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Private Members' Business: Community Employment Schemes: Motion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: A lone parent with three children was better off under the previous Fianna Fáil Government than under a Labour Party Minister. Lone parents were better off to the tune of €207 per week under Fianna Fáil and the Minister cannot spin or review her way out of that. Labour is making lone parents poorer. This is at a time when the Government has paid the former Anglo Irish Bank, a zombie...

Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: I would like to ask the Minister about promised legislation on distressed mortgages. I have asked the question before of the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister during Question Time, and I am still no further on with it. Four out of ten local authority loans are in serious distress of more than 90 days or more. I know that from an answer I received to a parliamentary question.

Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: It is on promised legislation. Just bear with me because I have tried this a number of times over the past six months and I have not got a straight answer. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government is present so I hope we can get a straight answer. Four out of ten local authority loans are in serious distress of 90 days or more, which is more than four to five times...

Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: The Government has the Keane report before it, as well as the personal insolvency Bill. Will the Minister include measures in the personal insolvency Bill to deal with this issue of distressed local authority loans? I ask for a straight answer. Will the Government honour the election promises by both parties to the people that they would deal with the issue of distressed loans?

Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: I asked about local authority loans.

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 27: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to increase financial support for start-up farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7068/12]

Written Answers — Credit Availability: Credit Availability (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to use his office to impress on the Department of Finance the need to ensure the bank credit facilities are made readily available to young farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7067/12]

Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: I ask the Taoiseach about the promised legislation on Irish water. On Saturday last, the Irish Farmers' Journal carried a quotation from the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, reporting him stating that Irish Water "will oversee everything to do with water and septic tanks across the country". I want the Taoiseach to clarify whether the Government has now decided...

Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: If the Government does that to the Irish Water, there will be the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, the EPA, the river basin management committees and local authorities. The Taoiseach will be aware that that will be a bureaucratic nightmare stretching the whole way from the Customs House to Belmullet.

Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: It is on forthcoming legislation. Will Irish Water have a role in overseeing,-----

Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: -----as the Minister stated, according to the Irish Farmers' Journal, in the implementation-----

Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: -----of standards of septic tanks-----

Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: -----because that would involve five separate bodies?

Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total number of young persons currently in receipt of after care services from the Health Service Executive; the number of aftercare workers employed by the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8057/12]

Written Answers — Constitutional Amendments: Constitutional Amendments (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which she will introduce a children's rights referendum Bill. [8056/12]

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: I wish to share time with Deputies Colreavy and McLellan. I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Bill. I firmly believe one cannot divorce the social from the economic, as economic decisions directly impact on people's lives. I note the previous speaker on the Government benches stated that people mattered in the Finance Bill but the problem is that they only matter a small bit. The...

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: We would not have handed it over to the banks. We would not have paid the Anglo Irish Bank promissory notes.

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: We would have reduced the burden on low earners by abolishing the universal social charge and taking half a million people out of the tax net. Our plan to introduce refund tax credits would have helped the poorest people in society, particularly those with gross earnings of less than €15,000 per annum. Our budget proposals would have removed the charge on medical card prescriptions. The...

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: A further £14.5 million has been provided for a child care strategy.

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: All this has been done even though the block grant from the Tory Government in Westminster has been cut by almost £5 billion.