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Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Martin Browne: He might keep in touch with our secretariat and provide us with any information we need.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Martin Browne: I hope Mr. Walsh will be back before us not too long down the road and that we will have had good results.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (12 May 2022)

Martin Browne: We have five petitions for consideration. Petition 14/22, on raising the upper age limit in the Defence Forces, is from Mr. Stephen Martin. The petitioner considers that current upper age limits for joining the Defence Forces are restrictive and, as a result, there is a risk the Defence Forces are missing out on suitable candidates who are keen to join but cannot because of their ages. The...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (12 May 2022)

Martin Browne: Are we agreed that we send the Department's correspondence to the petitioner for comment and that Ms Semple and the rest of the secretariat add it to the work programme, if time allows?

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (12 May 2022)

Martin Browne: Petition 19/22 is from Mr. Joseph Guerin. The committee secretariat advises the petition is deemed inadmissible, as per committee Standing Orders, and the secretariat will notify the petitioner of our decision. Do members have views on this?

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (12 May 2022)

Martin Browne: Petition 24/22, on a 100% redress compensation scheme for victims of defective concrete blocks and aggregate and not a grant, is in the name of Ms Mary Morrison. This petition is about houses that are affected by defective blocks and aggregate such as mica and pyrite. The petitioner has concerns about the proposed Government redress compensation scheme and questions about planned...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (12 May 2022)

Martin Browne: To make the committee aware, there is also a petition before the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs on this matter and legislation is in the pipeline. Is it agreed?

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (12 May 2022)

Martin Browne: Petition 43/21, on supporting access to employment for non-EEA PhD students' spouses, is from Mr. Fernandos Ongolly. This petition was brought to the attention of the Department of Justice by the committee secretariat. The Department has responded by stating that non-EEA nationals who wish to come to Ireland to work are generally required to seek an employment permit first, following which...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (12 May 2022)

Martin Browne: Petition 2/22, "Homelessness is Cancer - blocked up houses are not a cure", is in the name of Mr. Eamon Broughan. This petition was submitted on 28 January and relates to a housing estate in Kildare where houses were bought by the county council several years ago and have been blocked up since. The committee secretariat contacted Kildare County Council about the petition three times but did...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (12 May 2022)

Martin Browne: I take it that that is agreed. That concludes our consideration of public petitions this afternoon. I invite members of the public to submit petitions via our online portal, 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. No. 4 on our agenda is any other business. Would...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (12 May 2022)

Martin Browne: I echo that. Coming in today, I did not know what we were facing into. I found it very interesting to hear all the views from Cork and Kildare up to Roscommon. I thank the secretariat for all the work it has done for us.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Martin Browne: I thank Senator Buttimer. The Ceann Comhairle, Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl, and the Cathaoirleach, Senator Mark Daly, have published a Covid-19 code of conduct for the parliamentary community, March 2022. Face masks should continue to be worn when people are moving around the campus and during the meeting except when speaking. This will help to reduce the risk of Covid-19...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Martin Browne: They are shown how much to mix.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (11 May 2022)

Martin Browne: 257. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 521 of 4 May 2022, when the assessment of University Hospital Limerick’s patient pathways is expected to conclude; if the specialist team tasked with ascertaining the additional resources that will be deployed to alleviate the current pressures being experienced in the emergency department will have to wait until...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Martin Browne: The number of people who are either locked out of homeownership or even locked out of rental accommodation is genuinely staggering. Leaving the statistics aside for the moment, all Deputies know from the calls they get to their offices that there is a fundamental problem with the availability of accommodation. No family type is immune to this, be it families with young children, single...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Martin Browne: For example?

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Martin Browne: The SDLP did as well.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Martin Browne: I want to start by congratulating those who were elected in the Assembly elections over the weekend, especially my Sinn Féin colleagues. There are 524 vacancies across the 91 children's disability network teams, CDNTs, at the moment and that is out of 1,982 so-called approved positions. That means one third of positions in CDNTs across the country are vacant. It is more or less the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (10 May 2022)

Martin Browne: 711. To ask the Minister for Health when the expert team will be deployed to University Hospital Limerick; if the team will visit other hospitals within the UL hospital group such as Ennis, Nenagh and St John’s; and when the team is due to report back. [22720/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (10 May 2022)

Martin Browne: 832. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 557 of 4 May, the remit of the specialist or expert team that has been deployed to University Hospital Limerick as part of an emergency plan to ease crisis levels of overcrowding at the hospital; the date that team was deployed; if the team will visit other hospitals within the group such as Ennis, Nenagh and St....