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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: Will the Taoiseach prioritise it and commit to providing the money-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: -----and service level agreement that the SOSAD organisation needs?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I ask the Taoiseach and Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: Time and money is running out.

Waste in Public Expenditure: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: This debate is welcome. However, the motion has a whiff of populism about it. As somebody who comes from a left, republican position, I believe in good public services, but I also believe in spending public money very well. We need to stop waste. Although those of us on the left advocate spending public money and creating good public services, it does not mean that we support wasting...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Cards (6 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: 76. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine the threshold for full medical card entitlement for those over 66 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8791/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Cards (6 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to put this question. I congratulate the Minister and the Minister of State beside her, Deputy Murnane O'Connor, on their appointments. It is the first time I have had an opportunity to raise an issue with the Minister in the Dáil, so I wish her the best of luck in her position. She has a big job ahead of her. I want to raise with her the income threshold...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Cards (6 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for her reply. I have another question about people of working age, or people under 66, as they are referred to in the question. This question refers to people over 66 years of age. I have deliberately phrased the questions that way because for people who are under 66, the income thresholds are €184 for a person who is single and €201.50 if you are over...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Cards (6 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for the reply. That is helpful because the GP visit card is welcome. We acknowledge that it is there. The figures she gave mean that, I think, about one in 12 people who are entitled to it have applied for it and got it, or one in 11 or something like that. Obviously, there is a big piece of work there for the Government and all of us to try to get the word out there...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I raise the issue of staffing of children's disability network teams across the country. I have replies here from the HSE that say between 22% and 29% of posts are vacant. In Laois, I can tell the Minister that there are posts where there is 100% vacancy and 67% vacancy. In Laois, there is a chronic situation regarding staffing. The figures for network 12, which covers most of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply. While there are moves afoot, it needs to be at a scale and a pace to match the demand that is there. The HSE states in one of its replies to me that there is an apprenticeship programme for social workers. Can there be apprenticeship programmes for other disciplines? Maybe that cannot be done but that is possibly one area that could be used. We...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (6 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: 84. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department is taking any steps to undertaking a review for full medical card assessment for people of working age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8792/25]

Report of the Housing Commission: Statements (Resumed) (19 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: The housing targets were missed last year by a country mile. The leaders of the Government promised before the election that up to 40,000 units would be delivered, but when we got through the election, we discovered that we just about built 30,000. The signs this year for social housing in particular, and indeed for housing delivery overall, are not very promising. Two areas that are...

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: The proposed changes to this scheme are greatly concerning. I believe they will cause havoc. This is a scheme broadly welcomed across the House. It is one that has seemed to be working. Does it need to be improved? Everything, of course, can be improved and I would have no objections to that. However, the proposed restrictions the Government is going to put on this scheme could render...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: 117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress regarding the term of review on the use of concurrent and consecutive sentencing guidelines for judges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12368/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: My question is about the progress being made on the review of concurrent and consecutive sentencing. I have discussed the need for movement on this with the Minister outside the Dáil Chamber previously. It is not about locking people up and throwing away the key, but we need some common sense in the sentencing guidelines.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply. He outlined that there is provision in law for consecutive sentencing and that he is of the opinion that should happen for serious offences. However, in the recent case of Joe Drennan - a young man from near Mountrath in County Laois, where I come from, who was mowed down at a bus stop coming home from work - the driver of the car had 46 previous...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply. When we discuss this previously, he indicated that a review was under way or getting under way. While I accept that it is there in law and welcome the clarification regarding the 1984 Act, the Minister, who was until recently a practising barrister, will know from the courts that it is clear there is a consistency problem. He used the word himself and...

Young Carers: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome this motion from the Labour Party. The proposals in it are very sensible and should be implemented. I also acknowledge the work of Family Carers Ireland and the young carers, some of whom are here, as well as the Laois-Offaly family carers association and the work it does. The means test needs to be abolished. Carers are on call 24-7. It is not like any other job. They live...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fire Service (20 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I am raising the issue of the need for a new fire station in Rathdowney. This has been sought for a number of years now. The current station was built to house a jeep and the small mobile pump they used to pull behind them. I do not know if the Minister of State would remember them, the old Land Rovers. Smaller towns had them and that is what the station housed. There are three vehicles...