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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: This scheme is potentially very dangerous because local authorities do not have a large housing stock, numbering only 110,000 units at present, with a further 30,000 social housing units under the control of the approved housing bodies. There is an enormous shortage of local authority housing. My party is not opposed to a tenant purchase scheme but we believe that any such scheme must be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: I am in favour of a good tenant purchase scheme.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: That is not what I argued.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: The Minister of State is deliberately trying to skew what I am saying. Of course we want estates to have 20% social housing and people to be given the option to buy. Only a limited number of people would be able to buy Part V units because most could not afford them. Offering a house for sale to someone who has only occupied it for a year and who has an income of €15,000 will cause...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: We need to hear from the councillors on this.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: I support a tenant purchase scheme, but not this one.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: The scheme will allow people on €15,000 to buy a house.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: I support those exclusions.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (10 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: 23. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the Government will bridge the financial gap caused by the net reduction in global valuation of commercial rates on utility companies. [44053/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (10 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: 27. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to place a moratorium on wind farms until effective regulations are put in place. [44055/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: 42. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will introduce sectorial targets to reduce carbon emissions, given the discussions in Paris in France discussions and the need for this State to meet its international obligations. [44054/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Repossessions (10 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: 201. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to withdraw the new regulations on the repossession of local authority houses that are abandoned, given the difficulties this is causing. [44253/15]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill: First Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 to provide for the establishment of an independent planning regulator, and to provide for matters connected therewith. I welcome the opportunity to introduce this Bill. It provides for the appointment of an independent planning regulator. The importance of having a planning...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill: First Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (15 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: 573. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the level of subvention by the State and local authorities to group water schemes, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44953/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (15 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: 588. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the inquiries into planning matters in Counties Wicklow, Dublin, Cork, Donegal, Galway and Carlow have been completed; and when he will make the results available. [45207/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2015: Motion (15 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: I can see where the Minister of State is coming from with this and the only concern I have, which is probably not for this forum or for the Minister of State, in the sense he is here to speak about a planning matter, is that we need to try to move away from institutionalisation. The Minister of State has spoken about this. It is not good for people, particularly children, or for wider...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. The concern is that this Bill could become the planning and developers (amendment) Bill 2015. Most people would agree that the quality of the units built during the boom was pretty poor. I was in an apartment in my neck of the woods, the main living room of which was shaped like a banana, and when I sat on the couch in that room, the back of...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: Those three amendments were ruled out of order while my other amendment No. 17 was accepted. I am disappointed at the arbitrary way in which those three amendments were ruled out of order. There is a concern is that will be a return to the development of shoe box size apartments. Dublin City Council has set out guidelines-regulations for Dublin city and it uses the democratic power...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: -----but there were many times when he did not and he was wrong not to do so. Storage size and balcony height are important issues, as is ceiling height. There is a reason a ceiling in a standard house is 8 ft. 6 in. It is a fact of life that people are getting taller as well. The generation coming behind us are a good bit taller than we are. Ceiling height has an effect on people's...