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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Lottery (2 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: 127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has sought any legal advice regarding the use of unclaimed prize money by a company (details supplied) for self-promotional marketing purposes. [10536/23]

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I will move to emergency generation in a minute. The Government must take greater measures to control and manage our energy needs. Households continue to receive sky-high energy bills, with electricity and gas bills more than double what they were just two years ago. One pensioner in my constituency, who lives alone, received a bill of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (7 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: 117. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the total value of money received in carbon tax in 2021 and 2022. [11410/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (7 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: 273. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out the different projects, schemes and Departments the carbon tax revenue in 2021 and 2022 was allocated to, in tabular form. [11411/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (7 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: 380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the requirement to have Leaving Certificate Irish will be relaxed to enter teacher training colleges due to the large number of non-Irish nationals living in the country. [11151/23]

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I welcome everyone to this morning's meeting. No apologies have been received. Those attending in the committee room are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. Members of the committee attending remotely must do so from within the precincts of Leinster House. This is due to the constitutional requirement that in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: 159. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the recommendations on the review of retained firefighters has been brought to Cabinet and accepted by Government; and if so, if there is a timeline for implementation of the 13 measures. [11525/23]

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Before I call Mr. Walsh, I want to express the committee's concern at that situation with the financial statements that were laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas with errors. I note also that they were laid late. We have now received the SEAI's corrected annual report, but we have serious concerns about how the SEAI submitted these accounts to the Department with the errors and the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: The problem would be if the Deputy wants to go to Mayo, for example, or Leitrim or Sligo. He could find himself like the Dutch ambassador, I believe it was, who could not find a charging point. That is the problem. You might have to knock on the door of somebody who has a charging point and ask to use theirs. You have to find somebody who has one.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: There were none where he was going to the meeting, as I understand it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy has asked a question. Hold on for a second. If the witnesses do not have the information now, would it be possible to get it before the end of the meeting?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I am sure the SEAI is interacting with the one-stop shops on a weekly basis. Can our witnesses give the Deputy a verbal response to the question about the timescales involved? Our guests can then supply written information with more detail. The Deputy is trying to ascertain roughly how long it takes. What is the range involved? Is it one month to 12 months or one month to 24 months?...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy will have a second round.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Time, Deputy.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: To be helpful, can the SEAI answer that question because I have come across such instances?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Is it the better energy warmer home scheme or the individual grants scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: What is the situation? I am not trying to be awkward by asking that and simply want to figure this out. Let us say, under the better energy warmer home scheme, somebody gets an attic insulated, which is relatively easy, quick and relatively cheap, and then endeavours to do more work after a couple of years. Am I correct to say that it is only in the last year or so that double-glazed...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: When these people look for a grant to cover the cost of putting in double-glazed windows in their home they are told they cannot get funding because they have already received a grant. That is the answer that people are given.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: I am talking about instances where people have wooden single-glazed white-deal windows, and the bottoms of them are rotten, ripped and torn.