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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: ...and children were treated like very few others in society. Their pursuit of truth, justice and their own histories has been beset by obstacles. These include records that are missing or were destroyed - deliberately or otherwise - accounts misrepresented, as we have seen in recent times, or accounts not being given the context they deserved. Over the years these people looked on as they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Martin Browne: Does Mr. White have confidence that this will take place going forward, whereby the safeguards will be there to protect us from the likes of that? The ash is destroyed at this stage for no other simple reason than people were not listening or people were not doing their job. Can the public feel safe that those kinds of measures will prevent anything else like that from happening again?

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Martin Browne: ...of us using it for five minutes. After just half a day's training, we got a document stating we were able to spray, taking into account wind and the whole lot. I could spray here and it could destroy the whole room. Does the matter of who gets a licence to spray, especially in public areas, need to be tightened up as well? As Mr. Walsh said, if it is in a person's own place, it is not...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Martin Browne: ...County Council to access the affordable housing fund. We are calling for all local authorities to be allowed to access the affordable housing fund and to stop this practice of exclusion that destroys lives and severely affects families. The unambitious affordable purchase home targets must be revised to deliver an average of at least 4,000 affordablepurchase houses per year from 2022 to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticultural Industry: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (21 Sep 2021)

Martin Browne: ..., but that is putting extra cost on them, and with the cost of equipment and all that it will just not be feasible for them. If the Minister of State was working in an industry that was being destroyed in this manner, would he be happy with a Department that seems to have shown no urgency and that has done nothing to help it? This is not a personal attack on the Minister of State but...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Mar 2021)

Martin Browne: ...word this morning that EBS is pulling out of Tipperary town. The programme for Government makes a big thing out of the rebuilding of rural Ireland. Since the Government took power, it has been destroying rural Ireland. It is time the Taoiseach and the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, intervened here so that local and small businesses will have someone who supports them. EBS pulling out of...

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Martin Browne: ...written report, she is also one of those whose testimony was said to have been deleted and she is among those who strongly dispute the commission's claim that she was told her testimony would be destroyed. Injustice was visited upon this woman even before she was sent to one of these institutions. I regret to say she continues to be failed to this very day. This lady said that when she...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Feb 2021)

Martin Browne: ...of those accounts in providing information that could lead to the resolution of questions which are thus far unanswered; if survivors, when being interviewed, were all informed of the intention to destroy the records in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6753/21]

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Dec 2020)

Martin Browne: ...health bodies are fully briefed of any occurrence of Covid-19 in their places of work. They need to believe that the Government is there for them. This week alone, the Government has practically destroyed any sense of solidarity with workers in certain sectors. Our nurses, midwives and student nurses are an example. Yesterday, I asked the Taoiseach to ensure that nurses who have worked...

River Shannon Management Agency Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Nov 2020)

Martin Browne: ...are set back. This can come at a significant cost. Businesses in parts of the county see footfall drop off as water levels on Lough Derg rise above a certain point. Others have seen their stock destroyed. The problem is made worse because insurance companies will not cover them. It disheartens me that there are homeowners and business owners in my county who know they will be impacted...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Martin Browne: ...were given no choice but to sign away their newborn babies. It was a base for baby trafficking and, as I have described it, human trafficking. Lives were forever changed and, in some cases, destroyed. We cannot cover that up. The Clann Project contains accounts of how forced adoption has impacted so many lives since. One person said that as they grew older, they felt a sense of loss...