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Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: Is that agreed? Agreed. That concludes our consideration of public petitions this afternoon. I would like to 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. Next on the agenda is...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: First today is Petition No. 52 of 2022, Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign. Our next business is engagement with Dr. Colm Henry and his colleagues from the HSE in respect of Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign. Before we start, I will explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the Houses as regards references witnesses may make to other persons in...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: Could that be sent to the committee and we will circulate it to all members in the complex and ask them to share it on their social media and so on to help raise awareness?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: 24. To ask the Minister for Health if the site on which St. Patrick’s Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary is located is suitable for the development of a new 60-bed residential care centre at St. Patrick's Hospital; the other site options being explored for this purpose (details supplied); when it was decided that other site options would be considered; what prompted the exploration of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: 176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons the 2023 grant allocated to Tipperary County Council for the N24 Cahir to Limerick Junction road project, at €1 million, is far below the sum of €3,250,000 requested; if there is an intention to address this shortfall in funding; his views on the impact this will have on the ability of the project to progress...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units delivered via the cost rental equity loan, the affordable housing fund and project Tosaigh in County Tipperary for each of the years 2016 to 2022; and the number planned to be delivered in 2023, with a breakdown of units per scheme and average price of units by unit size, in tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for CAMHS appointments in the north Tipperary and east Limerick LHO; and if he will provide a breakdown of the figures for those waiting between three and six months, between six months and 12 months, and 12 months and longer. [18750/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: 381. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for CAMHS appointments in the south Tipperary LHO; and if he will provide a breakdown of the figures for those waiting between three and six months, between six months and 12 months, and 12 months and longer. [18751/23]

Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: In a report published by the European Commission last year Ireland was ranked as the worst country in Europe concerning judicial resourcing at 3.27 judges per 100,000 people in 2020. To say this was below the European average is to be kind. The truth of the matter is that the European average is 17.6 judges per 100,000 people. There is a real deficiency there. I am also reminded of the...

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: I also thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and the Social Democrats for bringing forward the motion. The number of residential properties recorded as vacant in December 2022 was 83,662. That is a significant stock of unused properties and if the correct incentives to dissuade people from allowing their properties to sit idle were in place it would go some way to addressing the housing shortage in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: I welcome my colleague Deputy Claire Kerrane to the committee. I think she will do a very good job. Deputy Carthy is a hard member to replace but I think we have got a good replacement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: Looking through the IFFPG's documentation, I see it receives 75% of its funding through the recycling levy. Mr. Moloney mentioned bring centres around the country that collect 90% of the plastic for recycling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: Are the four approved collectors located at the bring centres?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: An issue has been raised by independent collectors who feel they are not getting a fair share. The IFFPG only collects 70% of the waste. Independent people are collecting the rest of it and are not getting any share of the levy. Is there a reason for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: That was my next question. Is Mr. Moloney saying IFFPG has to achieve 70% but is collecting over 90% of the waste around the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: IFFPG collects 100% of the levy, but if 100% of the plastics are not collected, what is the situation? What is the excess money used for in that situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: Of plastics collected in one way or another but not recycled, how much is being stored around the country? Does IFFPG record in real time how long yards have been hanging on to those plastics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: Are those yards being cleared out based on the length of time plastic is there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: How many yards is plastic being stored in? Is the Department aware of any more outside of those it collects on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Recycling Farm Plastics: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Martin Browne: What is the status of those sites? Are they operational or closed pending compliance with regulations or anything? What regime does the Department employ to keep track of that?