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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Discussion (9 Jun 2021)

Martin Browne: In the Department's opening statement this morning, the officials spoke about the potential for serious loss of eco-scheme funds in the event of a lower than expected take-up. They stated the loss of funds issued must be addressed through flexibilities, including the Council's general approach. They stated they are focused on this proposed learning period over the first two years of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations: Discussion (9 Jun 2021)

Martin Browne: What are the organisations' views on the fact that the situation has become so severe that there is talk of holding demonstrations this Friday across the country, including in Cahir and Nenagh in Country Tipperary? The impact assessment of the Mercosur trade deal has been delayed. I was speaking to IFA members from south Tipperary recently. They feel they are being made to jump through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Martin Browne: I thank the Chair for letting me substitute for Deputy Cullinane. I welcome the witnesses. There are a few issues that I wish to raise. If I run out of time, written responses will suffice. A lot is made of care in the community and we hear about it often. Despite the constant references to how important it is to care for people in their own communities in rural Ireland, district care...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Martin Browne: I would like direct answers to the following questions. How long will it take to deliver each of the three elective centres? What capacity will they have? What will each centre actually cost? How will the integration of primary and community care work through the community healthcare networks? How will the networks work in practice and what services will they provide? Finally, has there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Martin Browne: I would appreciate if I could receive a written reply on the St. Brigid's District Hospital issue in particular, please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Martin Browne: I accept and appreciate that we will receive written answers and I will not hold up the meeting anymore on this as there are many more people waiting to make a contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health (9 Jun 2021)

Martin Browne: Gabhaim buíochas.

Mental Health During and Post Covid-19: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Martin Browne: I am sharing time with Deputy Martin Kenny. When Covid struck, the country went into firefighting mode because we were battling a threat about which very little was known. Decisions were made and restrictions imposed that have affected every man, woman and child, with impacts on emotional, mental and physical health. While it is understandable that very difficult choices had to be made, it...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (3 Jun 2021)

Martin Browne: 87. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the establishment of a task force to examine the future of retail in Ireland. [29959/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (2 Jun 2021)

Martin Browne: It would help a lot of people.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (2 Jun 2021)

Martin Browne: I am raising this matter because, after all that our schoolchildren and their families have been through over the past 12 to 18 months, they can do without the seemingly endless bureaucracy and battles they face in securing school transport. Every year, parents in Tipperary are left struggling to get spaces on school buses under the school transport scheme. In some instances, people have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (2 Jun 2021)

Martin Browne: The Minister can read from a script like that all she likes, but the rules of the scheme are not reflective of the reality of rural schools and their large catchment areas. In a letter about the school transport scheme for children with special educational needs, the Minister told me that "children are eligible for transport where they have special educational needs arising from a diagnosed...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Water Services (1 Jun 2021)

Martin Browne: 110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the possibility of introducing a scheme that would provide funding to local community centres, sports centres and other such premises for rainwater harvesting systems; the research that has been carried by his Department into such systems; his views on whether funding or contributing to the funding of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Jun 2021)

Martin Browne: 252. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the employment wage subsidy scheme which is due to end on 30 June 2021 given that many businesses such as bars which have been closed for extensive periods will have just reopened when the scheme ends; his plans to provide additional supports to businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29810/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (27 May 2021)

Martin Browne: 7. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the amount of time that administrators in family resource centres spend making applications for funding. [28597/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (27 May 2021)

Martin Browne: I want to raise with the Minister how administrators and managers of the family resource centres spend a massive amount of time making applications for funding. I also want to raise the fact that the existing funding streams are too short.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (27 May 2021)

Martin Browne: I appreciate the Minister recently met the family resource centres but so have I, and I have been involved in the resource centre in Cashel since we built it. An amount of time is wasted and taken up by managers and administrators looking for funding. Let it be said that at times it is minuscule funding. The amount of work these managers and administrators put into running the centres is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (27 May 2021)

Martin Browne: We all agree the family resource centres are a model for providing therapeutic and drop-in services but in some cases the funding is so scarce that these centres find themselves unable to provide assurances to service users that the service they require will continue to be provided. In a recent discussion on mental health with the centres, they spoke of dealing with people who are ready to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (27 May 2021)

Martin Browne: 37. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the potential of family resource centres to play an enhanced role in providing counselling and therapy services in the community; his further views on providing these centres with more long-term funding to facilitate same and to provide a greater level of certainty in the ability to continue to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (27 May 2021)

Martin Browne: 126. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some foresters and tree surgeons have seen their insurance premia increase by over 100% since 2020; his plans to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28795/21]