Results 181-200 of 220 for long speaker:Martin Browne

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (20 May 2021)

Martin Browne: ...Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the way short-term funding for services provided by family resource centres such as counselling and therapy inhibits same from being able to guarantee long-term services; the way short-term funding of this nature can have an impact on the progress being made by persons availing of mental health supports; and if he will make a statement on the...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Martin Browne: One thing we can say about this Bill is that it is welcome, but it is also a long time coming. For too long, our farming communities and small business owners had their futures put at risk by the Government despite their being vital contributors to our economy, exports market and reputation. It is welcome that sense has finally prevailed and the way in which these sectors have been...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Schemes (19 May 2021)

Martin Browne: 54. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on ensuring that funding schemes are in place, such as the long-term SBCI future growth loan scheme, for businesses in line with the reopening of society as per the announcement of 29 April 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26677/21]

Private Security Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2021)

Martin Browne: ...is action that prevents vulture funds or the privileged from hiking house prices and causing soaring rents. We need a housing policy that takes the sense of hopelessness away from those on our long local authority housing lists. Without this we will continue to have young families being terrified that they will have nowhere else to go or having to settle for substandard accommodation for...

Committee on Public Petitions: Update on Direct Provision: The Ombudsman (11 May 2021)

Martin Browne: ...the same level of immunity from legal proceedings as a witness who is physically present. Witnesses may think it appropriate to take legal advice on this matter. Witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not criticise or make charges against a person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable, or...

National Autism Empowerment Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: ...to seek one. With all due respect, parents in this situation do not elect to seek a private assessment. They find themselves with little or no choice but to do so because the public waiting lists are so long and time is of the essence when it comes to getting treatment for their child. It was a completely disingenuous response from the HSE. The legal requirement to carry out an...

Covid-19, Mental Health and Older People: Statements (29 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: ...but that was a pretext for closure. We have since been given flimsy reasons as to why it should not reopen. Elderly and infirm people who are at their most vulnerable now face the prospect of no longer being able to stay within their community as they once could. What impact is that having on their mental health and that of their families? At the other end of the county, in...

Mental Health Surge Capacity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: ...well as removing medical card accessibility barriers to counselling in primary care. I urge everyone here to support this motion today. Every family in this country deserves it. After that, however, we need long-term ambitions that can be acted upon immediately. If that is beyond the capability of this Government, maybe it is time for another one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Proposed Amendments to the Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: ...that this issue has been addressed? Will the officials confirm if they have relayed the concerns of our farmers to their counterparts elsewhere in the EU? Will they also negotiate a way to give long-term assurances to those farmers not signing away their land concerning their ability to actively farm forever? Is it possible to give those assurances to farmers?

Committee on Public Petitions: Work of the European Ombudsman during Covid-19: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Martin Browne: ...the same level of immunity from legal proceedings as a witness who is physically present. Witnesses may think it appropriate to take legal advice on this matter. Witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it...

Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021)

Martin Browne: ...in the course of the national conversation on the mother and baby homes. It involves interference from that arm of the State that was involved in creating a secretive and closed system that had long-term impacts on any people. Legal adoption, which was first introduced on 1 January 1953, meant that an adopted child passed as the natural offspring of the adoptive parents, with no...

Committee on Public Petitions: Irish Ombudsman Forum: Discussion (9 Mar 2021)

Martin Browne: ...the same level of immunity from legal proceedings as a witness who is physically present. Witnesses may think it appropriate to take legal advice on this matter. Witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it...

Rural Equality Bill 2021: First Stage (17 Feb 2021)

Martin Browne: ...services. People in my constituency are sick and tired of being left without and told it is in their own interests. The communities of Carrick-on-Suir and Roscrea in Tipperary have been told that long-stay convalescent beds are being torn away from their communities and their loved ones are to be looked after further from those localities at a time when the ability to travel around our...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Feb 2021)

Martin Browne: ...disease control by failing to designate a competent authority at ports and airports; the reason Ireland has been non-compliant for approximately a decade; the progress being made to address this in the long term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8491/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (16 Feb 2021)

Martin Browne: ..., which is crazy when people are working to such tight deadlines. Before this meeting, we were told that the alternatives to peat moss can form only part of the overall volume of growing media. How long would it take to develop a suitable alternative that is independent of peat moss, or will we be importing moss peat for the foreseeable future? Are we back to the usual scenario of...

Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Martin Browne: Throughout the course of this pandemic the Government has made a habit of prolonging uncertainty for as long as it can. Since 6 January Sinn Féin has called for the existing rates of the employment wage subsidy scheme, EWSS, to be extended to give workers some certainty, and for the supports that have been in place to continue. The Government, in its usual way, delayed and delayed in...

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (27 Jan 2021)

Martin Browne: ...financial burden on the shoulders of our workers while all the time we have unpaid student nurses and are reluctant to invest properly in housing for our citizens. This culture must be addressed. As long as the rich can use our laws to work their way around the obligations that apply to the rest of us, we will continue to have a long way to go in protecting our own financial interests....

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Martin Browne: ...to provide further transparency about these years. They are also obliged to address these wrongs through an examination and acknowledgment of our past. Our survivors have been ignored and let down for long enough. They cannot be failed any more.

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2021)

Martin Browne: .... With this in mind, the Collins review of student nurse and midwife pay during the pandemic must be published immediately. Hiding behind unpublished reports in order to avoid acknowledging the long hours and the physical and emotionally draining work with which they are faced ends now. The decision to pay students lies with the Minister for Health. Suggesting they be paid €100...

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

Martin Browne: ...Covid-19 would not have to pay their annual retention fees. The Taoiseach refused to give a commitment on that. Last night, all the Government parties voted against paying our student nurses for the long hours they have worked in our underfunded health service. Today, we hope the Government will come back to reality and recognise the challenges faced in workplaces across this...