Results 12,621-12,640 of 20,156 for speaker:Brian Stanley

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: I thank Deputy Murphy. Deputy Carroll MacNeill is not in attendance as far as I can see from the screen. As referred to by Deputy Murphy, the project is expected to achieve a starting cost rental of €1,200 per month, which is a significant discount on rents of circa €2,000 per month for a comparable two-bedroom home in the same area, but it is still coming in fairly high....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: My concern is we are facing a pensions time bomb, and with the housing situation we are facing a pensioner-renter time bomb. Pensioners are not going to be able to afford the rents that are demanded in the private sector. The rents for these cost rental schemes would be too high even for a couple where there are two pensions. Where one pensioner might end up living alone, it would be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for that information. He might clarify something. Did I hear him correctly when he said that when people reach pension age, they can rent at a lower level or receive a subsidy?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for that clarification. I believe we are all agreed that moving into the cost rental model is a very important venture. Many of us have advocated for this for years. While this is a pilot project, I hope to see it rolled out in every county in the country. I represent Laois-Offaly, and while it is rural, it has large towns. There is a significant affordability issue in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: The next item of correspondence is No. 685B, from Mr. John Dollard, Chief Superintendent, An Garda Síochána, dated 23 June 2021, which we have addressed. Is it agreed to note and publish this item? Agreed. The next item is No. 689B, from Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General at the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications, dated 24 June 2021, providing information...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: I will raise a couple of points around No. 689B. I was surprised to learn recently, when I raised this matter with the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Ossian Smyth, that only 4,000 connections have been done so far this year. That would show we are barely chipping away at it and taking a small chip out of what needs to be done. We...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: I know from the period that I was involved in this brief that it works out at €20 per pole per annum to rent poles from a private company that was a publicly owned company up to 1999 before it was privatised and is now owned by a French consortium. We can seek that information. Given that €2.7 billion or €2.8 billion of taxpayers' money is being dished out, I hope that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: That information is not readily available, but we will try to get it for the Deputy.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: We can decide how to go from there. The Deputy is also asking about when Screen Ireland was last before the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: Does the Deputy believe it was before the committee previously?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: We will get that information for the Deputy and discuss it in the context of the work plan.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: Is Deputy Munster suggesting that we consider adding it to the work programme?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: We can consider that, with the agreement of the committee. The next correspondence is No. 691B from Mr. Ken Spratt, Secretary General of the Department of Transport, dated 25 June, providing detailed information requested by the committee at our meeting with the Department on 27 May. It includes information on a range of issues, including driver theory tests, the DART interconnector...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy had two questions. We will look for information from the Department regarding how much was put forward and spent on helicopters, as well as the spend thus far on the DART interconnector. The next item under category B is No. R0698, correspondence dated 25 June 2021 from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Health, providing information requested by the committee...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: That is correct.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: Will the Deputy repeat her question?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: We can do that. We will notify the correspondent that Tusla representatives will be appearing before the committee. The only other item of correspondence for discussion is-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: Go ahead, Deputy.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy. We will follow through on that. The final item of correspondence for discussion, No. R0688, is from an individual who proposes that the committee needs to revisit governance issues at the Rehab Group. There is not much information in the letter. I suggest that we write to the organisation and ask it for its internal governance policy and any information relevant to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (6 Jul 2021)

Brian Stanley: 408. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to implement a system to record the number of deaths in all direct provision centres in keeping with the request by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. [36557/21]