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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: It would be an appalling situation. I have one more brief question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: Mr. Keegan does not know whether it will proceed or not. So much money has been spent and we are now down €96 million without knowing whether the project will proceed. With regard to Covanta, were Mr. Keegan and the officials aware that the company had been fined millions of dollars in the US for breaches of environmental legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: Does that concern Mr. Keegan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: I have no doubt about that, but that has been the problem with the process. The elected members, under the Waste Management Act, were cut out of it in the early 2000s.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (22 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: It was rubber-stamped. Did it have no hand, act or part in making the plans?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (23 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: 151. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Sligo County Council applied for or received any funding under the €600 million scheme formerly available to allow local authorities to pay off loans on land bought for social and affordable housing but which were not proceeded with. [3322/14]

Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management Issues (28 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan, for coming to the House to address this important issue. The fire at the weekend at a waste recycling facility in Ballymount industrial estate in Dublin posed a major risk to people in the locality and across the south of the city. This incident underlines the need for stricter regulation of the waste collection industry and the storage and...

Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management Issues (28 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply. I commend the emergency services on how they dealt with the fire. Such incidents must be prevented. It is not satisfactory that half the city was covered in black smoke. Businesses were forced to close and residents were exposed to toxic fumes. I refer to similar facilities such as Thornton Waste Disposal in Ballyfermot which is situated in a densely...

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (28 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: We are debating a fait accompli and merely ratifying a decision that has already been made for us. It reduces the representation of the Twenty-six Counties from 12 MEPs to 11. I recall a time not too long ago when there were 16 MEPs. For this reason, my party must oppose the Bill. As with much of what emanates from Europe, we are being told what to do, not asked what we want or how it...

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (28 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: I know, but Mr. Pat The Cope Gallagher, MEP, will have a job getting around all of that. It will be difficult. MEPs will be remote. The area is huge. The same applies to the South constituency. At least the previous constituencies of Dublin, East, South and North-West had some kind of geographical coherence. It might be argued that the old provincial regions and Dublin no longer have...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Contracts (28 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: 492. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the awarding of the Birr water scheme contract to a company (details supplied) in view of the fact that the company in question has found it difficult to pay wages on time and owes former employees back money, which it claims it does not have. [3474/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Establishment (28 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: 556. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government where in the Water Services Act it specifies that Irish Water will be retained in public ownership and not privatised. [4153/14]

Freedom of Information Act 1997 (Prescribed Bodies) Regulations 2014: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the fact that Uisce Éireann will be brought under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act and that those provisions will be applied retrospectively from last July. It is a U-turn on the part of the Minister and Fianna Fáil, if I correctly heard the latter welcoming this. Fianna Fáil had intended to restrict the legislation further. When I submitted a...

Freedom of Information Act 1997 (Prescribed Bodies) Regulations 2014: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: I have a quick question on the Comptroller and Auditor General's role as regards Uisce Éireann. We all want there to be openness and transparency. As the Minister knows, we disagree with setting up a new superstructure over county councils and turning them into subcontractors, but it has been done. The Government had the majority to ensure that. Why can the Comptroller and Auditor...

Freedom of Information Act 1997 (Prescribed Bodies) Regulations 2014: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: I was talking about monopolies.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Issues (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: 120. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the person that commissioned the reports by a company (details supplied) on local waste management plans; and the amount they were paid. [4381/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Appointments (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: 124. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the methods that were used to select and appoint members of the board of Irish Water; and the number of persons that applied for the position. [4386/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Appointments (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: 125. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current corporate relationship between Irish Water and Bord Gáis. [4387/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Yield (29 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: 134. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of local property tax that has been collected in each local authority area; and the amount each will receive in 2014 from the Local Government Fund. [4515/14]

European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: I will pick up where I left off on Tuesday. We are being presented with a fait accompli. As with much debate in the House, the train has left the station but we are only now being asked to discuss the fate of its passengers and its direction. The reduction in the number of MEPs from 12 to 11 is regrettable and damages democracy. Across the political spectrum, we often hear that Europe is...