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Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (Resumed) (7 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Technical Group and the group of Independent Members for bringing forward this important motion. It is important to highlight this significant issue. If ever there was a bad example of self-regulation and self-regulation being no regulation it was the building industry in the past ten or 15 years and there have been many victims. Many families have suffered because of the...

Community Employment Schemes (7 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: Following the announcement of cuts to community employment schemes in the budget, a campaign against the proposed cuts was launched by supervisors and participants in the schemes and trade unions. The Minister gave a commitment to complete a review of community employment schemes by the end of March and stated on a number of occasions that individual schemes would not close and that...

Community Employment Schemes (7 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the commitment given by the Minister of State on behalf of the Minister for Social Protection that there will be no decrease in the number of community employment places allocated in 2012. That is important because most of those schemes provide vital services. The delay in the report is causing problems and is unacceptable. Despite the fact there is a commitment to financial...

Job Losses (7 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if the reduction of €772 million on exports in medical and pharmaceutical products in the first three months of 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011 has resulted or may result in job losses in this sector. [27330/12]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Redundancies: Banking Sector Redundancies (7 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to provide support for those in the banking sector who have been made or are in the process of being made unemployed. [27329/12]

Social Welfare Benefits (12 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the proposals to introduce a single working age payment. [28047/12]

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: I have a question on proposed local government legislation. There is supposed to be a consultation process under way, but local councillors have not yet been consulted on it. I would like to bring to the Taoiseach's attention that as of his afternoon, some town clerks around the country have not yet received the consultation document, which is supposed to be returned to the Minister's...

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: I am talking about the consultation document on the local government legislation. The responses on it are supposed to reach the Minister's office by 4 p.m. this coming Friday.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: I welcome this opportunity to speak on the motion. However, it is only proper to point out the irony of the motion's origin and the irony of pointing the finger of blame at the current Government for planning irregularities. The public would be excused for forgetting there was a change of government last year and that we had a government led by Fianna Fáil. The question is whether we can...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: -----but a total disaster for communities and good planning. In council chambers throughout the country the motto of officials and elected representatives was that developers were good, large development was good and community participation was bad. During that time I was a councillor and huge pressure was put on all of us to rezone and pass material contraventions. Some of these were good...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: ----- and instead decided to carry out yet another review. The Government claimed that an internal review process would replace the independent inquiries. However, we know that when it comes to policing planning and politics, internal reviews are synonymous with cover-ups and not getting to the truth.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (12 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: The local authorities concerned were Dublin City Council, Carlow County Council, Galway County Council, Cork City Council, Cork County Council, Meath County Council and Donegal County Council. All these councils, bar Donegal, are controlled by the parties in government. Many communities in these local authority areas and others have been victims of bad planning and they deserve to have the...

Written Answers — Illness Benefit: Illness Benefit (12 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on her proposals to cut entitlements to illness benefit. [28048/12]

Written Answers — Garda Vetting of Personnel: Garda Vetting of Personnel (12 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 484: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has been waiting since October 2010 for their garda vetting to be processed. [27887/12]

Written Answers — State Bodies: State Bodies (13 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to ensure that State bodies are subject to the same reporting requirements as their parent departments.. [28242/12]

Departmental Expenditure (14 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine if the limits on expenditure agreed under the bailout programme has the potential to adversely impact on the potential take-up of the EU infrastructural support, or other funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28863/12]

Departmental Expenditure (14 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply. Obviously the bailout programme places conditions and restrictions on expenditure across all Departments, including the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine, as the Minister outlined. It covers not only expenditure, but also policy as we have seen with other Departments. If the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine is bound by the Government...

Departmental Expenditure (14 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: If the element of co-funding has been increased across the schemes, obviously that will be beneficial. From the Minister's reply, do I understand correctly that the schemes that are co-funded may be affected but the ones that are 100% funded will not be affected under the restrictions of the troika programme?

Bovine Disease Controls (14 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine the restrictions that are in place on farmers whose farms are adjoining a farm testing positive for TB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28864/12]

Bovine Disease Controls (14 Jun 2012)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply. All Members are agreed this is an extremely important issue and it is essential that herds are kept free of disease and in particular of TB. However, the concern is there should not be overly severe restrictions on farmers whose farms are in proximity to farms on which there are infected herds. Once an acceptable level of disease control has been put in...