months when it asked him first, although he did eventually come back...

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 May 2022)

Martin Browne: I appreciate that the purpose of this Bill is to reduce waiting times and the costs that are associated with claims for malicious injuries to a member of An Garda Síochána in the course of their work. It must be noted that current backlogs in the High Court have resulted in some cases taking as long as four years to progress from the initial phase to its conclusion. When legal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (17 May 2022)

Martin Browne: 660. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1554 of 26 April 2022, if he will provide a breakdown of staffing vacancies within CDNTs in CHO 3 and CHO 5 based on professional disciplines. [24234/22]

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?