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- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: Just to be clear, if the HSE wants to redact a name I or others would not have any great issue with it, but to react whole sections of meetings is different.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: Yes.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: They should be able to stand over it.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: Yes.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: Okay. I will give Deputy McGrath seven minutes.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: I would say Deputy McGrath has probably as much to say as us all, so I want to give him the same amount.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: This is apolitical-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: The commitment we are giving relates to the implementation of Sláintecare right across the board. If each party implements it, we will not be sitting in these committee rooms arguing about what is happening. I call Deputy Buckley.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: There are just a couple of comments for Ms Mullins. We all know the background. We also know that one of the excuses given for St. Brigid's closure was flooding. We had a great deal of heavy rain since, and councillors Dunne and Burke have been out in the floods down there. However, to the best of my knowledge, the St. Brigid's site has not been flooded since the witnesses were last here....
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: It never flooded, as far as we all know. It was just another excuse that the HSE gave at the time.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: To come back to the new building there, the HSE is talking about closing St. Brigid's because of flooding. It will tell you the geniuses we have at the top of the HSE that they would come in and spend, I think, €2.7 million to build a state-of-the-art facility on a flood plain and start throwing out those excuses. We have seen in Cashel - Deputy McGrath was at the meeting on that -...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: Does Ms Curtis and Ms Mullins want to make a brief closing remark? I am conscious that time has dragged on. It has been a long meeting at three and a half hours. Do they have any closing remarks they wish to make?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: On behalf of the committee, we can assure the witnesses that we will not let it go. I will not say the treatment the HSE has given is as bad as what it has given to the communities, but it is not good enough that the HSE or Departments treat any committee or any location the way it has. I assure the witnesses that we, as a committee, will not let it go. We will have the HSE before the...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: There are five petitions for consideration today. The first for consideration is Petition No. P00021/22 regarding Kiltimagh water scheme from Mr. Tom Carney: We are a village of about twenty families in Kiltimagh, County Mayo. The age ranges between twelve months and 88 years old. We have never had a drinking water supply in our village. We started back in 2012 working with Mayo...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: I agree. In 2023, that any families would be in houses without water is crazy. It just goes to show that, as we have always said, Irish Water is one of the biggest quangos that was ever set up, and it has done absolutely nothing to improve our water system, as far as I am concerned. We hear daily in our offices that there are constant boil water notices and water supplies are being turned...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: A pattern is forming throughout the country. We spent two and a half hours of the first part of this meeting on the issues at Owenacurra, St. Brigid's in Carrick-on-Suir and Loughrea, and here is another one that is more or less exactly the same. All the reports we are getting about these closures are almost cut-and-paste. The only difference is the front cover of the reports. Is the...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: That is agreed. Petition No. P00012/23, regarding justice and safety, is from Mr. C.J. Gaffney. The petitioner stated: We are calling on the Government to compensate us out of the European Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) which was offered at our meeting in Brussels and confirmed by the documents and radio interview contained in the links below by Irish MEP´s and senior...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: Much work has gone into this and we do not know what the outcome will be. We hope that if there are loopholes, they will be closed such that no one else will be caught in these circumstances. Is that agreed? Agreed. P00018/23, "Guarantee the European legal standards for all Irish citizens in all European states", is in the name of Mr. Carles Pujol. The petition is that the Irish State...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: That concludes our consideration of public petitions this afternoon. I invite members of the public to submit petitions via our online portal, which is available at petitions.oireachtas.ie. A petition may be addressed to the Houses of the Oireachtas on a matter of general public concern or interest or an issue of public policy. Is there are any other business? Would members like to make...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jul 2023)
Martin Browne: I wish to be associated with those remarks. As Chair of the committee, I think I speak for the rest of the committee as regards the amount of work that goes on behind the scenes. To Karen, Barbara, Alex and the rest of the team, thank you for making our job easy and have a good holiday. We will see you in September, unless there is an emergency in the meantime. I thank Karen and all the...