Results 141-160 of 4,055 for speaker:Martin Browne
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I call Deputy Conway-Walsh.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: It is a question we can ask in the second part of the session when Mayo County Council will come before the committee.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: Does Deputy Conway-Walsh wish to come in?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I just want to say a few words and then I will let Mr. Carney in. In this day and age, to have a whole community without water is a disgrace. I was on a county council and I know that all the talk is about clusters and bringing people from the big urban areas to rural areas, but people cannot settle in any area, rural or urban, without water. Like Mr. Ivers, I grew up in a family of 11...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: Mr. Ivers gave us one of the reasons the groups were given for the delays. What is the witnesses’ view of the specific reasons for the delays? Would they lay the blame for the delays on Mayo County Council or Uisce Éireann? Did matters improve or get worse when Uisce Éireann was formed? They would have been dealing with Mayo County Council before Uisce Éireann was...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: The witnesses were given assurances that the grants were obtained and that the project had gone out to tender. When were they given those assurances?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I have no more questions. Unless anyone else is offering, I call Mr. Carney to make his closing statement.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I thank Mr. Carney and Mr. Ivers for attending the meeting. This discussion has been very beneficial and informative to the committee. The committee will consider the next steps after we talk to the other witnesses after the break. I would like to inform Mr. Carney and Mr. Ivers that they are welcome to stay online to view the second session but they will not be able to participate in that...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I extend a warm welcome to the following witnesses: from the rural water unit in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Mr. Douglas Kelly, principal officer, and Mr. Luke Varley, assistant principal officer; from Mayo County Council, Mr. John Condon, director of services, Mr. Michael McDermott, senior executive engineer, and Ms Bernadette Bourke, executive engineer on the...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: For the sake of a few minutes, we will let Mr. Kelly finish his opening statement.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I now invite Mr. Joyce to make his opening statement.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I have just been made aware that Deputy Conway-Walsh needs to be in the Chamber. Does the Senator mind if I let her in before she goes?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I call Senator Craughwell.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I call Deputy Buckley.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: Mr. Carney, we cannot let you into this session. You can view it but you cannot take part in it. Thank you all for coming in and giving your side of what is going on. As was said earlier, to have a community without water in 2024 is not acceptable, as far as I am concerned. Throughout the whole duration of the predicament, what duty of care was shown to the community by the county...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I ask you because the petitioner has shown us a string of emails to which they say they did not get responses from across the three bodies. I am just trying to figure out why the emails would not have got replies.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: Uisce Éireann?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: In its submission, Mayo County Council stated that in July 2018, the application received from Cleragh community water connection was assessed and the scheme was deemed viable. It took until November 2023 for the connection application to be submitted to Irish Water. Why was there a five-year delay? I know we had Brexit, Covid-19 and all of that but there were two and a half or three years...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: Does Uisce Éireann have a policy that gives priority to communities that are in a situation such as this one? I will give credit to Uisce Éireann and Tipperary County Council for resolving an issue quickly once it came before the committee. Does Uisce Éireann have a policy whereby it prioritises communities such as the one we are talking about over individuals?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: As others have said, I thank our guests for coming and for being so honest. We have, however, a community that is stuck without water. I say to the three bodies here that we will be keeping in regular contact with them and with the petitioners. Perhaps in six months, we will see how far this has progressed. I encourage our guests to communicate. It seems to be an awful problem across the...