Results 861-880 of 4,399 for speaker:Martin Browne
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: Deputy, every hospital in the country faces that.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: I do not think-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: I will stop you there, because I do not think either the committee or staff agrees. This clouds the problems that the witnesses are trying to highlight.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: Do you wish to come back in, Deputy O'Donoghue?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: I have just three quick questions myself before we finish up or before anybody else comes back in. We hear from the Ministers about the minor injury units, MIUs, and so on and that they would take the pressure off the emergency department. What feedback are the witnesses getting from people who cannot access the likes of them and who finish up in the emergency department in Limerick?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: If they were on a 24-7 basis, would it take pressure off?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: The witnesses have been asked about meeting various groups. Have they ever been offered any opportunity to discuss this with the likes of the Minister, the CEO and so on? Have those in power ever offered to sit down around a table with them?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: So, from the health forum, that request-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: But no one outside of that forum who had known the witnesses were a group of concerned people ever made an offer-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: I was going to come to that. It has been explained that we apologise as a committee and that it was an administrative error. The witnesses are here, and what we want to do going forward is cut down this list a bit that they gave us in order that we can get some of these people in and try to start to answer the questions the witnesses have asked of us. I am quite sure there are many other...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: That is what I propose. If someone will second me, we will do that. We will get three or four off the list of ten the witnesses have brought in and we will sit them in this room again in order that the members can quiz them on the witnesses' behalf. Would they be happy with that, that over-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: The secretariat will be in contact with the group and we will cut down that list and start trying to move it on as quickly as we can in that way. Senator Eugene Murphy is not here. Deputy O'Donoghue, do you have any more-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: Before we let the witnesses go, does anybody on behalf of the group wish to make any closing statement?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: I can guarantee you, and I can speak for the rest of the committee, that we will move this on as quickly as we can. It is slow trying to get answers from the Departments and from Ministers and so on, but I say on behalf of us and on behalf of the witnesses and other petitioners, that the staff and the work they do are unbelievable. We will try to move this on as quickly as we can.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: That is probably something on which we as a committee can contact the Department on the witnesses' behalf and try to move.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: Was it ever put to the Minister or the Department that even if the MIUs were 24-7 at this stage, it would take massive pressure off-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: On behalf of the committee, I thank Ms Moran, Ms McMahon, Ms Tonge and Ms Delaney. As soon as we hear anything back, we will try to get those answers for you. We will try to get people in before us here. As soon as we get that, there will not be the same delay again. We promise you that. The meeting is suspended for five minutes while the witnesses leave the room.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: There are nine petitions for consideration so we will go straight into them. The first petition is No. 35 of 2022, "Amend Child Care Act 1991 to provide HIQA with the necessary powers to sanction Tusla, Child and Family Agency when it fails to meet its statutory obligations”. This has been submitted by the Alliance of Birth Mothers Campaigning for Justice, known as ABC. ABC is...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: I am looking at one section here: It is the Ombudsman for Children’s opinion that the imposition of sanctions (and we are assuming it is a financial sanction that would be used) on Tusla when they are found to be non-compliant might form a barrier to the efforts to reach compliant levels. It could also have a chilling effect on innovation and trying new ideas. The fear of staff, or...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 Nov 2023)
Martin Browne: Yes.