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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay. Does Mr. Devine wish to shed any light on this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay. I ask the witnesses to send that figure to the committee, please.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is okay. He might be able to slip a note to Mr. Gunning. It is always important to have the person with the money behind you. Can we have that figure before the end of the meeting? It is a very large building in question and there will be substantial energy costs. Are there projected annual costs for energy for this building?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I know that they fluctuate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Can Mr. Devine come back to this committee with an estimate of that cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay. Will it be cheaper than the three hospitals?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I hope it will be because some of them were built in the century before the last century. I hope that, in the last 100 years or so, we have improved on energy. Have the witnesses looked at annual maintenance costs? It is a substantial-looking building. What kind of figures are we talking about for maintenance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I ask the witnesses to come back to us on the issue of energy costs. That concludes our questioning. Before I conclude, I wish to note that Deputy Verona Murphy sent her apologies after the meeting began and as a result, it was not acknowledged at the start of the meeting but I wish to acknowledge that now. I thank the witnesses for attending. I also thank the people from the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of grants under the vacant and derelict homes scheme that were approved in the State in the first quarter of this year; the number that were in Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23748/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Staying with the health issue, we know how important primary care services are in keeping people out of hospital. As we move towards implementing Sláintecare, which has been moving way too slowly, I want to ask in particular about people in the east of County Laois near the County Carlow border. The people of Graiguecullen, Ballylynan, The Swan, Doonane, Crettyard and Killeen depend on...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Graiguecullen on the Laois-Carlow border.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: What is happening is that if elderly people and other people from that area need an eye test, they have to go to Athlone, which is a 230 km round trip.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Elderly people who need physiotherapy have to go to Portlaoise. They may not have a car. That is 85 km.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I am asking the Tánaiste to bring this back to the Minister for Health to ask him to get that centre expanded and upgraded in Graiguecullen.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: No, it is a health clinic, but a substantial number of services were provided there.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I accept that it is not a primary care centre-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: -----but we need is to have that health centre providing more services-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: -----for the people in that corner of Laois.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: People have to travel 230 km for an eye test.
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Funding (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: 6. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total funding allocated to tourism agencies for the years 2019 to 2023; and of this, the total spend on tourism in counties Laois and Offaly, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24027/24]