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Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: No. P00036/2023, entitled "Failure of the 2005 Disability Act in providing a provision of services to children in need of disability services particularly in Cavan/Monaghan", is from Mr. Ronan Whitmarch. The petition relates to the lack of staffing of the children's disability network team, CDNT, and primary care; the impact on children, parents and families due to long waiting lists; and...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: The assessment of need process, the amount of time it is taking for children to get an assessment and the staffing of the CDNTs are issues that everyone in this House has been contacted about on a regular basis. It is a disgrace that children with needs are being failed. Even if they get an assessment fairly quickly, it is just a box-ticking exercise as far as I am concerned. They are...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: We will ask HSE estates to give us that information.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: I would imagine so. We will write to the HSE and seek that information. Once we get that correspondence from the HSE, we will consider what to do next. The recommendation thus far is that the correspondence from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth be forwarded to the petitioner for comment and that the committee writes to the Ombudsman for Children...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: Next is No. P00008/23 in which the petitioner, Mr. Declan Brosnan, calls for legal netting of an endangered species, namely, Atlantic salmon, in Castlemaine Harbour to be stopped. Castlemaine Harbour is classed as a special area of conservation, SAC, where salmon are an actual quantifying interest. The petitioner maintains that the number of salmon returning is at an all-time low and...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: Next is No. P00022/23, requesting a referral to the Supreme Court of the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022. The petitioner, Mr. Stephen J. Delaney asks that the President of Ireland, Mr. Michael D. Higgins, when asked by the Houses of the Oireachtas to sign into law the aforementioned Bill or any variation of same, would immediately refer it to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: Next is No. P00024/23 from Mr. Alexander-Marckus Edwards which relates to electric scooter safety standards and requirements. The petitioner refers to a recent press release stating that powered personal transportation, PPT, or electric scooters should conform to a weight limit, including battery, of 25 kg and a power limit of 500 W. The petitioner alleges that these limitations will make...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: Petition No. 26 of 2023, submitted by Ms Áine Daly, calls for equal opportunity for HSE counselling positions. The petition relates to the exclusion of National Association for Professional Counselling and Psychotherapy, NAPCP, members from the eligibility criteria for counselling positions within the HSE. The NAPCP is one of several independent regulatory bodies for counselling and...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: No. The recommendation is that the correspondence from the HSE be forwarded to the petitioner for comment within 14 days. Pending the response from the petitioner, further action, if any, will then be decided by the committee.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: Petition No. 27 of 2023, entitled "Who will guard the guards themselves?", is from Ciaran McMahon. The petition relates to the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022 and its potential to quell opposition on topical issues such as climate change, gender and so on. The petitioner suggests that a solution for modern hate could be banning social media...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: Senator Murphy is getting widespread agreement on that. Something needs to happen fast. We are told on a daily basis that we are short of people in professions. This is a situation where things seem to be delayed for no apparent reason.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: The next petition is No. 30 of 2023 for the creation of a walking and cycling greenway on the closed railway from Sligo to Athenry from Mr. Brendan Quinn. I see Mr. Quinn and Mr. John Mulligan, campaigner for the greenway, in the Public Gallery. I welcome them to the proceedings. This petition relates to the closed railway line from Collooney, County Sligo to Athenry, County Galway. The...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: Before we decide, we must hear from Senator Lombard, Deputy Buckley and Deputy Griffin who is online. To be clear, there is a process to go through and when we get to that stage I recommend we send an invitation to the petitioners to put their case to the committee so that we can hear the concerns of the 26,000 signatories. As members will be aware, we would also then invite the Minister to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: Other Members of the Oireachtas have views on it as well. We need to be careful that we give everybody an opportunity to discuss it and that nobody comes out of this meeting more or less saying the committee has come down on one side or the other. This is the first time this petition has come before us. We will try to get it in as quickly as we can so we can get the petitioners back in.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: I was going to bring that up myself. We have seen from the Department's response that there are a few factors here to be dealt with when consideration is being given to the petition and how the reinstatement of rail services fits into the overall strategic rail review and how a greenway could safely function alongside a functioning railway line. Once the petition comes in, I am quite sure...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: As I said, this is the first time this has come before us. We have given an assurance to the petitioners that at a later date we will bring them in and try to get the answers to the questions asked by me and Deputy Griffin. Other people with possibly different views can come before us and give their views.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

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Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

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Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: We still need to get the Department's views.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: I agree with Deputy Griffin. This committee needs to get that information before it starts making decisions. If there is agreement, we will write to the Department to try to get that information and try to fix a date in the near future to invite the petitioners to appear before us and lay out their case. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next petition is P00034/23 to request that the Irish...