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Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: Was that mandate put into operation?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: Was it used?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: What about 1964? There are a lot of songs about that year.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: The issue I raise is what the number should be. I am in favour of retaining the triple lock. I am in favour of multilateralism and the UN mandate. Professor Murphy set out that under existing law, we can deploy more than 12 in certain circumstances, in rescue missions but not in the case of narcotics. I can see an argument, as somebody in favour of neutrality, for increasing that number...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: That is my point. That is the very reason I put it to the witnesses, because I think that.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: Will the Professor please come back to us?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a timeline for construction to begin on a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31317/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will sanction the provision of a minibus to provide transport under the school transport scheme, to convey primary students from the Portlaoise area to where there is a shortage of transport to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31318/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if cases in which bus operators are being told by the RSA (driver testing section) that they cannot book a test for D1 or D Category at present as category B tests are being prioritised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31556/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 381. To ask the Minister for Health when safeguarding regulation for nursing homes will be put in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31244/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (11 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 382. To ask the Minister for Health the reason HIQA do not have a direct complaints service line for families of older people in nursing homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31245/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 383. To ask the Minister for Health how the situation arose where the nursing home in Portlaoise owned by a provider (details supplied) was in breach of a restriction on admissions imposed by HIQA that came into effect on 22 April 2025 continued to take in residents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31246/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 384. To ask the Minister for Health the expected time it will take for the review into all nursing homes owned by a company (details supplied); the person or body that will be doing that review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31247/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: This matter relates to nursing homes and the lack of enforcement of standards. Last week, we witnessed shocking scenes in the Residence nursing home in Portlaoise and the Beneavin nursing home in Dublin. I am sure the Minister of State is aware that there are other cases as well. We saw was: a shocking level of neglect; abusive behaviour; residents told to soil on incontinence pads;...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State. I would like an explanation for a whistleblower having, after two years of inaction on the part of the chief inspector and HIQA, to go to the media to highlight all of this. Surely that is a scandalous situation. They say you judge a society by how it treats its weakest. The weakest are the elderly and the very young - infant children. The Minister of State...

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: Having vacant homes in the middle of a housing crisis is a scandal, particularly when they are local authority houses. There are more than 2,700 vacant at the moment. A third have been vacant for more than a year. This is simply not on. Reletting times average more than eight months and are much more in many cases. The cost of preparing a home for reletting has increased in five years by...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: There are a lot of things I could say about housing, but because of the announcement from Government I feel compelled to comment on the new rent proposals. The new restrictions, such as they are, or rather the changes, will mean there are no controls for new builds and no controls for new tenancies when tenants change. This is going to drive up already sky-high rents. This is really going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the members of the Housing Commission and I thank them for their work, much of which I agree with but some of which I do not. I know there was not total agreement among all the members of the commission; that is the world we live in. My first question is for Ms King. I read with interest the recommendations regarding what should happen with private rented accommodation. Does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: Would it specifically take account of energy rating and property size? I ask Ms King to respond briefly because I have very little time.