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Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (20 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 525. To ask the Minister for Health if an estimate has been carried out to determine the cost of reopening the emergency department at Nenagh Hospital; to produce any analysis of such a measure that may have been commissioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7428/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 628. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No.1368 of 7 November 2023, if details can be provided to the precise location of property being considered for purchase (details supplied); if he and the HSE will engage locally on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8044/24]

Commissions of Investigation (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: I thank and commend Deputy Kathleen Funchion for bringing forward this Bill. Like the speakers before me, I hope the Government will support it. The Bill is important because it seeks to ensure that certain members of any future commission of investigation, into whatever issue it is established to explore, cannot simply discharge their duties upon submission of its final report without a...

Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: Communities across the country are seeing the closure of restaurants and other small businesses. In Tipperary town, we recently saw two such restaurants closing down. It is worrying that such a situation has been allowed to arise in a town that has been allocated a task force because of its level of deprivation. We have seen similar closures in Carrick-on-Suir and other towns around the...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: Every community has its own tragic story to tell about road accidents and more sadly, road deaths. No more so than last year which saw a 20% increase in fatalities, and a dreadful 12 months in my county, Tipperary. Yet the Government saw fit to cut the road maintenance and road safety budget by €150 million. Does the Government see this opportunity here today to whitewash that and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (13 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 589. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the need to repurpose the nightingale beds at University Hospital Limerick to provide a more immediate increase in capacity at the hospital, rather than decommissioning them; to outline any engagements he has had on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6455/24]

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: I welcome everyone to our public meeting. We have received apologies from Deputy Emer Higgins. Before we start, I wish to express the condolences of the committee to John Bruton's immediate and extended family. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. The secretariat sent a letter this morning on behalf of the committee to the family. The question is that we approve the minutes of the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: We have six petitions for consideration today. The first is petition No. 00033/21 entitled “Call for a Citizens Assembly on the Irish Justice system; Policing, Crime and Rehabilitation” from Mr. Cormac McKay. This petition relates to the request that the then proposed citizens' assembly on drugs be expanded to encompass the entire justice system, policing, crime and...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: Is that agreed? Agreed. The second petition is No. P00035/22 entitled “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” from Ms Anna Kavanagh. The Alliance of Birth Mothers Campaigning for Justice, ABC, requested that the committee initiate the necessary steps to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: Before the Deputy continues, the Minister has said he was not available on this date. The invitation is still there.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: As I said, the Minister has said he was not able today. The invitation is still there for the Minister to come. We have had the petitioners in here already and we want the Minister and the other people. It is disappointing that the four people who were asked to come in today have not come in. I will read out the letter that they sent in December because that is one the reasons, they say,...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: If the Minister gives us a date we will accommodate him instead of giving him dates.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: All he needs to do is give us a date and we will accommodate him.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: I acknowledge that at the end of the letter, the HSE reiterates and admits there is a problem there but as I said, I would prefer that it would come in here before us at a committee so we can question it on what its solutions are. Writing a letter telling us that it does not need to appear in front of an Oireachtas committee is not good enough as far as I am concerned. I imagine that...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: I propose we send the invitation back out to the Minister and the HSE that those whom we invited to come today would come again to one of our meetings in the near future. There was a list the petitioners gave us that day of about ten or 12. If we fail to get the Minister and so on the next day, we will get in contact with the petitioners and try to arrange that someone else whom they were...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: The next petition is petition No. P00024 /23 on electric scooter safety standards and Requirements in the name of Alexander-Marckus Edwards. This petition relates to the recent press release that states that PPT's, electric scooters, should conform to a weight limit, including battery, and power limit of 500 W and 25 kg, respectively. The petitioner alleges that these limitations will make...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: Petition No. P00006/23, cost of generic pain relief medications, in the name of Ms Charline White. The petition relates to a request to cut and cap the price of generic over-the-counter pain relief medications, such as paracetamol, ibuprofen and aspirin. Sufferers of chronic pain rely on these and it is completely unfair to price them as they are. At a local pharmacy in Wexford town, a...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: I thank Deputy Buckley. 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. The next item on the agenda is any...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: Not yet. We will be getting the Minister in.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on his engagement with the hospitality sector in 2024. [5673/24]