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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Digital Safety Commissioner Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: Should it be left to Google to decide what is harmful?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Digital Safety Commissioner Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: What, then, is the answer from Google to my question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Digital Safety Commissioner Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: Is Google happy that the proposed digital safety commissioner would decide what is harmful and what is not and what is acceptable and what is not? Is Google happy to go along with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Digital Safety Commissioner Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: Is Google happy for that decision to be made by the proposed digital safety commissioner?

Apprenticeships: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the motion. Apprenticeships offer great opportunities for young people to develop a long-term career and to earn at a young age. We have great examples from other countries that encourage vocational training and apprenticeships for young people but the sector has been neglected here. We have been limiting young people's opportunities as a result. Apprenticeships should not be...

Apprenticeships: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: Thank you for your indulgence, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (7 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: 130. To ask the Minister for Health if secondary legislation to underpin the access programme for medical cannabis products is being prepared; and if this will be finalised once cannabis based products to be included in the legislation can be sourced. [46038/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (7 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: 131. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding liability implications for consultants in both public and private practice who prescribe medicinal cannabis; and his plans to change same. [46039/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: Under a commitment in the programme for Government regarding the national broadband plan fibre to the home was to be delivered to those within the national broadband plan area by 2020. There are 540,000 households and businesses that still do not have broadband service. Three weeks ago, we had the fiasco of the resignation of the former Minister for Communications, Climate Action and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: Sinn Féin made that proposal seven years ago.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: The Tánaiste should not mislead the Dáil.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services Provision (8 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: 232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has conducted an analysis on improving the train schedule by increasing the number of trains and the possibility of more direct trains from County Laois at train stations in Portlaoise and Ballybrophy in view of the fact that the commuting numbers have increased in recent years with no added services; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: I welcome Mr. Tom Donnellan and the other panel members from Bord na Móna. It is timely that they have come before the Joint Committee on Climate Action. As Vice Chairman of this committee but also as a former employee of Bord na Móna, I have a particular interest in the area. I have been frustrated for a number of years because I felt Bord na Móna would shut up shop. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: I do not expect them to give me answers today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: Could Mr. Donnellan or Mr. Shier come back to me on Mountmellick, Portarlington and Garryhinch?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: What about the overall cost?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: Are there any plans to develop overseas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: I welcome Mr. Foley, Mr. McCormick and Ms Hedin. I have a number of questions on making changes to the grid for the future. We know there is a potential for up to 75% of intermittent power to be integrated on the grid. I understand that we went as high as more than 60% and as low as 4% on a couple of days during the summer. Obviously, we were not using much power on those days. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: Will Mr. McCormick address the matter of dispatchable power?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: I am referring to micro-generation and feeding back onto the grid-----