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Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: We have had a good discussion. I will shortly allow Senator Murphy and Deputy Devlin to come in. Before I do, I suggest that we ask the secretariat to write to both petitioners and get clarity. If we get that clarity, we will bring the matter up again at our next private and public meetings. If we get clarity and we have exhausted that process, we will put out an invitation to the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: We had said we would have representatives of the health committee in when we talk to the HSE.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: It is up to the committee.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: We can ask the secretariat to give us an update at our next private meeting in two weeks' time.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: What has been said already is that petitions come here and we move them on to the health committee, if we feel-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: It had come here first and was sent on.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: We can find out what the situation is because there is uncertainty.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: What was the Senator's suggestion?

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: We will ask the secretariat to-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: We will ask the secretariat to contact the health committee and other committees to see if there is a crossover. I will say, as Senator Craughwell and Deputy Buckley have said, there is an urgency to this. We will also get clarification from the petitioners themselves if they have been with the regional health committee. If they have, we will try to fit them in over the next one or two...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: The next petition is 44/21, which relates to Wexford County Council. There was a recommendation during the private session that the correspondence from Wexford County Council would be forwarded to the petitioner for comment. Do members have any views on that? No. That concludes our consideration of public petitions. I invite members of the public to submit petitions via our online...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: I thank members for attending and taking part. I thank also the committee secretariat and those involved in helping to run these meetings. We will adjourn until 11.30 a.m on Wednesday, 16 February 2022, when we will meet for a virtual private meeting, to be followed by a public meeting at 1.30 p.m. on Thursday, 17 February 2022.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petitions on Unauthorised Developments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: I thank Mr. Nixon-King and Mr. Kehoe for their opening statements, and I thank both organisations for attending. I understand the witnesses cannot comment on any issues that are the subject of ongoing legal proceedings. We all respect that. I would like to know who is responsible for whatever is on or adjacent to the River Shannon. Having read the correspondence on the matter from...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petitions on Unauthorised Developments: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: I would be very careful about asking any of the witnesses a question of that nature.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: I do not think so. Is Deputy Buckley on the Committee on Health?

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: I am not sure but I would imagine they probably have done so.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: They have come this far and to the best of my knowledge they have exhausted every avenue that was open to them. Listening to them might bring in extra work but if we start putting obstacles in front of community groups like the St. Brigid's hospital committee and the Owenacurra centre committee, we will finish up having nothing to do because no one in the public will have any faith that an...

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: Like Deputies Pringle and Sherlock, I refer to the 30-day rule and how it compares to the rest of Europe. I was not in the previous Dáil. Those on the Opposition bench did agree to 30 days but they are surely entitled to seek an extension to help fishermen. The 30 days is not long enough. That is the idea we have been trying to change the Minister's mind about by tabling amendments....

Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: The Minister knows the position of Sinn Féin and the Independent Deputies to my left on this Bill. We are not opposed to penalty points and neither is the fishing industry. We have stated that repeatedly but the system must be fair. This scheme is not fair and we have made that point previously. We have introduced this amendment because allowing the future livelihoods of fishermen to...

Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: Deputy Carthy has outlined exactly why it is important that no more of these headlines appear in the Irish Farmers' Journaland so forth. To have trust in the sector out there, there must be trust here in the House. If we are not being informed of what is going on at the start, then the whole scheme or any scheme, whether it is that of the Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine or of...