Results 21-40 of 226 for going forward speaker:Brian Stanley

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: ..., Portlaoise, County Laois. It is proposed to request information from the Department of Education on the matters raised regarding public expenditure and request the correspondent's consent to forward the correspondence to the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science also for policy considerations. Is that agreed? Agreed. This is an...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I will move to emergency generation in a minute. The Government must take greater measures to control and manage our energy needs. Households continue to receive sky-high energy bills, with electricity and gas bills more than double what they were just two years ago. One pensioner in my constituency, who lives alone, received a bill of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency: Discussion
Chapter 20: Management of the Clinical Indemnity Scheme of the Report on the Accounts of Public Services 2021 (2 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: There would be a fear in people dealing with the legal profession. There is the old saying about creating a big file. It does not matter how many letters go back and forward - it might only be one sentence - but the wording is in the letter and there is a charge for each one. Obviously, that increases when it moves up. Mr. Breen is dealing with substantial claims, but the length of time...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Brian Stanley: We are telling the public that there is more money going in, and we are going to and fro and back and forward. They are saying that is all fine but they still cannot get the service. Those are the four questions. Will Mr. Watt come back to me on those?

Toll Charge Increases: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the news that the toll increase across the PPP roads and the M50 will be deferred until July 2023. However, this does not go far enough. Workers and families across the State are in a cost-of-living crisis and the Government's only solution is to kick the can down the road until July. The Minister for Transport was notified in early September, prior to the budget, of these price...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: Can I just say this to the regulator because it has come up on a number of occasions here this morning, where I have heard this discussion going backwards and forwards. I understand that the role of the regulator is to ensure that the lottery operates as per the terms of the licence and within the law. I understand and get that. A regulator cannot be a bystander when major issues are...

Public Accounts Committee: Greyhound Racing Ireland: Financial Statements 2021 (10 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...to the attendance and the credibility of the sector. We want to see improvements. I am sure the Department officials do as well. It is really important that that happens. That is the message going from here this morning that there have been improvements made and we want to see significant improvements. I look forward to the strategic plan, hopefully, that can point the way forward for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence (26 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: .... It is really important that money does not become the barrier to getting a refuge in place. People are at their most vulnerable when they are escaping domestic violence. Often women and children go back into abusive situations because they have no other option. They need a refuge space to feel safe, get their head together, access support services and to plan a way forward. That may...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...engage with the council. This is fundamental infrastructure. Local authorities do not have the authority to procure and install it. I want the Minister of State to take this back. Under the local government legislation that was brought forward by the Minister at the time, Mr. Phil Hogan, that power was to be devolved down, not just to designate bus stops but actually to put bus...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding (20 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Colm Burke mentioned capital projects. This is an issue I have raised with Graham Doyle, the Secretary General of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. At the moment, we are in a housing crisis. I am approaching this in a constructive way. I am not making a criticism but it is one of the issues that I fail to understand. We have to mass-produce houses,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...the minute of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, which responded to the recommendations in the committee's report on its examination of the appropriation accounts for Vote 34, housing, planning and local government. It is proposed to note and publish that correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 4 is the work programme. At last week's meeting, we agreed to proceed...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Apologies, I was going back and forward through notes because there was a slight change made to bring forward the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. That is what threw me. We have to move into private session to deal with some of this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...directly to be included in the review. RTÉ has been informed that any individual has the right to seek an insurability decision from the Department of Social Protection." In fairness, the Department seems to be going back through it. According to the Department, "Where an individual is determined to be, or have been, in a position of insurable employment, PRSI arrears will be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: That could be useful. I look forward to it happening. It is overdue. We will note and publish this item of correspondence. It is 11.05 a.m. I propose we resume at 11.15 a.m. We will go through a pretty substantial number of items then.

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: The windfall tax we are proposing would be an anti-inflation measure. Sinn Féin is putting forward a proposal to protect households from any further price gouging by big electricity suppliers. We are calling for electricity prices to be reduced and capped at 2021 levels throughout the winter period, until at least February 2023. Irish households have experienced soaring price hikes...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Jul 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...is also suitability of locations. Obviously, if these facilities are put on the side of a busy road where there are no shops, it is an issue, because people who are somehow independent and will go to a local shop if it is close by may be stuck out in the suburbs somewhere, so there is all of that to consider. I suggest from this discussion, if it is agreed, that we hold a meeting on HSE...

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts: Motion (30 Jun 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...it received from the Department of Health. Total accumulated costs for the project at the end of 2019 amounted to €459 million, which excludes €35.5 million of capital expenditure that was written off in 2013 following the Government’s decision to relocate the site from the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. There are lessons to be learned from that, apart from...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...local authority builds? Does he have some idea now that we are six months into the year, how many builds will have been completed by local authorities? The local authorities send plans back and forward to the Department to get approval and go through the Part 8 process locally.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...Accounts wants to see what returns we are getting. I am not clear and would like to have a clearer picture of it. I have complained to Ministers about the all the different stages that must be gone through and all the rigmarole that local authorities have to go through to get approval and all the delays. In the popular mind, and sometimes in the media, it is put forward as being...