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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Expenditure (22 Oct 2015)

Brian Stanley: 64. To ask the Minister for Health the cost per hour of employing home helps directly by the Health Service Executive; and the cost per hour of home helps provided by private companies [35555/15]

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Brian Stanley: There is no choice in the matter.

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Brian Stanley: The Bill, in so far as it goes, provides some relief, and we support it on those grounds, but why is it restricted to equal of one third of the local property tax, LPT, or €300, whichever is the lower figure? It seems limited but, however, it does provide some relief and on those grounds, we will support the Bill. The key issue is the abolition of local property tax, which we...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Brian Stanley: False.

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Brian Stanley: Twelve point five percent.

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Brian Stanley: Take it up with the New Democracy.

Travellers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (3 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: As my time is brief, I will try to focus on the key points I wish to make. The Carrickmines disaster provides an opportunity to face up to this issue once and for all. The sight of ten people, two families, perishing in that fire to be followed by two extended families becoming homeless and not having anywhere to go means we really must look at ourselves as a society and wonder how we got...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Knackery Industry (3 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: 393. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the regulations preventing knackery owners who have a dog food licence from delivering dog food to customers, while at the same time customers may collect the dog food at the knackery. [37244/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (4 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: 246. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a local authority has any flexibility to give oral hearings to third parties to a planning application; and, if not, if he will consider such an approach. [38522/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: 2. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the new wind farm regulations will be put in place; and whether they will include mandatory set-back distances based pro rata on the height of turbines. [37477/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: This question relates to wind farm regulations or guidelines. We do not have either, except for those which are obsolete. The Minister is aware that the development of wind farms continues apace throughout the country. There is considerable concern about the inadequate legislative framework. We have no clear indication of what is happening regarding bringing it forward.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: While I thank the Minister for his reply, unfortunately it does not tell me much. The consultation process was opened two years ago and closed ten months ago, and we still do not have sight of the regulations or guidelines. We would prefer regulations on the development of wind farms. Last year, I introduced a Bill on the development of wind farms setting out minimum setback distances and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: I am hearing procrastination. We are not reaching our goal quickly enough. Planning applications are rolling in and planning permission is being given for wind farm developments. There is concern about the setback distances of these giant turbines. In the midlands and in Laois-Offaly, which I represent, huge turbines are being constructed. Some of the Minister's Labour Party colleagues...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: No, the Minister's Labour Party colleagues are personalising it. It was in the press.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (5 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: 5. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures his Government is putting in place to deal with the problem of escalating rents in the private rental sector. [38589/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (5 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: My question relates to the crisis in the private rental sector of the numbers becoming homeless and the families that are being squeezed out of private rented accommodation because of the lack of action on rent certainty or rent controls. We just discussed housing waiting lists. They are being added to by the day because, unlike other states, we do not have effective rent controls.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (5 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply but he sidestepped my question to some extent in that he blamed the problem of rising rents on supply. There is a plentiful supply of houses in County Laois where I live, given the number of properties lying vacant despite being value for money. The same applies in south County Kildare. I remind the Minister that rents did not collapse during the property...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (5 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: -----for rent allowance as well as the amount of rent supplement. What effective measures will be taken? There are two problems, those being, the threshold for rent supplement, which-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (5 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: -----is too low, and the amount of rent allowance that is made available. What effective measures will be taken to stem the tide?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (5 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: A recent Simon Communities survey found that no house was available for rent in the Portlaoise area within the rent limits set by the Government. Those are the facts. Some 90% of rents are above the limits set across the State and there is no house for rent in the Portlaoise area within those limits. The limit for a family of four is €480, with a portion allocated as rent allowance,...