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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the status of treatment for a person (details supplied). [6540/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments Data (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the names and locations of the 22 unfinished estates in County Laois which appear on his Department's 2016 UFD survey; and the number of units in each estate that are complete and vacant and near complete, respectively (details supplied). [6513/18]

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol: Motion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for that information. This motion was passed by the Dáil on 30 January and the process is that it was to come to us. As a committee, do we have to endorse it?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol: Motion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: Is it a requirement that this happens-----

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol: Motion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: -----or is it just a courtesy that the committee-----

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol: Motion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: For us lay people, could one of the officials say where hydrofluorocarbon gases, HFCs, are typically used?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol: Motion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: Have we found a way of recycling them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: I have been patiently waiting to contribute since 1.50 p.m. and I have a good number of questions. If the Chairman bears with me, I will go through them quickly. Deputy Lowry stated he did not wish to put a roadblock in the way of the process at this point. While I agree with him to some extent, sometimes when one is on a journey, it does no harm to check the map to ensure one does not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: Let us say, for example, that I have a broadband service. The download and upload speeds vary in terms of gigabits and megabits. Can the State impose a legal obligation on all the providers to maintain these speeds? Some people have a very poor service. The Minister indicated he had to allow Eir to cherry-pick. I raised that issue at the first press conference and the Minister and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: There will be rich pickings in any scheme. If one is picking fruit in a field, some fruit will be ripe and some will be unripe. Companies will naturally pick out the best parts of any scheme. As the Minister will be aware from what has happened in his home country, the companies have picked the easy to reach areas. This impairs the rest of the process and I contend that it was not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: It will be 70% at best.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: The figure is 540,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: I understand that of course it cannot be an auction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: The price is agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: What about the companies and the services that are already there?

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: A basic for rural Ireland should be a proper transport infrastructure but instead people travel daily on substandard and often dangerous roads. We need an effective public transport network. Without public transport, people must travel on roads that, owing, in part, to the collapse in the economy but also years of cutbacks to grant payments, have not been maintained in a proper state of...

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: The Government needs to start taking the needs of rural Ireland seriously.

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: Given the bad state of the roads in County Laois following the recent bad weather, I ask that the Minister consider a further allocation for the county.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Action Programme Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 43. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding Ireland obtaining an extension to the derogation on the spreading of pig slurry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7017/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alternative Energy Projects (13 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 90. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to create a viable biogas industry here that would utilise farm and animal waste as the main source of raw material for its production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7018/18]