Results 1-20 of 218 for going forward speaker:David Stanton

Report of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (2 May 2024)

David Stanton: ...coasts. Next month it will be 20 years since our only offshore wind farm was commissioned. It is off the Arklow Bank. We have had no offshore farms since. We have had plenty onshore and that is good, but from listening to people today, a huge amount of work has been done by government in the recent past, especially this Government and the previous one. There has been a huge amount of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (2 May 2024)

David Stanton: ...completed? Unfortunately, the tide and sea and flooding do not wait for studies to be completed. The erosion and risk of flooding to the houses there has increased recently. We have the study to go forward. What happens next? Do we need planning of some sort to do works? I am very concerned about this particular area and the houses that are at risk from flooding in that spot. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: ...time. It could be another two years, maybe longer, before we see this in place. I asked the Minister if he would establish an interim board in order that it would be up and running and ready to go, rather than establishing a board which would then have to spend more time getting to know the brief. Is there any way of advancing it or bringing it forward? Why does it take so long to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response and congratulate him on the work that is going on there. If I am correct, the current schemes only support expansions, not startups. If somebody wants to start from scratch and build a childcare facility, is there any support for that? Has the Minister asked the local childcare committees to conduct an assessment of local need? If not, will he do so...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: ...serve to delay things further? Will the Minister of State meet, as a matter of urgency, senior officials in Cork County Council, along with his officials in the OPW, to scope this out and drive it forward? There is a sense of a lack of urgency about this matter now. I have raised it almost every week since the floods following Storm Babet almost six months ago. The people involved...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Wind Energy Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (17 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: ...slowness, I have been speaking with some industry people who are interested in investing in Ireland, particularly in floating offshore facilities. They are concerned that the investment will go elsewhere, as Mr. Tobin has said. Anything we can do to push things forward and make them more attractive is important. The Celtic interconnector is being constructed in my part of the country...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: An Dara Céim - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: I congratulate the Minister and his officials on bringing forward this important legislation. I was seized by the importance of this legislation on 13 July 2022 when representatives from IBEC appeared before the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment. The Chairman, Deputy O'Reilly, I and others were taken by the importance of the UPC Act and Ireland becoming part of the court....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (30 Jan 2024)

David Stanton: I want to ask about the many new developments being built around the country. There are a lot of houses going up but there is very little forward planning with regard to resources such as community facilities and playing fields. It is very expensive for clubs to purchase land. Perhaps it is something the Minister of State would have a look at and consider with his Government colleagues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

David Stanton: I am sure there will be tonnes of consultation on this as we go forward-----

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: ...to be set up by primary legislation for it to have teeth. If we just set up a talking shop, it will not have any teeth. Perhaps one way to do that would be to suggest an amendment to the Bill that is going through at the moment. It could be a short amendment. It might be possible for the clerk to the committee to get advice from the legal services in the Houses to draft a short...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

David Stanton: There is an opportunity to do it now. It will need primary legislation anyway and we have a vehicle that we could use that is going through right now. There may be other barriers and reasons it cannot and should not happen that I do not know about at this stage but there is an opportunity to bring it into the conversation and to bring it into the legislation, which is at a pretty early...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland-Canada Trade Relations: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

David Stanton: ...to the Attorney General to, as I understand it, make changes to the legislation, namely,the arbitration Acts and so on. Has the Minister of State any sense as to what is happening there? Are we going to see this coming forward? It is a matter of concern and interest that even though the trade issue is growing and all the other relationships are very strong, this still remains on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with Chairperson of the Health and Safety Authority (25 Oct 2023)

David Stanton: ...congratulate her on her appointment. I wish her the best with it. The HSA has a massive remit and it is very complex, technical and detailed. I went through its website and it is actually quite good. My colleague has quite rightly been pointing out the issues with respect to sensitive data; I noticed on 13 September last that a press release was issued pertaining to that particular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implementation of the Recommendations of the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

David Stanton: ...framework. One thing that jumped out at me was that the detailed implementation plan from the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces will be published next month, in October 2023. We look forward to that as it will detail what we need to do. It is fine having high-level aspirations but I am interested in drilling down into the detail of exactly what will happen on the ground. ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (12 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: ...where the principal earner is over the limit and cannot get a mortgage because of age, and where the income in the household is above €53,000. I welcome the tenant in situscheme. It is a very good scheme and I have directed quite a number of constituents towards it and it seems to be working quite well. In this case, however, the family cannot get a mortgage, their income is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Statement of Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (12 Jul 2023)

David Stanton: ...and casual trading. There are a few anomalies in the current system. A review at the time proposed that the Department update the relevant Acts. Are there any plans to move that legislation forward or has it been scrapped? This issue impacts on single traders, farmers markets and a small businesses that sometimes struggle to make ends meet. The witnesses referred to the statement...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (15 Jun 2023)

David Stanton: ...to the Minister of State’s response, but I do not think any consultants have been appointed in that time. This is hugely important. Quite a number of people are referred to in the response I got from the HSE: operational leads; project officers; administrative officers; clinical nurse specialists – there are four of those; staff nurses; rehab co-ordinator; senior...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (15 Jun 2023)

David Stanton: ..., hub is probably one of the most exciting and positive developments I have seen in health in quite a while. It looks after people with chronic diseases through an ambulance centre. People can go there, be looked after, travel and so on. On 10 February 2022, which is more than a year ago, we had a presentation from HSE south on this very exciting and positive development. The HSE...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

David Stanton: ...Ireland. There is no doubt about that. In our villages, towns and cities, people often come together voluntarily to undertake a project for which they must raise funds. It is fantastic when the Government can provide much of the funding. It might not be able to give all the money but it can provide a large part of what is needed to make these projects happen. That makes a massive...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Climate Change Policy (14 Jun 2023)

David Stanton: ...states, like the Marshall Islands and elsewhere, from the rise in sea levels. Those states are very concerned that they may be completely wiped out because of rising sea levels. Does the Government accept that sea levels are rising? Has the Government got any projections as to how much they will rise? I have been reading some material on this issue recently and one report indicates that...