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Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: Where is the Tánaiste? Government figures should come here and speak to us as Opposition spokespersons. As a rural TD, I want those 540,000 households connected. People in Laois-Offaly contact me every day looking for broadband to be rolled out to their houses, and I am sure other Members' constituents contact them. People are travelling to Dublin every day who do not need to. They...

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: Absolutely.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Infrastructure (16 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: 536. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the transatlantic subsea fibre optic cable extending from the United States of America to Killala, County Mayo; the persons and bodies that have benefited from the cable; if a study has been carried out on the cost associated with alternative landfall routes; and his plans to use this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (18 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the importance of home school liaison officers in schools when children have special needs; and his plans for same. [41922/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home School Community Liaison Scheme (18 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reintroduce home school liaison officers in schools in urban and rural areas. [41921/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: My question is around work with the development agencies. What work is happening in terms of developing the circular economy, particularly in respect of the reuse of waste and putting it to some kind of productive use? Can the Secretary General or other members of the panel cite some examples of initiatives like that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: Could I ask the name of the company that is going to do this in Lisheen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: That is just on the edge of my constituency so I am familiar with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: I am grateful for the invite. It is the first one I have received. Bord na Móna is an industry that is in radical transition and is moving away from peat and carbon. Things are going to be stepped up a gear very quickly on that. One of the big issues we are facing is the availability of biomass. This issue crosses over with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: If I may raise a point, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland paper in 2016 said there was potential for 3,000 jobs. Even assuming that figure is only 2,000, I do not see any initiatives happening in the two or three years since then to try to kick-start this industry. I do not see it happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: On retrofitting and energy conservation, there is a huge amount of work to be done in training and re-skilling workers. People who will be moving out of the types of industry they are in now will need to adapt very quickly. Have the Department and other relevant sectors taken on board the need to accelerate this?

Prevention of Single-Use Plastic Waste: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: I welcome this opportunity to address this motion. I congratulate the Minister on his new appointment. I look forward to working with him and challenging him on issues such as this. He is the fourth Minister with whom I have dealt on this issue in the last eight years-----

Prevention of Single-Use Plastic Waste: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: -----because in the last Dáil I had the brief of local government and environment. We had Phil Hogan, Deputy Alan Kelly and Deputy Denis Naughten. If the Minister does anything, he needs to make a start with this. The game is up in terms of plastic. I congratulate the Green Party for bringing this issue forward again. The consequences are absolutely horrific. It is constant and it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Policy (23 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: 138. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the consultation on Portlaoise Hospital; the persons or bodies that will be engaged with in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43503/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: 144. To ask the Minister for Health if an external facilitator has been appointed for the consultation on the future of Portlaoise hospital. [43502/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: 67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital funding being provided for works in Mountmellick on flood relief. [43885/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (24 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: 77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding is available for immediate short-term works for river channel clearing in Mountmellick, County Laois. [43884/18]

Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the fact that the Bill has come before the Dáil today. We support the principle of it. As Sinn Féin has made clear many times, we support the full abolition of the mandatory retirement age as we believe that the manner and duration of a person's labour should be decided by that person and that person alone, and not be based upon a decision of an employer. If a worker...

Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: I propose the adjournment.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (25 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to address the Minister on this matter as it is a very important issue in Laois and Offaly. As a former employee of Bord na Móna, as were most of my family, I am very concerned about it. The effects of job losses and the closing of the bogs in the midlands is going to be devastating. I was in Edenderry last night, and people there are very concerned. People...