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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: 566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an allowance in the school transport scheme will be made for the parents of a child with additional needs to send their child to a school other than the closest one to them if it is better equipped for their child’s needs. [21587/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: 567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for bus tickets under the school transport scheme in County Tipperary by year; and the number of appeals to decisions under the scheme by year. [21588/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (28 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: 593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who has been refused a school bus ticket to Newport due to the fact that Doon is 300 metres closer to their home. [21999/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (28 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: 766. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made towards giving Thurles and Clonmel university towns status; the approximate date by which such status will be formally announced; the requirements such status will make of his Department in terms of further investment in the Thurles and Clonmel campuses; his views on the benefits this status will give to County Tipperary as...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (28 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: 1134. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the way the number forestry licences with ecology input processed between November 2020 to February 2021 equates to one licence per ecologist per week given that 21 full-time equivalent ecologists have been employed; his views on whether this work rate is below that which is needed to address the crisis in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (28 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: 1135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has engaged or employed an ecologist from outside the State to assess forestry licences. [21353/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Veterinary Medicines: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: I welcome the witnesses to the committee. What is the Health Products Regulatory Authority's, HPRA, overall view on the use of the licensed merchants? Could the HPRA foresee a way, whether it is through upskilling or attaining additional qualifications, that they could continue to keep hold of their corner of the market. The HPRA opening statement says "Anthelmintic resistance in parasites...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Veterinary Medicines: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: I welcome the witnesses to the committee and thank them for coming before us. Given we are seeing new regulations coming in that will have an impact on licensed merchant businesses with qualified persons throughout rural Ireland, are the witnesses saying it is their belief licensed merchants and their qualified persons have been issuing too much of these medicines? We have also heard the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Veterinary Medicines: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: Ms Muldoon said people can source the products in the same places but we all know that, even if the merchant has to wait five days to get it, the farmer cannot afford to wait five days. This cuts down the farmer's options, and he must then go to a vet. He may have been using the merchant all his life, but now, with the new system and a five-day delay, it does not give him an option because...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (22 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: I thank the Minister of State for his response. The problem I have raised is an example of how the importance of mental health provision in this country is continuously overlooked. We discussed that during the debate on Deputy Ward's motion that was passed earlier in the week. People like Jack are suffering because of a poorly provisioned mental health service. The World Health...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (22 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: I thank the Minister of State for taking the time to hear this matter. I am becoming increasingly concerned about the ability of children and young adults with special and complex needs and disabilities to access the psychological services they need. This is an issue that has presented itself to me on a number of occasions since the first lockdown last year, when I was approached by the...

Common Agricultural Policy Reform: Motion [Private Members] (22 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: I thank Deputy Pringle and the Independent Group for tabling the motion. Detailed scrutiny is foremost in determining whether an obligation signed up to on behalf of our rural and agricultural communities will work for or against them. For the purposes of ensuring that the fears of those farming on carbon rich soils are on public record, I will relay a number of questions and concerns to...

Mental Health Surge Capacity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: I commend Deputy Ward on identifying the need to bring this motion before the Dáil and on the work that has gone into compiling it. The measures he is bringing to the House are proposed as a six to 12-month emergency response to the needs that are building in our society, a society which has traditionally been served by an underfunded mental health sector. I have been speaking to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (21 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: 552. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of the empty and vacant OPW buildings across the State by county; the length of time each of the buildings has been vacant; and the annual cost of retaining these buildings on the OPW portfolio. [19073/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Control (21 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: 762. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department consulted with tillage farmers regarding the National Parks and Wildlife Service suggestion that open season on wood pigeons be removed. [19687/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Control (21 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: 763. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the National Parks and Wildlife Service suggestion to end the open season on wood pigeon shooting; the studies the Service has undertaken on the issue of crop damage by wood pigeons; and the number of farmers were involved in these studies. [19688/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Control (21 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: 764. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether wood pigeons are not a threat to tillage and horticulture crops; if a provision in legislation will be made for same as a game bird (details supplied); and if he will ensure responsible hunting will not be impeded by his Department as with other game species. [19689/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme (21 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: 954. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a recent application by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary for funding for emergency works to ensure the safety of staff and pupils; and if funding will be made available to the school. [18556/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (21 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: 1208. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons from north County Tipperary that are referred to refuge accommodation in counties Limerick and Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2020 inclusive; his views on the lack of a refuge in north County Tipperary; his further views on the pressure it puts on such services in counties Limerick...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (21 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: 1237. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the way the irregular location of certain child and family support networks such as play therapy may pose a barrier to the implementation of a successful intervention in the lives of a family requiring that service locally. [19576/21]