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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: If a person is in the database then he or she must have a licence. It is easy then to leave the collection with An Post.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: This needs to be cracked because that €40 million in uncollected licence fees needs to be gathered up.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: The situation here is blurring the lines. If a person buys a TV set, he or she must purchase it. There will always be exceptions such as those who go outside the State to purchase a TV set, but people must also connect to a service. There is a delay in taking action on this matter. There is no doubt that the funding is needed. I also wish to discuss the pay structure in RTÉ. I...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: There is a database for the local property tax and a database for dog licenses and so on. We should also be able to do it for TV licences. We should be able to keep the TV licence fee low to spread the cost and not incur extra cost onto low and middle income households.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: On a point of order, we are on Parliamentary Question No. 10 in the name of Deputy Brian Stanley. I have no problem with Deputies Eamon Ryan or Dooley-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: -----or anybody else asking questions, but the system is that one submits the questions so many days in advance and they are drawn out in a lottery in the order in which they came in, and if one wants to ask the questions they must be tabled as written questions. On a point of order I have never seen this happening before.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: But this has not happened before-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee Collection (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: When a person buys a car, for example, they will have to register-----
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: 26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to the announced closure of 159 post offices and the ongoing review process for these post offices, the policy he has developed in terms of making progress towards changes in services available through the post office network or broadening services to maintain a viable network of post offices and maintain an...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Alternative Energy Projects (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: 29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his policy for the development of alternative energy sources to fossil fuels in respect of the decarbonisation of the environment and reaching emission reduction targets. [41193/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: 40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to establish a different model of collection for household waste in view of the report from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, on the household waste collection market. [41191/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: 44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to use his powers under the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 to issue a policy direction to the Commission for Regulation of Utilities regarding energy supply markets and its resultant effect on prices for householders. [41192/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: I welcome the delegates from the Department. This is an important opportunity for the committee to try to deal with some of these issues. On electric vehicles, did Mr. McCarthy state that from 2020 all new developments containing more than ten dwellings must have charging points in place? Will that come into force on 1 January 2020 or 31 December 2020? On a related matter, are there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: The energy aspect is causing the problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: How long will that last?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: Ms Neary referred to internal design and uniform specifications. Why can we not just have four or five types of external design?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: I am not talking about material, I am referring to the design of the houses. One would have, say, four designs for a three-bedroom house and we could let the local authorities build them? Why can we not have a uniform design? In the past, the Land Commission had three types of houses and one can still see them in every county in the State. The county councils used uniform designs. That...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: Is there a plan for electrical vehicle charging points at Government-owned and departmental buildings?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: A Minister should not do so during a tender process.
- Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)
Brian Stanley: What has happened here today is bizarre. The Minister became a prisoner of this process. I spoke to him many times, inside and outside the House and in committee, about the dangers of the process he was getting into. We entered into a tendering process, supported by Fianna Fáil at the start, that went down a completely privatised route. The successful bidder would own the...