Results 261-280 of 20,334 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Written Answers — Homeless Persons: Homeless Persons (20 Sep 2011)
Brian Stanley: Question 450: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for the development of a youth homelessness strategy as part of the overall strategy for ending homelessness here. [24108/11]
- Written Answers — Water Fluoridation: Water Fluoridation (20 Sep 2011)
Brian Stanley: Question 506: To ask the Minister for Health if he has read the recent report by the EU Committee on Environmental and Health Risks into the scientific evidence around water fluoridation; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this report has stated that water fluoridation poses some health risks for children; and his plans to end this practice. [24105/11]
- Written Answers — Drugs Task Forces: Drugs Task Forces (20 Sep 2011)
Brian Stanley: Question 507: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that cuts to regional and local drugs task forces were over and above those to his Department; and if he will guarantee their current levels of funding in future in order that they may continue their valuable work in communities. [24101/11]
- Written Answers — Drugs Task Forces: Drugs Task Forces (20 Sep 2011)
Brian Stanley: Question 508: To ask the Minister for Health if he will protect funding for Ballymun Drugs Task Force, Dublin; if he will protect funding for Finglas Drugs Task Force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24100/11]
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. I am amazed at the reaction in the Chamber. It is as if Sinn Féin cannot put forward any proposal or suggestion. I am particularly amazed at the reaction on the Labour benches. The Fine Gael Deputies, by and large, put their arguments forward and responded to Sinn Féin arguments. Unfortunately, Deputies Keaveney and McCarthy ran...
- Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (21 Sep 2011)
Brian Stanley: Question 93: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria that must be satisfied for an organisation to receive an exemption of paying the landfill levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25165/11]
- Written Answers — Third-level Sector Staff: Third-level Sector Staff (22 Sep 2011)
Brian Stanley: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse the controls imposed on universities and third-level colleges under the revised employment control framework that applies absolute limits to the numbers and grades of staff in teaching, research and administration that is impeding the development and search for knowledge in a modern and diverse society. [25113/11]
- Written Answers — Adult Education: Adult Education (22 Sep 2011)
Brian Stanley: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention will be drawn to the problems being experienced by persons participating in the apprentice finishing scheme and who are being prevented from finishing their training in a trade. [25114/11]
- General Medical Services Contracts (28 Sep 2011)
Brian Stanley: Question 6: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reform the consultants' contract and the general practitioner contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26389/11]
- Portlaoise Hospital (29 Sep 2011)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for taking the issue. I wish to raise the plans for the future of Portlaoise hospital, particularly with regard to the intensive care unit and the accident and emergency unit, the plans to proceed with the model 2 proposal, if any, and the implications for the maternity unit at the hospital. I am glad the Minister for Health is here and is taking time to...
- Portlaoise Hospital (29 Sep 2011)
Brian Stanley: The Minister can understand where the confusion is coming from but I welcome the reply. In his statement he went into some detail. Can the Minister confirm there will be a new maternity unit in the hospital? What is the position with capital funding? I have tried to track the â¬8 million for the last three years, all the way from the council chamber in Portlaoise to the floor of this...
- Portlaoise Hospital (29 Sep 2011)
Brian Stanley: It has 400 staff.
- Public Transport (29 Sep 2011)
Brian Stanley: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport his views on public transport and the State role in its provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26573/11]
- Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (29 Sep 2011)
Brian Stanley: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to secure adequate levels of funding for sport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26504/11]
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (4 Oct 2011)
Brian Stanley: Question 605: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to retain the current level of services at Portlaoise Regional Hospital; and his plans regarding whether the hospital will be a model 2 or a model 3 hospital. [27181/11]
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (4 Oct 2011)
Brian Stanley: Question 606: To ask the Minister for Health the stage of development of his plans for a new maternity unit at Portlaoise Regional Hospital; if the funding is still in place for this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27182/11]
- Fiscal Policy (5 Oct 2011)
Brian Stanley: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Finance if any staff from his Department or within the National Treasury Management Agency, Central Bank of Ireland or other agencies have assessed or are currently assessing the impact of a collapse of the euro on the Irish economy. [27671/11]
- Written Answers — Licensed Moneylenders: Licensed Moneylenders (5 Oct 2011)
Brian Stanley: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned with the reports that legal moneylenders are now going door to door seeking custom; and his plans to regulate this behaviour and to further reduce the interest rates that these legal moneylenders can apply to their customers. [27672/11]
- Social and Affordable Housing (6 Oct 2011)
Brian Stanley: I am grateful to the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to raise the matter of home loans acquired through local authorities to buy a house under the shared ownership scheme, the annuity scheme and the affordable housing scheme. Typically, these were, to use the awful term from America, sub-prime borrowers. They were people who could not get loans from building societies, banks...
- Social and Affordable Housing (6 Oct 2011)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. There is a problem with contacting the finance section of the local authorities. We can talk to them until the cows come home, but if someone should be paying â¬150 per week in mortgage repayments yet is only earning â¬230 per week, then that person can only pay â¬40 or â¬50. That differential of â¬100 is mounting up in the local authority...