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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Progress: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)

Brian Stanley: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. It is good to have a broad range of organisations represented, many of whose members we have met in the past. As for the Department, it is clear that not alone is there slippage but we are not even keeping apace. If it were not for the crash of the economy between 2008 and 2013 and 2014, we would be galloping further ahead in terms of missing our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Progress: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)

Brian Stanley: One of the five year objectives of the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, is to deliver 1.4 million m of new hedgerow which have the potential to sequester almost 5,000 tonnes of CO2 each year. I can see how many hedgerows have gone from the fields around my home. It is the same in every part of the country. I asked one person why they were taking it out and they told me they...

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2018)

Brian Stanley: This is a welcome and timely Bill, given how social media and new forms of communication have grown rapidly but the law is yet to catch up. It is an area that will inevitably lead to a body of case law and require greater legislative action. This is not just about updating existing criminal law. The online communications world will need its own regulatory and governance structure. Sinn...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (31 Jan 2018)

Brian Stanley: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to allocate funding to local councils for the completion of unfinished estates in which the developer is no longer in business. [4533/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (31 Jan 2018)

Brian Stanley: 106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes that were completed in County Laois in 2017 by Laois County Council; and the target for same in the coming years for County Laois. [4534/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (31 Jan 2018)

Brian Stanley: 266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is necessary for a motorist to wear a seat belt while driving when that motorist has a letter from their general practitioner stating that they are unable to wear a seat belt due to their medical condition. [4675/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radioactive Waste (1 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 259. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the contact that has been made with the British Government and his views on a recent consultation in Britain with proposals that would see a part of the island of Ireland being used to dispose of nuclear waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5100/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Housing Assistance Payment Administration (1 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 317. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if rent supplement will continue to be paid to those persons whose landlords refuse to enter the housing assistance payment scheme. [5002/18]

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: Thebroadband plan to connect 542,000 homes and businesses with high-speed broadband is in complete disarray. With only one bidder left in the procurement process the Government has lost control. I have warned it of this outcome many times over the last two years. The seeds of the fiasco were sewn in the privatisation of the State telecom company, Telecom Éireann, in 1999, which has...

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: It portrays this State in a dreadful light internationally-----

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: -----that more than 400 schools are still without high-speed connectivity, over 60% are without connections, and 96% of the landmass is in the State black-spot areas. Households and businesses are suffering because of the standstill with the national broadband plan. Those who are lucky to have some broadband also suffer because of the current communication services in Ireland. It ranks low...

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: Some 542,000.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance (6 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 143. To ask the Minister for Finance if he raised with the insurance industry the practice of refusing of insurance cover to drivers of cars over ten years of age even though the vehicle has a valid National Car Test certificate; the reason the insurance industry refuses such vehicles; the legal basis for such refusal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5785/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (6 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in view of the fact that it was reported that 6,111 persons secured full-time employment in the year July 2015 to June 2016 from the JobPath scheme, the length of time the employment lasted for the 6,111 persons, that is, three, six or nine months or one year. [5483/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Loans (6 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if persons that were legally divorced or separated and that have legally discharged their interest in the family home are entitled to apply for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme. [5392/18]

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the fact that Solidarity-People Before Profit has introduced this Bill. We will support its passage to Committee Stage but it will have to contain extremely important provisions without which the entire Bill would be pointless. These are to set in motion the direct replacement to fossil fuels because if we do away with something, we have to replace it. It is completely immoral to...

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: The privatised route for the provision of telecommunications, both with the original sale of Telecom Éireann and the completely privatised route for the national broadband plan, has not worked. There has been a long line of mistakes, false promises and false starts when it comes to broadband rollout. In 2002, Fianna Fáil when in government promised to roll out broadband on a...

National Broadband Plan: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after "the subsequent decision by eir to also withdraw; and" and substitute the following:" - the possibility of now progressing the NBP through State ownership, recognising that the effects of the decision to privatise the State company Telecom Éireann in the past has had a negative impact on citizens and telecommunications services, and that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 34. To ask the Minister for Health if a plan will be put in place for the renovation and extension of Abbeyleix hospital, County Laois to have it included in the capital programme for funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6203/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 36. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that the HSE honours its commitment given to local Teachtaí Dála and the hospital committee to use Abbeyleix hospital, County Laois for a step-up and step-down facility and to cater for respite patients and those in need of transitional beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6204/18]