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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Prompt Payments (24 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to reduce the 62 day average payment delay culture in Ireland which is having a large negative effect on small business. [3243/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Irish companies in receipt of exporting supports, both soft and financial. [3244/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (29 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration has been given to making payment of rent supplement directly to landlords through their bank accounts. [4069/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (29 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the practice of top up, undeclared, payments which landlords are demanding of rent supplement tenants, in order that they will officially reduce the demanded rent to satisfy the community welfare officer; and the steps she will take to prevent this practice. [4068/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Establishment of Planning Regulator: Discussion with Minister of State (29 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the Minister of State and her officials and thank her for the presentation and documentation sent to us. They were very informative. I agree with the Chairman's comments at the outset regarding the small number of people elected to the Dáil who have been found guilty of any form of corruption during that period. Since the foundation of the State, a great number of local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Establishment of Planning Regulator: Discussion with Minister of State (29 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: That is the model for the way forward and in that regard I would make some suggestions. The first is that we would have greater notification of county development plans. Currently, they go on public display but the notification often does not reach the public. Members of the public will often come to see one as a councillor and say that he or she did not see the advertisement in the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (30 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a decision will be made in relation to the battlefield site on Moore Street, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4498/13]

Climate Change Bill 2013: First Stage (31 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to set a target for the year 2050 for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; to establish the Department of the Taoiseach as the co-ordinating department under the Act; to confer powers on the Taoiseach to make regulations; to provide for carbon budgets; to establish an Office of Climate Change and Renewable Energy and a...

Climate Change Bill 2013: First Stage (31 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason for the delay in producing a climate change heads of bill as promised in 2012. [6051/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: I am disappointed by the Minister's answer as he informed me previously that climate change legislation was at an advanced stage and would come before the House shortly. Trying to nail down the Minister on this issue is like trying to nail jelly to a wall.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: It is like trying to nail jelly to a wall.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: The Minister is being highly evasive on this issue. This time last year, he promised the Bill would be ready before the summer. The summer came and went and we did not see it. He then published a roadmap and promised the legislation, which is in the programme for Government, would be ready by Christmas. This Bill was a Fine Gael priority in opposition and is also a priority for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: I ask the Minister to answer the series of questions I asked arising from his reply to my original question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: The Minister did so in this House.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: The Minister's roadmap is in a cul-de-sac.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply. I am pleased he will introduce legislation relatively soon. Sinn Féin is putting him under pressure on this issue because we believe it is important. Notwithstanding that the country is in economic difficulty, as the Minister noted, this issue is affecting incomes, particularly farm incomes. Climate change is having a negative effect on their...

Other Questions: NAMA Social Housing (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: On question No. 193, the problem is that the State, through the taxpayer, is taking on the liability with NAMA. As Deputy Ellis indicated, NAMA is a State company which means it is owned by the citizens of the State. The problem is that we have taken on the liability but now NAMA seems to be in hock to the developers, in the sense that it is leasing from them. I have a suggestion that...

Other Questions: NAMA Social Housing (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: Houses come under that.

Other Questions: NAMA Social Housing (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: There are hundreds of them.