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Order of Business (12 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: I want to ask the Taoiseach about climate change. We are producing one of the highest rates of carbon dioxide per capita in the world. We had the promise of legislation last year. The Minister for the Environment and Local Government told us we would have it in the spring but spring and summer came and we were told in the autumn that we would have it before Christmas. The Minister...

Order of Business (12 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: We were told last Friday that we would see it today.

Topical Issue Debate: Development Contributions (12 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: My concern is that this will spread across counties such as Kildare, Laois, Offaly and Westmeath. Wicklow County Council is going after the people who purchased the houses and who are now in negative equity. The developers got their money and the banks are getting their money. Everybody has been paid but the householders are getting screwed, again. Along with carrying the bank debts, they...

Topical Issue Debate: Development Contributions (12 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To write to local authorities asking them to establish the approach being adopted generally by them is to do things the wrong way around. I agree with the previous speakers. We must establish what the legal position is and the Government and the House should tell local authorities what should happen. My information is that planning permission is granted to a developer and is a contract...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (12 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in having Garda vetting clearance issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [6814/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Effects of Flooding: Discussion with Irish Farmers Association (12 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Silke, Mr. Parlon, Mr. McHugh and Mr. Gunning for coming before the committee and making their presentation. Mr. Silke has conveyed in words how grave the situation is. The section with which I am most familiar is west Offaly. I have received many complaints from people living in the area and I am very concerned about it. Like Deputy Cowen I have been involved in meetings with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Effects of Flooding: Discussion with Irish Farmers Association (12 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: Yes, on the issue of climate change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Effects of Flooding: Discussion with Irish Farmers Association (12 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: There are a number of points to consider to ensure that we do not simply walk out of it and nothing happens. Deputy Corcoran Kennedy helpfully said that the Taoiseach has asked Deputy Martin Heydon to pull the various reports together. A discussion on this that was to take place in the Dáil was cancelled because of the outcome of the Smithwick tribunal but discussion on this needs to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Effects of Flooding: Discussion with Irish Farmers Association (12 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: They need the power to tell them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Effects of Flooding: Discussion with Irish Farmers Association (12 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: We must not walk out of the room and leave this matter hanging in mid-air, with various things happening but no action achieved. Deputy Martin Heydon is doing a report on behalf of the Taoiseach, and that is welcome. He is pulling the various strands of the reports together and I hope we get an outcome to that. I propose that we seek a debate on this matter in the Dáil. I will lobby...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Effects of Flooding: Discussion with Irish Farmers Association (12 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: I propose that the committee seek a debate in the House on this issue and ask that the Taoiseach would present the findings of Deputy Heydon's report to the House, that the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, would come to the Dáil for that debate and that the committee recommend that the OPW be in charge of this matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Effects of Flooding: Discussion with Irish Farmers Association (12 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: Yes. I will do that.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Support Agency (13 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline the intended make up of the board of the Child and Family Support Agency; if she will confirm that a representative from the family resource centres will have full board membership; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7304/13]

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: It socialised the debt.

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Doyle indicated that there were those who had stated that a substantially altered deal on the promissory notes could not be done. There were others who stated that such a deal should not be done. Sinn Féin said that it should be done. However, the fact is that a substantially altered deal has not been done. The debt relating to the former Anglo Irish Bank has not gone away and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Products (14 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the concerns specific to people with epilepsy regarding the implications for their medication of generic substitution, including scientific evidence of the need for absolute precision in dosage and format of drugs for use in case of seizures; if he will address these concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7471/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (14 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he or his Department will receive the report on hospital groups; the date on which he will publish the report; his plans to progress the implementation of hospital groups; if he intends to publish the report and its recommendations before it goes to Cabinet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7470/13]

Mortgage Restructuring: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: There has been a constant crisis in housing for decades. We in Sinn Féin believe there is a fundamental right to housing. Other parties might not agree but we are marked out tonight in our belief that people have absolute rights that are non-negotiable: the right from the cradle to the grave to a home, education and health. In any civilised society those rights should be fundamental...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount the State paid in subsidies to toll operators due to low traffic numbers in 2012; the projected cost of these subsidies for 2013; and the work he has done to renegotiate these subsidies. [8579/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (20 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will detail the matter which were discussed when he met Bill Gates recently; and if there are any new partnerships between Irish Aid or Irish aid agencies and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation expected. [8846/13]