Results 541-560 of 4,009 for speaker:Martin Browne
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: She did not get it until recently. A review was carried out by the secretariat-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Yes. To be fair to the secretariat, we were in correspondence with-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: -----the Minister's office and let it know the petitioner had responded. We have a slot on 18 November, for which no meeting has been scheduled, but I propose we invite in the petitioner on 9 November.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: The petitioner has the reply at this stage.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: That is debatable. The next available date after that is 23 November, which is getting up on top of Christmas. It is up to the committee. The petition has been before us for a while.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: We have had correspondence over and back with the petitioner, just not in respect of that one reply. There has been continuous correspondence with the petitioner over the past 12 months. To be fair, the petitioner has been patient. I do not mind. We can leave it.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: I do not think we came to any agreement on what we were going to do. We said we would discuss it today.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: That is up to the committee. I am just saying we have an available date if we want to bring in the petitioner on 9 November.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Is the committee happy to bring in the petitioner on that date?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: If the petitioner has responded to us by next week, we will invite her in for 9 November. We will wait to get the reply and then we will see what we will do.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: No. P00036/2023, entitled "Failure of the 2005 Disability Act in providing a provision of services to children in need of disability services particularly in Cavan/Monaghan", is from Mr. Ronan Whitmarch. The petition relates to the lack of staffing of the children's disability network team, CDNT, and primary care; the impact on children, parents and families due to long waiting lists; and...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: The assessment of need process, the amount of time it is taking for children to get an assessment and the staffing of the CDNTs are issues that everyone in this House has been contacted about on a regular basis. It is a disgrace that children with needs are being failed. Even if they get an assessment fairly quickly, it is just a box-ticking exercise as far as I am concerned. They are...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: We will ask HSE estates to give us that information.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: I would imagine so. We will write to the HSE and seek that information. Once we get that correspondence from the HSE, we will consider what to do next. The recommendation thus far is that the correspondence from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth be forwarded to the petitioner for comment and that the committee writes to the Ombudsman for Children...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Next is No. P00008/23 in which the petitioner, Mr. Declan Brosnan, calls for legal netting of an endangered species, namely, Atlantic salmon, in Castlemaine Harbour to be stopped. Castlemaine Harbour is classed as a special area of conservation, SAC, where salmon are an actual quantifying interest. The petitioner maintains that the number of salmon returning is at an all-time low and...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Next is No. P00022/23, requesting a referral to the Supreme Court of the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022. The petitioner, Mr. Stephen J. Delaney asks that the President of Ireland, Mr. Michael D. Higgins, when asked by the Houses of the Oireachtas to sign into law the aforementioned Bill or any variation of same, would immediately refer it to...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Next is No. P00024/23 from Mr. Alexander-Marckus Edwards which relates to electric scooter safety standards and requirements. The petitioner refers to a recent press release stating that powered personal transportation, PPT, or electric scooters should conform to a weight limit, including battery, of 25 kg and a power limit of 500 W. The petitioner alleges that these limitations will make...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Petition No. 26 of 2023, submitted by Ms Áine Daly, calls for equal opportunity for HSE counselling positions. The petition relates to the exclusion of National Association for Professional Counselling and Psychotherapy, NAPCP, members from the eligibility criteria for counselling positions within the HSE. The NAPCP is one of several independent regulatory bodies for counselling and...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: No. The recommendation is that the correspondence from the HSE be forwarded to the petitioner for comment within 14 days. Pending the response from the petitioner, further action, if any, will then be decided by the committee.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)
Martin Browne: Petition No. 27 of 2023, entitled "Who will guard the guards themselves?", is from Ciaran McMahon. The petition relates to the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022 and its potential to quell opposition on topical issues such as climate change, gender and so on. The petitioner suggests that a solution for modern hate could be banning social media...