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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.

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

Brian Stanley: At market price.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Qualifications Recognition (27 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: 572. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland recognise nursing qualifications, including psychiatric nursing qualifications attained through UK and other foreign universities. [26721/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Qualifications Recognition (27 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: 573. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland recognise the working experience of those with nursing qualifications working within the NHS and other national health services outside of Ireland; and if she will clarify the difficulties faced in accepting these qualifications. [26722/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (27 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: 587. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the situation regarding young adults, aged between 16 -17, presenting to A&E and being admitted as an inpatient, if they are treated as a minor or as an adult in relation to mental health issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26786/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (27 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: 588. To ask the Minister for Health if an out of hours psychology team is assigned to A&E services, during the hours of 5pm to 8am, and if she could provide the details of these for all emergency departments, in tabular form. [26787/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: 663. To ask the Minister for Health if combivent/pulmicort is covered under the GMS Scheme; if not, the reason for its removal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26941/25]

Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2025: First Stage (22 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2025: First Stage (22 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to regulate wind turbines to provide limits on the exportation of product generated from wind turbines, to protect nearby dwellings from noise and shadow flicker by providing minimum set back distances, to allow access to public consultative processes; and to provide for related matters. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 May 2025)

Brian Stanley: The issue I am again raising with the Tánaiste is the bar on over-70s being allowed to drive under the school bus scheme. Drivers should be able to continue working within the scheme until they are 75 provided they pass a strict medical test and a strict eyesight test annually. The situation whereby they are arbitrarily forced to retire at 70 is wrong. We already have a shortage of...