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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.

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

Martin Browne: All he needs to do is give us a date and we will accommodate him.

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

Martin Browne: I acknowledge that at the end of the letter, the HSE reiterates and admits there is a problem there but as I said, I would prefer that it would come in here before us at a committee so we can question it on what its solutions are. Writing a letter telling us that it does not need to appear in front of an Oireachtas committee is not good enough as far as I am concerned. I imagine that...

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

Martin Browne: I propose we send the invitation back out to the Minister and the HSE that those whom we invited to come today would come again to one of our meetings in the near future. There was a list the petitioners gave us that day of about ten or 12. If we fail to get the Minister and so on the next day, we will get in contact with the petitioners and try to arrange that someone else whom they were...

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

Martin Browne: The next petition is petition No. P00024 /23 on electric scooter safety standards and Requirements in the name of Alexander-Marckus Edwards. This petition relates to the recent press release that states that PPT's, electric scooters, should conform to a weight limit, including battery, and power limit of 500 W and 25 kg, respectively. The petitioner alleges that these limitations will make...

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

Martin Browne: Petition No. P00006/23, cost of generic pain relief medications, in the name of Ms Charline White. The petition relates to a request to cut and cap the price of generic over-the-counter pain relief medications, such as paracetamol, ibuprofen and aspirin. Sufferers of chronic pain rely on these and it is completely unfair to price them as they are. At a local pharmacy in Wexford town, a...

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

Martin Browne: I thank Deputy Buckley. That concludes our consideration of public petitions this afternoon. I invite members of the public to submit petitions via our online portal which is available at petitions.oireachtas.ie. A petition may be addressed to the Houses of the Oireachtas on a matter of general public concern or interest or an issue of public policy. The next item on the agenda is any...

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

Martin Browne: Not yet. We will be getting the Minister in.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on his engagement with the hospitality sector in 2024. [5673/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Export Controls (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how many dual-use licences were issued to exporters to trade in dual-use items with Israel since October 2023; if he has any concern that duel use items being traded with Israel are currently being used against civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Israel-Hamas war; what actions his Department has taken under the Control of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 330. To ask the Minister for Health the number of presentations to Cashel minor injuries unit each month in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the number of direct presentations initiated by the patient and the number of presentations based on referrals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5913/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Authorities (1 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the maintenance of roads on housing estates that have been taken in charge by local authorities are the responsibility of the local authorities under the Local Improvement Scheme; his views on whether it is appropriate for local authorities to advise residents to apply for funding to repair those roads under the Community Involvement...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (1 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgage holders who have switched their mortgage from vulture funds to the mainstream mortgage market since 6 September 2023; and as a consequence, his assessment of the effectiveness of the switching eligibility criteria announced by the banking sector on that date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4610/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (1 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: 128. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is considering measures to support businesses with the increased cost of doing business through the taxation system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4609/24]

Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Martin Browne: The Bill provides for the merger of the existing Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Research Council. The two agencies in their current form have similar roles for different arms of research, with the former providing for research based on STEM subjects and the latter aimed at more humanities-based subjects. I see no problem with this as long as the intentions that are promoted by the...

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Martin Browne: I thank Deputy Gino Kenny for bringing this Bill forward. Progressive Bills enable us to have a debate in which we consider drug use and possession of various kinds in our society are to be welcomed. It is clear that the current response to drug use and drug possession needs reform. How that reform is approached and structured is complex and has a fundamental importance from health,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (31 Jan 2024)

Martin Browne: I thank the Minister of State, but I will return to the fact that Tipperary town needs a guarantee that, in the event that it fails to choose a postmaster or, if down the road it chooses to opt out, An Post would resume responsibility. I am asking for the Minister to examine this and respond to us. The Government speaks about how the town is in need of revitalisation and it has funded a...