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Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: I was in before her.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: I should have been in before Deputy Shortall.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: I was.

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: From the inability to find a GP with the capacity to take on new patients, to dental services being unable to provide the most urgent procedures within an acceptable timeframe, to home support hours being inadequate, rural Ireland is being left behind. After being contacted by yet another constituent who is experiencing difficulties in getting orthodontic treatment for their child I was told...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Death Certificates (21 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will engage with the South African Embassy concerning a death certificate application (detail supplied) submitted in 2018. where the applicant has yet to receive the death certificate more than four years afterwards. [8225/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (20 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline in detail the precise statistical data used by her Department when planning for future special class placements; the specific data collection process; the date on which the allocations of special classes will be announced in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7587/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the difficulties being experienced by students (details supplied) in securing school bus services can be addressed. [8031/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provision will be made to assess a family (details supplied) for carers allowance before their twin children return from hospital where their parents have been accompanying them since the birth of their children at great financial cost; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7553/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (20 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 525. To ask the Minister for Health if an estimate has been carried out to determine the cost of reopening the emergency department at Nenagh Hospital; to produce any analysis of such a measure that may have been commissioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7428/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 628. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No.1368 of 7 November 2023, if details can be provided to the precise location of property being considered for purchase (details supplied); if he and the HSE will engage locally on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8044/24]

Commissions of Investigation (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: I thank and commend Deputy Kathleen Funchion for bringing forward this Bill. Like the speakers before me, I hope the Government will support it. The Bill is important because it seeks to ensure that certain members of any future commission of investigation, into whatever issue it is established to explore, cannot simply discharge their duties upon submission of its final report without a...

Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: Communities across the country are seeing the closure of restaurants and other small businesses. In Tipperary town, we recently saw two such restaurants closing down. It is worrying that such a situation has been allowed to arise in a town that has been allocated a task force because of its level of deprivation. We have seen similar closures in Carrick-on-Suir and other towns around the...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: Every community has its own tragic story to tell about road accidents and more sadly, road deaths. No more so than last year which saw a 20% increase in fatalities, and a dreadful 12 months in my county, Tipperary. Yet the Government saw fit to cut the road maintenance and road safety budget by €150 million. Does the Government see this opportunity here today to whitewash that and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (13 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 589. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the need to repurpose the nightingale beds at University Hospital Limerick to provide a more immediate increase in capacity at the hospital, rather than decommissioning them; to outline any engagements he has had on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6455/24]

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: I welcome everyone to our public meeting. We have received apologies from Deputy Emer Higgins. Before we start, I wish to express the condolences of the committee to John Bruton's immediate and extended family. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. The secretariat sent a letter this morning on behalf of the committee to the family. The question is that we approve the minutes of the...

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

Martin Browne: We have six petitions for consideration today. The first is petition No. 00033/21 entitled “Call for a Citizens Assembly on the Irish Justice system; Policing, Crime and Rehabilitation” from Mr. Cormac McKay. This petition relates to the request that the then proposed citizens' assembly on drugs be expanded to encompass the entire justice system, policing, crime and...

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

Martin Browne: Is that agreed? Agreed. The second petition is No. P00035/22 entitled “Amend Child Care Act 1991 to Provide HIQA with the Necessary Powers to Sanction Tusla, Child and Family Agency when it Fails to Meet its Statutory Obligations” from Ms Anna Kavanagh. The Alliance of Birth Mothers Campaigning for Justice, ABC, requested that the committee initiate the necessary steps to...

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

Martin Browne: Before the Deputy continues, the Minister has said he was not available on this date. The invitation is still there.

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

Martin Browne: As I said, the Minister has said he was not able today. The invitation is still there for the Minister to come. We have had the petitioners in here already and we want the Minister and the other people. It is disappointing that the four people who were asked to come in today have not come in. I will read out the letter that they sent in December because that is one the reasons, they say,...

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

Martin Browne: If the Minister gives us a date we will accommodate him instead of giving him dates.