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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: I thank Ms Breathnach for that response.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2021)

David Stanton: I welcome the Minister of State to the committee meeting. This seems like fairly technical stuff. The Department has saved some money through the Vote for Enterprise Ireland, EI, and is redistributing it through different mechanisms. I have just a few questions. Regarding the humanitarian flood relief scheme and the funding of €550,000 for it, am I right in saying that that money...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2021)

David Stanton: I have met some business people who benefited from that scheme when they were flooded and they were very grateful for the assistance provided. They needed help urgently and the money was paid very quickly. I have one final question. The Minister of State mentioned green and environmental schemes and one of the issues that is coming up frequently is remote working. In some cases, people...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (7 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: 53. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the connected hubs network to provide remote or hybrid work arrangements for employees is available to businesses of different sizes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60193/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (7 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: I congratulate the Government and Minister on this initiative. I suggest we have to scale this up even further to target larger employers who might employ hundreds of people, many of whom travel for many hours every day to cities and so forth when they could work in their own towns. We have, as has been mentioned, community centres and old buildings being repurposed. We need more than...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (7 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her response. I particularly thank her for recognising the need of large-scale employers and the workers in those operations. Has a national survey been undertaken with respect to the need for hubs across the country? Are there areas where there are no hubs? Has the Minister consulted with her colleague, the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (7 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for her approach and I encourage her to keep it up and to, maybe, ensure a whole-of-government approach in this area. A number of Departments can contribute to this. I welcome her remarks with regard to students. Can we go beyond facilitating students to link up to lectures and so forth and allow for research and development to take place? Collaboration, innovation...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (7 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: I recognise the work the Minister of State is doing in this area and his personal interest in it. With reference to Question No. 68, will he outline what supports are in place to assist communities that do not currently have a centre to develop one? Will he consider doing a national audit of towns and villages across the country to see where the deficits are and to encourage and support...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (7 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: I agree with what the Minister of State said but I encourage him to engage with local authorities in this matter. They need encouragement, support and a policy direction. Does he agree that community centres can provide services, facilities and a place for people, young and old, to go at night and where communities can really develop? We need more of them and, where there is a deficit,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Bodies (7 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: Will this task force will have any role in the security of mobile phones? How certain is the Minister that her phone, my phone and the Cathaoirleach’s phone are not being hacked or tapped at the moment, that someone is not listening into what she is doing and saying about where she is and who she is talking to, or the fact she is sitting beside the Minister of State, Deputy Joe...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (7 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: Is the community services fund open for new applications and, if not, is it intended to be? If so, how many a new applications would be accepted?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (7 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for being here to discuss this important issue. I also acknowledge her personal interest and involvement in this issue since it arose last summer. Last June, the announcement was made that the Owenacurra Centre would close on 31 October and that in the interim all residents, and their families where appropriate, would be consulted. It was also promised that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (7 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for her very positive response, particularly her assurance that residents will not be moved "until appropriate placements have been found for each person based on their individual assessed needs, will and preference." That means that no pressure will be put on people and they will have to agree before they move to location X, Y or Z. That is hugely important...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Flexible Work Practices (7 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: 83. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the connected hubs network is primarily focussed on providing remote or hybrid work options for individual use; if not, if the network is open to businesses seeking longer-term, formal work arrangements for company employees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60194/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, has said that within the next 30 years, 2 million of our citizens could be impacted by rising sea levels. It is projected that we will have a permanent sea level rise of up to 1 m within the next 30 years. Should we not be planning for this now, as other countries are? The national coastal change management...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: In my constituency, Cobh, Youghal and Midleton will be flooded if this happens.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: Is the Government proactive in examining ways of sharing intellectual property throughout the globe with countries such as India, which I understand has the capacity to produce large volumes of vaccines? What is the Government's position with regard to the coronavirus treatment acceleration programme, CTAP?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (9 Dec 2021)

David Stanton: I join my colleagues in asking the Minister of State to look at ways of streamlining the system. I have met farmers who are facing into a very busy period at present with milking, cows calving and so forth. It is a 24-7 job with health and safety issues involved. They have identified workers abroad in places such as the Philippines, but the amount of time it takes to get the work permit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Review of Traveller Inclusion Policy, Education and Health: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

David Stanton: I welcome the Minister and thank him for his kind words. I thank his officials, whom I know well from many years chairing the NTRIS group. I can empathise regarding many of the issues raised because I have been through this quite a bit. I agree fully with the Minister with respect to the outcomes and the need to have a measurement in this regard. The pilot project on education that was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Review of Traveller Inclusion Policy, Education and Health: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister and his officials for being with us. I am particularly interested in youth services. We did a lot of work on the national youth justice strategy. I am wondering about the actions and interests concerning youth services and engagement with teenagers, in particular teenage Travellers, that pertain to the Minister's Department. Perhaps the Minister would give us an...