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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: The process is subject to certain ground rules that were not met in this case. The Minister made a statement in the Dáil this week that his only motivation was to keep the remaining bidder and I can understand that situation. I am on the record of the Dáil as saying to him that he became a prisoner of the process. Yet we have three meetings and telephone calls where there were...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: Would Mr. Smyth agree that could be left open to a legal challenge?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: With due respect to Mr. Smyth, the problem is whether anything was discussed. He has said that the NBP was not discussed during those three conversations. If these facts were presented to anyone on the street they would not say that the NBP had not been discussed. Why would it not have been discussed? One of the days this happened was the day that Eir pulled out. There were no officials...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: Yes but surely the bidder was the one person remaining in the process who could pull the rug from under the Government and the State on this at that time. The bidder would have realised at that stage that it had all the clout. Mr. Smyth knows how a negotiation with tenderers or any kind of negotiation works. There is always a power play and at that point the remaining bidder holds the full...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: So is the bidder.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Review of Procurement Process for National Broadband Plan: Discussion (6 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: The Minister is the person signing off and he said that his only motivation was to keep the bidder in the process.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (11 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to address this issue. I am disappointed the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, is not in the Chamber to take the Topical Issue matter. Perhaps there is a reason for that. I will address it with the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, who is designated in the Minister's place. There is a very frustrating situation currently where community...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (11 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State. His reply brings further clarity to the situation. In respect of section 38(3)(c) of the Garda Síochána Act 2005, the Minister of State restated that the local authority must act as the data controller. That is clear and has been established. He also said that he has received feedback from the Data Protection Commissioner, who confirmed that there...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (12 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider the policy of fully devolving to local authorities the role of providing bus shelters as provided in local government legislation. [51956/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (12 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: 51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allocate funding directly to local authorities to provide bus shelters in their functional areas in which they are deemed appropriate. [51957/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: My first question picks up on wind and wave energy generation. We started hearing about this 20 years ago. I heard the reply to Deputy Bríd Smith but are there examples from around the world where wind and wave have been utilised effectively? Is the issue in Ireland due to lack of investment in research and development or is it because those technologies do not seem to be a viable...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: On biomass and the supply chain, Mr. Donnellan is aware that the three peat-fired power generation stations must switch to using biomass. The station in Edenderry is currently co-fired. What is the potential for Irish producers to supply that biomass? What would be involved in developing a supply chain in the midlands, namely, counties such as Longford, Laois, Offaly and Westmeath? I ask...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: On sugar beet, the briefing documents supplied by Mr. Donnellan deal with crop cover and its sequestration value. How realistic is it for sugar beet to be used a covering crop for up to four or five months of the year? Typically, there was a covering crop from late June until December.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: I was asking about its sequestration value as a covering crop.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: Okay. I was just wondering if Teagasc had done any research in that regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Donnellan for his helpful contribution and for being very patient in answering many questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: I welcome our witnesses: Mr. Michael Spellman, Mr. T.J. Flanagan, and Mr. Eamonn Farrell of the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society, ICOS; Mr. Gerry Loftus and Ms Bridget Murphy of the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association, INHFA; Mr. Pat McCormack and Mr. Lorcan McCabe of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, ICMSA; and Mr. Joe Healy, Mr. Thomas Cooney and Mr. Damian...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: Mr. Spellman is over time. Will he make some concluding remarks and include the rest of his contribution during the debate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: I invite Mr. Gerry Loftus from the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association to make his contribution. I ask him to keep it to five minutes, please, as I want to give everybody an opportunity to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)
Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Loftus. I invite Mr. Pat McCormack of the ICMSA to speak.