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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (9 Oct 2012)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers affected by the pay cut for new entrants to teaching, the cap on qualification allowances for new entrants to teaching and the abolition of qualification allowances for new entrants to teaching; if he will provide specific information on the number of teachers who commenced teaching between 1 January, 2011 and 5 December,...

Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Brian Stanley: If you operate at 65%, which has been the average, then we are possibly looking at beyond Christmas of 2025. If you operate at 65% in terms of progress, then we could be looking at January 2026.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: Yes, I remember his name. That school was in prefabs at the time. Seeing the conditions at Kolbe is believing. It is intolerable. We will copy our correspondence to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. The Deputy is correct to say that Department was cited. The issue of construction inflation arose at the meeting last night regarding...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 19 - Exchequer receipts from National Lottery ticket sales (8 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: When I looked at the summary of the 2018 accounts, and some material attached to them, I was puzzled as to why a loan would be taken out at a 9% interest rate in 2014. If I had wanted to, I would have been able to get a loan at 0.5% interest in 2014. Other entities would also have been able to do that if they had wanted to. Why did the board draw down a loan at a 9% interest rate? It is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: It is €119 billion: electricity at €36 billion, transport at €42 billion and buildings at €31 billion. Is it agreed that we write back and ask Mr. Griffin if the figure includes everything?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Brian Stanley: I am just taking a quick glance at the figures, you are certainly looking at well in excess of €1.3 or €1.4 billion, given what it is costing at the moment,

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

Brian Stanley: So we have 100,000 to make up in two years. That would mean multiples of the current figures. At the present rate, at best, we are looking at approximately 40,000 of an increase, which would leave us 60,000 short for 2025.

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Brian Stanley: We have to finish at 2 p.m. I have some questions. The number of presenters Mr. Kelly represents at RTÉ is three of the top ten. How many people engaged with RTÉ does he represent in total at RTÉ?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: If you are driving a car at 100 km/h and you are going to Cork, you will get there at the set time of what it takes, but if you drive at 60 km/h, it will take longer. Yes? Okay. We will suspend the meeting for ten minutes-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: Look at the tables. Someone who goes to open a bank account will be asking about this. Look at the offerings from the banks. An interest rate of 0.1% is about as good as it gets. If you go in to borrow money, you are looking at multiples of that and perhaps a rate of 4%.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: I brought up the issue of e-scooters at the local joint policing committee meeting last week. I received a reply to a parliamentary question about the legality of the use of e-scooters. I do not have a copy with me, but I did give one to the local superintendent for distribution at the meeting in question. The reply indicated that the use of electric scooters in public places is not legal...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites (14 Oct 2021)

Brian Stanley: I understand that the Government signed off on it at the time but the concerns raised by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, including professional people working in that Department, made many of us nervous about the whole process at the time. Those of us who were on the communications committee at the time were very concerned about it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: We have spoken about the finance that is going to the HSE and about the services at the other end. We have looked at mental health. Primary care is the most important of it and there seems to be a complete breakdown between the budget that is going in and what is happening at the far end in services. It is in that space-----

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (8 May 2018)

Brian Stanley: 315. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for an insulin pump at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise for persons with type 1 diabetes; the average waiting time across the health service for same; the number of persons on the list for a pump at the hospital; and the number under 18 years of age waiting on the pump at the hospital in tabular form [19894/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: A figure for total commitments was mentioned. According to my notes, 30 PPP schemes were fully operational at the end of 2022, six were at development stage and future commitments totalled €6.3 billion. I have in front of me a pie chart setting out figures for the OPW, housing, health, the courts, education and transport, with the final two being the largest, at €1.7 billion...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: In relation to the licence fee, a Supplementary Estimate was sought back in 2022. According to the figures I have here, it was in the region of €15 million, as I understand it. That was granted at the time. RTÉ has operated at a loss in five of the last six years. Income is down in the region of €100 million over a six-year period and costs are up €30 million in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (17 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I have followed what he said here very carefully. I welcome the fact there is some forward planning happening under the National Council for Special Education. That is really important. On this forward planning, the Minister of State said works are under way for the 2024-2025 school year and there are 389 new special classes. In Laois, I have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Park and Ride Facilities (6 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his answer. I am glad to hear that we are on the same page in expanding the number of electric vehicle charging points. The point is that there is not one at Ballybrophy and we want one, two or three. Traditionally, the station at Ballybrophy has been quiet. It is situated in a rural area between Rathdowney and Borris-in-Ossory and becoming busy again, which is no...

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Brian Stanley: Mr. Kelly has outlined that well and I thank him for that. According to some of the documents, it seems that Mr. Kelly has significant influence and power in terms of negotiating at RTÉ. It has been said to me more than once over the years that he is the real director general at RTÉ. Does that have any basis in fact? It has been said not by somebody on the street corner but by...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Jun 2011)

Brian Stanley: Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the respite services at a centre (details supplied) are due to end, that the kitchen in the centre has been recently refurbished at considerable cost, that it is already located on the hospital campus at Tullamore, that the Health Service Executive propose to relocate this elsewhere and his view on...