Results 1-20 of 45 for cork speaker:Martin Browne

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Martin Browne: ...finds serious non-compliance in one or more standards inspected. HIQA does not have the power under the Child Care Act 1991 to sanction Tusla. The latest report published by HIQA, 8 June 2022, found the Cork service area which has 26% of the total child population of Ireland, was compliant in just two of twelve standards inspected. The secretariat received a response from the Ombudsman...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)

Martin Browne: ...at Glasnevin Cemetery. The following councils support the Invincibles Reinterment Campaign, namely Dublin City Council, Galway County Council, Westmeath County Council, Wexford County Council, Cork City Council, Tipperary County Council, Louth County Council, Sligo County Council, Cavan County Council, Carlow County Council, Clare County Council, Mid Ulster District Council, Laois County...

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (21 Mar 2024)

Martin Browne: I am told that Cork County Council and the OPW have responded and the response will come up at our next meeting.

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

Martin Browne: ...of which find serious non-compliance in one or more standards inspected. HIQA does not have the power under the Child Care Act 1991 to sanction Tusla. The latest report published by HIQA on 8 June 2022 found the Cork service area, which has 26% of the total child population of Ireland, was compliant in just two of 12 standards inspected. The secretariat received a response from the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (25 Jan 2024)

Martin Browne: We have ten petitions for consideration today. The first is No. P00042/21, from Ms Joanna Curtis, which is about saving the services at the Owenacurra centre in Midleton, County Cork. The clerk received an email from the petitioner thanking the committee for all of its support, seeking advice on how to close the petition given that the Owenacurra centre is going to be rebuilt. Two homes...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: ...damage caused by the recent storms. Many of these property owners (even if they have insurance) will not have flood cover because the insurers may have removed it from their policies. Whilst we support such actions it seems strange and unfair that flood victims from Midleton, Co Cork get State support, but uninsured thatch fire victims like Laura Lindholm and her family in Co Offaly did...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: ...Ireland's opposition to installing bus shelters. Take my town of Cashel, which more than 400,000 people visit every year. I know they do not all use buses, but we have buses going to Cork, Dublin and Limerick and now Local Link. We expect people to get out of their cars and stand in the pouring rain. To the best of my knowledge - I may be wrong - in County Tipperary there are only...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: Our next business is engagement with Mr. Joe Ryan and his colleagues at the HSE regarding the closure of vital health services in counties Galway, Cork and Tipperary, which relates to Nos. P00020/23, P00042/21 and P00048/21. Members of Loughrea concerned citizens group for the Seven Springs day centre, along with members of St. Brigid's action group and Ms Joanna Curtis for the Owenacurra...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: ...minutes taken of a meeting and no engineers' reports with reasons; it was a matter of opinion. We all have opinions but our opinions and those of the HSE affect families in Tipperary, Galway and Cork. If the HSE or the estates part of that body is making decisions that result in the closure of places, the reasons should at the very least be in the minutes, especially when a committee...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: ..., my opinion, if it were out there, would affect thousands of people. Opinions of employees of the HSE who sat at a meeting have affected thousands of people throughout the country, in Galway, Cork, Tipperary and many other places. We have all sat on the likes of school boards and residents' associations. Minutes are taken of meetings, even if the meeting is about no more than sweeping...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: I appreciate that but he went to Cork to see the Owenacurra centre from where people are being moved. They are being moved to St. Stephen's and St. Finbarr's hospitals. Surely as CEO, when he was checking Owenacurra centre, he should have visited the places to which patients were being moved as well, especially when concerns had been raised about those two hospitals?

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Martin Browne: Today we have three different groups and three sets of witnesses to speak to us on issues around the HSE closure of vital health services in counties Galway, Cork and Tipperary. The first set of witnesses will be invited to give their opening statement. This will be followed by questions and comments from members to those witnesses. Then the next set of witnesses will give their opening...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Martin Browne: ..., we are behind their fight. We have dealt with it before. We will get the HSE back in again. We want answers because these situations are affecting every one of our communities from Galway to Cork. As I said, there are way more coming. Every month that the committee sits, there is another place being closed down. We wish the witnesses the best. We hope to have them back in front of...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Martin Browne: ...made that 350 beds were not going to be lost at that stage. I believe this is the reason all the smaller hospitals are being targeted bit by bit. As regards the provision of services in the wider Cork area, where there appears to be a lack of consistency in the services provided, what would Ms Curtis like to see now in the east Cork area?

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Jul 2023)

Martin Browne: ...No. P00011/23, concerning undocumented migrants housed without consultation, is from Ms Catherine Sheehan. She stated: Renovation work commenced on unused building on Gerald Griffin Street, Cork in early March 2023. Two front facing windows were replaced. A week later outside of building power washed. A week after power washing took place contractors Better Built Homes commenced work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Policy and Strategy (Resumed): Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: ...foresters or the small farmers. It will drive up the price of land so it can do the forestry it has committed to Coillte that it will do. It will not care about the small man in Mayo, Tipperary, Cork or any place else. Its aim is to make money for its investors. If that is at the expense of the foresters or the small farmers who have kept our industry going, make no mistake about it,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: ...but the plan is a stopgap measure that still falls way short. Like I said, 667 out of 3,000 is a start but it is still does not come anywhere near what is actually needed in places like Waterford, Cork and Dublin. They have been left out of it. We are seeing the consequence of decades of underinvestment and now demand is outstripping supply. At least it is now being recognised that the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on Taking in Charge: Mr. Terence Coskeran (13 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: ...around the country need to take this on board. This is the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage stating it has responsibility. It is not acceptable for local authorities in Tipperary, Cork Galway or wherever to pass the buck on and back. It is just going around in circles and people like Mr. Coskeran are being caught and are suffering.

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: ...was ARFID. It could not offer a service as it had no psychiatrist trained in the area of eating disorders yet it wanted to administer a drug for anxiety. The family then turned to Éist Linn in Cork, which despite initially agreeing to take him on, subsequently refused him on the basis that it would be able to treat anorexia nervosa but because the linked condition of ASD is neither...

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee
Consideration of Public Petition on Saving the Services of the Owenacurra Centre in Cork: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2022)

Martin Browne: .... Therefore, any member who attempts to participate from outside the precincts will be asked to leave the meeting. Our next business is the engagement with the officials from the mental health services at Cork Kerry Community Healthcare, Cork Mental Health Services and Capital and Estates HSE South of the HSE board on Petition No. 00042/21 on saving the services of the Owenacurra...