Results 3,081-3,100 of 20,057 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: Those in government should we ashamed of themselves-----
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: -----for the way they have done this.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: A dog breeding Bill should be a dog breeding Bill.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: Pseudo. It is on paper what the Government has done.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: We are all aware of the controversy that arose last year in relation to the Garth Brooks concert which ran into difficulties with local residents in Croke Park. That led to Dublin City Council imposing conditions limiting the number of concerts, among other things, with which the promoters of the event were dissatisfied, and it was cancelled. While I am not dismissing the concerns of the...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: We will be taking them down that route next week.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: The Minister has used his powers to override the wishes of the democratically elected councils-----
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: I will speak through the Chair. I refer to a recent example which impacted on my own county when a vote by Westmeath County Council regarding the conditions for the building of a massive wind farm was over-ruled by the then Minister of State, Deputy Jan O’Sullivan. She was able to do so under the critical infrastructure legislation which allows An Bord Pleanála and the Minister...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: However, there is an opportunity to give back some power to councillors as this was provided for in the Act passed last year. I would welcome a debate on it issue to see how this can be achieved. In general, Sinn Féin supports it. I am also interested to know what might give grounds for the need for the Minister to intervene in the case of proposed events. I presume that the proposer...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: -----to address a number of issues in the planning area. We have concerns about giving such powers to Ministers because we have seen the way they can abuse them. In general we recognise the need to update the legislation which we hope will move to Committee Stage.
- One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion, which I hope will get the support of Members, particularly of Labour Party and Fine Gael Deputies. The Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection stated that she would not proceed with any reduction in lone parent's allowance or would not alter the payments unless, as she stated, "I get a credible and bankable commitment on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: 457. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly will be provided with home help. [26222/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Natural Heritage Areas Designation (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: 708. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason for the delay in delisting bogs that were designated national heritage areas (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26169/15]
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: The amendment is nonsensical. The myth is that local authorities are sitting on huge tracts of land they do not want to develop, as opposed to not having the means to develop. The unused sites I have come across are not owned by local authorities or by housing associations. I can think of one housing association that has a site that is unused and there are still cattle grazing on it. It...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: It is nonsensical to expect the local authority to levy itself. Let us be clear: where a housing authority has land, it will want to use it. There is all this palaver about devolving powers to local authorities, but in this Bill we are cutting a stick and handing it to them to beat themselves with it. The money to pay the levy will not drop out of the sky; it will come from rates in the...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: I do not want to hold up the show but I indicated that I wished to speak on the last amendment. It should not depend on whether there is a housing need in the area as there may be other needs in a location. The Government amendment is good, as there are many small sites that are unused and which cause problems. I agree with the Minister in that we must differentiate between derelict and...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: The question is about where there is a need for a public body to provide a local primary care centre, for example. The point was well made by Deputy Mulherin that many facilities and housing were pushed out to the edge of towns and we need to get them back in. We agree fully with the Government on this. The Minister of State referred to sweating these important sites. It might not be the...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: It is the tea party and Reganomics.
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: These amendments are good. One of the major weaknesses in the Derelict Sites Act 1990 is the amount of time it takes for its provisions to kick in. Deputy Michelle Mulherin made a good point earlier about a pensioner who owns a derelict site and does not have the means to develop it. There is a clause to cater for that. However, some owners with the means can drag it out, leading the...
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: The question is when the different measures will kick in. This has the potential to pull it out like an accordion; it will prolong the process and make the legislation difficult to implement. The amendments that have been made are worthy of inclusion. There is a weakness in section 9 of the legislation as it stands and it needs to be amended.