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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: No thought is being put into what training is being provided and that needs to change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: Deputy Fitzmaurice hit on something there on which I want to come in. When does the funding for Embrace FARM start?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: I see. I suggest the committee write to the Minister to see if we can get a long-term pledge that kind of funding would roll over for more than one year. I appreciate €300,000 is grand for one year but I imagine from all the work our guests have detailed to us, that it will go very quickly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: I imagine that for the long term, our guests want to know now that projects can continue beyond 23 October next year. I suggest it would be appropriate that the committee write to processors, the IFA and all those bodies. The kind of work being done by Embrace FARM is priceless. The sum involved is a pittance when you consider the anguish and distress families go through, and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (2 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: 126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans to make the warmth and wellbeing scheme available to homes outside of the currented limited pilot areas. [52050/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: 320. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide clarification on the rules for teenage discos as part of the reopening announced recently. [52715/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: 531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to an application by a school (details supplied); and her views on whether there is a need for more ASD units in rural areas which necessitates units in smaller schools. [52704/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (2 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: 812. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on orthodontic treatment for the 2007 patients transferred to private providers under the Framework Type Agreement 3983 as referred to in Parliamentary Question No. 747 of 15 September 2021 in each of the years 2016 to 2020; the services provided by those private operators on behalf of the HSE; if those private operators provide dental...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (2 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: 821. To ask the Minister for Health the process involved in identifying the patients who qualify to be transferred from the HSE to private providers under the framework type agreement 3983 for orthodontic treatment; and the way patients can secure such a transfer given the lengthy waiting lists. [52127/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: 955. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for an appointment in Jigsaw Tipperary for video and phone support appointments and face-to-face appointments. [52660/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: 970. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on the recommendation for an additional nurse specialist post for the neurology service in Limerick Hospital which was submitted as part of the 2021 estimates process by the National Clinical Programme for Neurology. [52705/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (2 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: 995. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with lived experience of mental health challenges who are employed to support recovery and recovery education in each CHO in the years 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and the funding made available to employ these workers in each CHO in the same period. [52814/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (2 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: 1212. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown between EU versus Exchequer funding in the allocation of €180 million for the Leader programme in the indicative allocations for pillar II (rural development) measures. [52556/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (2 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: 1213. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the meetings that he held with the Minister for Social Protection in respect of the allocation of LEADER funding as per the indicative allocations for pillar II (rural development) measures. [52557/21]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: Deputies Collins and Ó Murchú have just said what I was going to say. The entire Bill is totally unfair to the fishing community. The fishermen themselves are not against a penalty points system but it must be fair. As has been said, as we go through the Bill we will be pointing out where it is totally unfair to the industry. We would ask the Minister to reconsider this...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: We understand the purpose of the amendments the Minister is trying to bring through. The intention is to form a basis for a wider document and the amendments are designed to give effect to a scheme. We are not opposed to penalty points and neither are the fishermen, as has been said here already. We are opposed to the flawed and profoundly unfair scheme presented to us. It is impossible...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: We find this amendment reasonable and we will support it. Not everything is as cut and dried as the Department seems to consider it to be in this sector.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: I concur with Deputy Collins. This is one of the fundamental issues we have with the Bill. We are introducing this amendment because allowing future livelihoods to depend on the loose balance of probabilities is plain wrong. Sinn Féin's and Deputy Collins's amendment tries to resolve that. How many people working in the fisheries industry, or indeed in any industry or even as an...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: I concur with the two previous speakers. Both of these amendments go to the very heart of the unfairness of this scheme and there is no point in saying anything different to that. As Deputy Collins has said, Irish fishermen must be treated the same as these big international boats. Even in the event of a successful appeal to a conviction on the balance of probability, it is just crazy...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (27 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: I move amendment No. 10: In page 14, lines 27 to 29, to delete all words from and including “regardless” in line 27 down to and including “concerned.” in line 29 and substitute the following: “subject to the outcome of any criminal proceedings in respect of the serious infringement concerned. Where a Master or Owner is found not guilty in such...