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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (4 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: 209. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made regarding the competitive dialogue and establishment of a framework agreement for the provision of private ambulance services for the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28724/19]
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: There are significant concerns about this deal. Beef farmers are caught in a bind given the way factories have manipulated the situation. Some of that has been highlighted recently through news of beef barons who do not even pay tax while the rest of us must. Beef farmers will be caught by Brexit. We have little control over those issues. Our Government has shown itself to be very...
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: They are on the floor.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Expenditure (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: 400. To ask the Minister for Health the average cost per hour for home helps employed directly by the HSE; and the average cost per hour for home helps provided to the HSE by agencies. [29400/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: I thank the witnesses for attending. We know from the ESB documents that the ESB knew about the leaks from the fluid cables at least since 2009. At that point, did the ESB alert the commission regarding the leaks? When did it happen? Dr. McGowan outlined the commission's role in the opening statement and clarified that in the discussion some moments ago. If there were works to be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: That is the problem. Did he inform the commission that they were leaking and that it was having environmental consequences?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: It made the commission aware that the cables were leaking fluid.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Did the commission bring that to the attention of the EPA at that point? The witnesses referred to the commission's remit in their opening statement and I understand it. The commission's role is not to police environmental matters but it is the Commission for Regulation of Utilities. Surely there would an onus on the commission to bring it to the attention of the EPA or to ask the ESB if...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: At that point, did the commission check with the ESB to see if it had notified the EPA that this was having an environmental impact or did the commission bring it to the attention of the EPA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Had the ESB notified the EPA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Would it be correct to assume that, if the ESB informed the witnesses in the report that it was in substantial compliance, that was actually misleading?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Since 2006, the ESB has been required to report to the CRU regarding environmental performance, including about cable insulation fluid. The CRU website states that the key policy objective of the organisation is to ensure that energy is supplied across the State in a safe fashion. There is some distance to go to get to the bottom of this. Does the CRU believe that it has achieved that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Just for gas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: PR3 covered the 2011 to 2015 period and ESB Networks requested funding for the replacement of cables. The commission allowed for €20.5 million, which included replacement of HV fluid for the cables. The reported spend was €6.2 million. How much did the ESB request? Did it request the €20.5 million that the commission subsequently allowed or did it look for more than...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: It looked for €28 million in PR4.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: The commission has responsibility for water, gas and electricity. Does the CRU have the staff, resources, finance and equipment required to carry out its role? There have been discussions in the past that the commission is understaffed and under-resourced. Is that still the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: How many staff are required?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities (9 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: How many does the commission need?
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: I move:That Dáil Éireann: notes:— that the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement negotiated by the European Commission is a bad deal for Ireland and for the planet; — that the deal will see the importing of 99,000 tonnes of beef into the European Union (EU) per year, tariff free, which will devastate the Irish beef industry, while simultaneously doing severe climate damage;...
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2019)
Brian Stanley: Sinn Féin has tabled this motion because it believes the EU-Mercosur trade deal is bad for Ireland, farmers and the environment. We want the Government to stand up for Irish interests and reject this disastrous trade deal. We cannot stand over a trade deal which undermines completely Ireland's climate change targets and the Paris Agreement. We cannot support a deal which requires and...