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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: We have spoken numerous times to the Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners, which has raised the particular issue of clearing ash dieback on the roadside. For the record, can the witnesses give people an idea of the financial costs and layout and level of responsibility on the landowners to do this by themselves? Can they give the committee an idea of how costly it is to remove infected...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: How does the expected nature restoration law play into our afforestation targets and ability to make plans? Given that plantations may be deemed to be in the wrong place and fall foul of it, what ability do we have to prepare for a situation like that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: I thank the witnesses again. Everything has been asked at this stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: If that continues at its current pace, how soon will we hit the serious problems to which Mr. Glennon is referring? It is not going to be 20 or 30 years' time. Will it be in five or ten years that we find ourselves with serious problems?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: Most of what I was going to ask has been answered at this stage. We heard from the last speaker another example of the frustration among stakeholders in the sector when they talk about the two Ministers. I am not going to blame any one of them. Both of them are responsible here. Every time we have a meeting about forestry, that frustration comes across from everybody. There is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: Why is the Department not giving those guarantees to the smallholders to improve things? Every time a group such as the IFA comes here to discuss this matter, nearly to a man and to a woman they tell us about the lack of clear communication between the sector and the Department. What is the blockage? Why is it happening on a regular basis? Why is it coming up? Nearly every second meeting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: On ash dieback, the Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners have raised infected roadside trees with me on a few occasions. They have spoken of the significant costs associated with removing the trees infected with ash dieback. For the record and for the information of anyone watching, what level of responsibility is on land owners to do this by themselves? What is the financial outlay?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: Sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: Have we any idea of the level of sales lost due to the ash dieback? How much has been lost to the sector itself? If 100% reconstitution was granted, in an ideal world, what new planting arrangements would have to be rolled out?

Health (Amendment) (Dual Diagnosis: No Wrong Door) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: I commend Deputies Ward and Gould for this Bill. It provides for something that has been missing for far too long. We need only ask the voluntary organisations that try to fill the gaps left by the State. They will describe the level of demand they have for the services they provide in the area of combined addiction and mental health and how the State does not provide for it adequately....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (16 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: I am not sure. I thought the Minister for Health was going to be here. He knows the situation. I am not having a go at the Minister of State but it is a joke that we are here again asking questions of a Minister for Health who has not appeared. The Minister of State has confirmed that it is a 60-bed unit. This reply states that it may be built on the existing site or on a new site. That...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (16 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: What did it get wrong?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (16 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: In the response to the parliamentary question, there is no mention of the other site raised in the reply the Minister of State has given me today.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (16 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: I know. I appreciate that. I said that. It is a disgrace that the Minister has not turned up again.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (16 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: I am raising this matter because of the lack of clarity I received in reply to a parliamentary question about a 60-bed unit that was supposed to be built in St. Patrick’s Hospital, Cashel. We were told the money for the project was ring-fenced years ago. The response I received to that parliamentary question moved to discuss a 50-bed unit. I received an amended reply today that has...

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (16 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: I welcome everybody to the meeting. All those present in the committee room are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. The first item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes of our private and public meetings on 8 and 9 February 2023, respectively. They have been approved at our virtual private meeting, but for...

Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: Before we start, I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the Houses as regards references to other persons witnesses may make in their evidence. The evidence of witnesses physically present or who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts is protected, pursuant to both the Constitution and statute, by absolute privilege. Witnesses are...

Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: Is the cause of the hold up the fact that the issue is across Departments? Should it be the remit of one Department?

Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: Could Mr. Deering give us a quick outline of proactive measures being taken by his office regarding the issue of homelessness?