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Other Questions: Commercial Rates Calculations (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: There must be an income element to the rates - that is Sinn Féin policy. One of the problems small businesses are having is that if a premises is vacant for a period and a business takes it over, the rates carry over. The Minister often talks about the North and I am delighted he is starting to make comparisons between the two parts of Ireland. In the North, the rates are related to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Regulations (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made in introducing, in line with the Programme for Government, a public service obligation which would include a fee waiver scheme in respect of low income households for waste collection services. [5414/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the recommendation made by his Department to refuse grant funding under the Sports Capital Grant 2012 for Dublin City Council's application for funding to drain four pitches in Brickfield Park, Drimnagh, Dublin 12; and if he will outline the reasons the application was deemed invalid. [5848/13]

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Technical Group for tabling this important motion. Any pressure on the Government and the agencies to move on this €3 billion is welcome, but I am not optimistic about what kind of deal we will get. Last month Government Deputies had to grin and bear it as they voted through one of the most regressive budgets in recent years. More than €3 billion in cuts were...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Complaints Procedures (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to ensure that the outcome of investigations conducted as a result of complaints made by prisoners will be published. [5992/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Complaints Procedures (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to increase training of staff and management on the way to deal with prison complaints professionally; and his plans to inform prisoners of the new complaints system and ensure it is accessible. [5991/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí stationed in County Laois at present; and the number based in the county in each of the past four years. [6149/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Expenditure (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost to the State per annum for a child in foster placement with a family, including weekly/monthly payments to the family plus ancillary costs. [6214/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Expenditure (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the per capita funding paid to fostering agencies by the Health Service Executive has been reduced by 33%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6215/13]

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: A small part of County Kildare is going into the Laois constituency.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: Each constituency commission is established by the Government and is accountable to the Government and, by extension, the Houses of the Oireachtas. When the commission's recommendations are brought before this House, and it is the wish of Deputies that the name of a constituency should be changed, I think that should be done. At the end of the day, the commission's role is to produce a...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: I would say the Acting Chairman is delighted.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: I know it is a difficult task. It is like being handed a jigsaw with rules that mean it is hard for one to make all the pieces fit, so one takes out a Stanley knife or a sharp blade and starts cutting up the pieces of the jigsaw. I have told the Minister previously about the terrible thing about it from my point of view. I recognise that it is difficult to stick within the county...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: That is when the change is made. I have often had to telephone Carlow Town Council as well. That brings me on to my next point, which I will make briefly. The Minister and I have something in common in this regard. The location where I hold my clinic is actually in the Minister's constituency by approximately 100 yards.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: The swimming pool is close to the Numbers estate in Graiguecullen, in the Minister's area. Half of the Numbers estate is in Laois and half is in Carlow-Kilkenny, so I have it in the swimming pool, which is the most identifiable point in the area - not in the pool itself, I would add, but in the community rooms in the old school beside it. There is also a crèche there and the Department...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: The Minister and I are on opposite sides of the fence and I am sure-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: I was not here earlier either due to attendance at another meeting. I welcome the delegation. I would like to see the maximum amount of information being made available. The press should have it. The limitations that were put on the Freedom of Information Act 1997 under previous Governments were a retrograde step. Would the panel agree that there is a responsibility on the press that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: I can show Mr. Ó Mongáin an example.

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: The Water Services Bill is fundamentally flawed and draconian in its content. It establishes Irish Water as a subsidiary of a company, Bord Gáis Éireann, which the Government has indicated it wants to sell off. The new company will be given the power to install meters and charge families. Crucially, the Bill repeals the prohibition on water charges. Denmark, with 5.5 million...

Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: I have the figures. I ask the Minister of State to listen to what I have to say, as I did when he was speaking.