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Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: I appreciate the opportunity to discuss this Bill. The general scheme was discussed in some detail at the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. As such, the needs of the various organisations have been expressed and discussed. For too long, our farmers have had to navigate a market in which they have been expected to accept the prices they receive and the conditions to which...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: ...charges that result in a higher cost of living. This is because there are either no alternatives or, if there are, they are outside people's financial reach. We see this in the retrofitting scheme, which favours those with disposable incomes, and in the grants available for electric cars, which favour those in particularly affluent areas and who have money to spend on prestige vehicles....

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Martin Browne: ...some very real problems. There are also issues of crossover with companies such as Eir. A constituent contacted Eir at the end of last year when a salesman told him that fibre broadband under the NBI scheme was available to his home. When he contacted Eir, they signed him up for an installation. When the day arrived, they advised the customer that there was a porting issue at their...