Results 19,881-19,900 of 20,298 for speaker:Brian Stanley

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (22 Jan 2025)

Brian Stanley: 1259. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review the current rules regarding registered childminders, who use their own home, having the facility to use someone on their approved emergency contact list in case of a medical appointment, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1560/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Jan 2025)

Brian Stanley: 1302. To ask the Minister for Health if the situation of only one part-time palliative care social worker covering all of counties Laois and Offaly will be rectified, given other counties with a similar population have two full-time palliative care social workers. [46178/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Jan 2025)

Brian Stanley: 1365. To ask the Minister for Health to ensure that the HSE store for disabled aids equipment in Mountmellick, County Laois is made safe and reopened, given the current unacceptable situation where equipment cannot be accessed for the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46531/24]

Government’s Response to Storm Éowyn: Statements (Resumed) (5 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: The effects of the storm in County Laois were severe, with hundreds of roads blocked and trees down. I acknowledge the work of the ESB staff, the outdoor staff of Laois County Council, the volunteers in Laois Civil Defence and all the others who played a role in dealing with the emergency situation. Lessons must be learned. The grid needs to be upgraded but some parties in this House are...

Situation in Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: The occupied territories Bill must be passed as a matter of urgency. We need to stop the fooling around about it. The terrorist State of Israel has carried out a campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people. There are almost 50,000 dead in Gaza alone, an estimated 10,000 buried beneath the rubble, hundreds of thousands of people injured and lives ruined. Most of Gaza lies in ruins,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Legislative Measures (5 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department and the Government will facilitate the passage of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 that crucially incorporates a ban, not just on imports of goods from these areas, but also bans the import of services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3102/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Road Projects (5 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to make sure that funding is finally provided for the construction of the long-awaited relief road (N80) for Mountmellick town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3105/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: School Transport (5 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if those over 70 years of age with satisfactory medical reports will be allowed to drive school busses given that currently this is not possible and is resulting in bus operators having problems with the recruitment of drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3147/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 263. To ask the Minister for Finance to consider changing the VAT rate for boarding kennels and catteries as the rate is currently 23%, whereas the rate for groomers and veterinary work is 13.5%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2582/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (5 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 332. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to respond to the request by an organisation (details supplied) to have the remains of the five executed Invincibles exhumed form the yard in Kilmainham Gaol; if his Department and the OPW will facilitate this in order that they can be reinterred in Glasnevin Cemetery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3096/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Trade Agreements (5 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 364. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will work with others here and at EU level to ensure that the Mercosur deal on imports is ratified by as few EU Member States as possible; if a commitment will be given that the Government will not ratify such a deal due to the potential impact on Ireland’s agriculture and food sector; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: School Accommodation (5 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to give the go-ahead for the provision of two modular classrooms which are urgently required for a school (details supplied); to address this with senior officials in her Department to alleviate the current shortage of space in the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3071/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider reviewing the criteria for illness benefit, to enable those who are self-employed and paying an S Class PRSI contribution to qualify for payment on this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2251/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Court Accommodation (5 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 825. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to ensure that funding is finally provided for the construction of the new courthouse on the site acquired in Portlaoise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3088/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (5 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 1251. To ask the Minister for Health to prioritise the funding required for the construction of a primary care centre in Portlaoise town, given the town and surrounding area does not have one; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3100/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: The programme for Government commits to a review of the school transport scheme. The biggest obstacle within that scheme at the moment is the ban on drivers over 70. We have the ludicrous situation where such drivers cannot drive a minibus bringing ten pupils to school under the school transport scheme but later in the day they can drive a 72-seater bus full of children to the local...

Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: I will focus on health in the short time I have. I read the programme for Government document with interest. As the area of health is obviously extremely important, I want to focus on that. The programme for Government references a universal healthcare mission but from reading the pages attached to that, it is anything but universal healthcare. It cannot be delivered based on what is on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 214. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline what steps that have been taken by Government to have the vacant post in CDNT filled; the steps that have been taken to improve staffing levels in the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3838/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 215. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff in the Child Disability Networks Teams in County Laois; the percentage of posts filled in occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and psychology and other disciplines, in tabular form. [3839/25]

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome this very important motion from the Labour Party. What we have had is the Government hoodwinking and misleading the people during the election campaign on a number of issues but spectacularly on housing. People were told that 40,000 homes would be delivered in 2024 when in fact the number was going to be 30,000. The facts were there to prove that. We have to increase supply. It...