Results 13,961-13,980 of 14,127 for speaker:David Stanton

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (2 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: I recognise the Minister's commitment but, as he said himself, the family resource centres were looking for €8 million nationally, or €240,000 each, in core funding. Certainly, any help is a help. Will the Minister outline the process involved in deciding where the new family resource centres will be situated? Who will make that decision? Do communities apply in some shape...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Family Resource Centres (2 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: How soon will this application be available so communities will be able to apply? Who will be entitled to make an application? Where will it come from? Will it be local authorities or local community groups? Who will be qualified to apply for inclusion in the new programme to expand the network? If a family resource centre is in trouble financially during the year and has to cut back...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: 34. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase core funding for childcare providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39083/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: 58. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the rationale for the random selection of passport applications for spot checks following consideration by a checker; when this procedure was introduced; the number of such selections that have been made; the outcomes to date; if he will ensure that decisions are not delayed as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39315/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (2 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: 76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of putting in place a rapid bus transit system alongside the Midleton to Youghal greenway in east Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39331/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Sports Facilities (2 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Topical Issue debate No. 2 of 25 September 2024, if she has received a request from Cork Education and Training Board pertaining to lands in the ownership of her Department adjacent to the newly opened campus (details supplied) in east Cork; if she has responded or intends to respond to any such request; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (2 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: 255. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to provide a primary care centre for Youghal, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39401/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: In 1820, Edward Bransfield, a Corkman of course, was first credited with sighting Antarctica and in light of that, and of rising sea levels, when will we accede to the Antarctic Treaty, which has been promised for quite a number of years?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: Apologies for being late. There is a committee on drugs meeting in another room and two of us are members of it. Bilocation is proving difficult. However, I have read the material presented to us. I thank the delegates for the work they are doing and for what they have produced. I have just a few questions. The last statement that Professor Haynes made was that anti-Traveller racism...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: I am a Deputy, not a Minister. That ship has sailed.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: Could I stop Dr. Joyce there? When I was a garsún, which was a few years ago, Traveller people moved around. They called to farms – I was on a small farm – and they did seasonal labour. They were welcome, in the main, but that seems to have changed in more recent times. The racism Professor Haynes spoke about seems to have got worse in recent times. In the past,...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: I will get back to the justice side of it because I have some questions on that as well, but I am looking at the overall societal and sociological situation. Has any research been done in the general population as to why people have such a racist view of Travellers, including in the Garda Síochána? Why are the views of the Garda Síochána and the general population as the...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: That particular piece of work is important. A lot of the reaction of politicians comes from the people. I know we also have a duty to lead, but it also comes from below. If there is a rumour, for instance, that a Traveller family is going to be housed in a certain place, we will get a lot of telephone calls. If what Professor Schweppe just said could be focused on and dealt with, that...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: I know I do not have much time left but are the witnesses aware of any work undertaken by An Garda Síochána or the courts to improve relationships with the Traveller community? Is anything proactive going on there?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice Report: Discussion (3 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: I have a final question. We have minority indigenous populations in different parts of the world that have also experienced the kind of discrimination that has been outlined. Are there any examples of best practice in any of those locations that have focused on trying to help or to resolve matters?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and their work. There has been a powerful contribution from all of the witnesses this morning and we appreciate it. In considering some of the issues that have come up in the past at the committee, we looked at the so-called Portuguese model, and I went there myself 15 years ago and saw what they were doing. They decriminalise small amounts...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: Such as where?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the witnesses. I apologise but I must leave to attend another committee meeting. It is madness but that is the way it works.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (3 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: 18. To ask the Minister for Health his future plans for a building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38919/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (3 Oct 2024)

David Stanton: 28. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the planned usage for the existing community hospital building (details supplied) when the current residents have been moved to the new building currently being constructed on an adjacent site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38918/24]