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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: 532. To ask the Minister for Health if, given the stated need for radiotherapists, the HSE is now recruiting for these positions within the State and abroad. [28416/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (29 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: 534. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify during which class school children in Laois are getting their first dental examination appointments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28463/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (29 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: 535. To ask the Minister for Health the oldest age group of children and their school class currently in County Laois that are waiting for their first dental exam; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28464/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (29 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: 536. To ask the Minister for Health the average timeframe for children to be seen for their first dental appointment across the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28465/25]

Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (28 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue of workers' rights. Over the past 40 years, I have long been involved in campaigns, with workers and as a worker myself on many occasions, trying to get basic rights. I broadly welcome the Bill. It makes the necessary changes to the insolvency payments scheme but it is coming late. I welcome that it will cater for the situation at...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: It involves a small amount of money and requires a ministerial directive from the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, who was sitting beside the Taoiseach. Maybe she will address the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: Yesterday, we had a well-attended presentation from SMA Ireland in the AV room. Its priority is to secure access to the life-changing treatments and medicines for people with spinal muscular atrophy issues. We were told this is caused due to a loss of motor neuron nerve cells. It is an important issue. SMA can have life-limiting effects. It can cause difficulty for swallowing, breathing,...

Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: Constituents and people across the 32 counties of Ireland are watching on in horror. They depend on us to take action with regard to what is happening in Gaza. There is merciless bombing of hospitals, clinics, homes and tents, with families, children and men being slaughtered. There is forced starvation and famine while convoys of food are a mile or two away. Men and women are being...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (28 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: 384. To ask the Minister for Health To outline the number of practising GPs, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27870/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (28 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: 385. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs practicing and working as part of the general medical scheme, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27871/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: Going back to the 100% mortgages, the proposal is daft. That is my own opinion about it for a number of reasons, some of which the witnesses have outlined. There is an issue with regard to people in private rental accommodation who have been paying rent over a three-, five-, six- or eight-year period. The rent they pay is in excess of what a mortgage on the same home would be. I wish to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: We are still paying the price of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: We are still paying the interest on those loans.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: Before I move to my next question, is Dr. O’Toole saying that perhaps lending institutions should give that aspect more attention?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: In response to one of the contributions, Dr. Kelly mentioned that 100% mortgages would be likely to drive up prices and that he did not see them leading to an increase in supply. Does the shared equity scheme not do the same thing? Regarding prices, the curve seemed to go on a steep incline after the shared equity scheme and some other ones were brought in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: Could I ask Dr. Kelly a question about supply? It has been mentioned that rent controls or rent pressure zones, RPZs, limit supply. For example, Portlaoise is in one but there does not seem to be limited supply in Portlaoise. A lot of sites are very active in the area and are being built on. On this relationship between rents and supply, during the Celtic tiger, in one year we built...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: I wish to ask both witnesses about land. The Kenny report, which was done under the then Fine Gael Government in 1974 if I recall correctly, advocated putting structures in place to deal with this issue. It was never implemented. It was put on a shelf and it has been there since. On the issue of land, how do the witnesses see this being dealt with? It is obviously driving up prices,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: It was basically to cap the price of land to a small multiple of the pre-zoning period. It was agricultural or unzoned land. It would only go so much beyond that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: Yes.