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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: I thank Mr. Benson.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: I thank again our guests for their time and work. Have they engaged with organisations like the Irish Association for the Social Integration of Offenders, IASIO, or Care After Prison? The name "Care After Prison" speaks for itself. The organisation helps people to get accommodation, jobs and supports when they leave prison. There are a large number of young Travellers in prison at the...

Garda Siochana (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: Between 2006 and 2007, joint policing committees were established. At that time we had urban district councils. There were five in my constituency: Midleton, Youghal, Cobh, Fermoy and one other in the county, so I found myself on six joint policing committees at the time. I found them very useful and informative because they brought policing right down to the ground. The people in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: I welcome the Minister to the committee. The trade deal between the EU and South Korea saved EU firms approximately €3 billion in scrapped or lowered custom duties. The CETA deal is in force provisionally. What savings are being made by Irish and EU firms with respect to the deal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: That is fine. There is reference to trade in manufacturing and services, public procurement, investment, intellectual property and sustainable development. How will small Irish companies benefit from the CETA deal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: I have read that CETA, as a progressive trade agreement, has some of the strongest commitments ever included in a trade deal to promote labour rights, environmental protection and sustainable development. It also integrates the EU's and Canada's "commitments to apply international rules on workers' rights, environmental protection and climate action". Will the Minister comment on those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: I received an email last night from a constituent. It looks like one of these emails that is going around. We probably get many the same ones. It made two points. One was on climate. It referred to the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issuing a code red for humanity, fossil fuels emissions being the main culprit and so on. The argument was made that, should CETA...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: The Minister is also on record as expressing concern that the provisional agreement currently in place could be terminated if CETA is not ratified. Will he expand on those concerns given the fact that at the moment many companies in Ireland are benefiting from the provisional agreement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: A constituent brought up concerns with respect to housing and residential property and real estate investment trusts, REITs. Canadian-based REITs could lose some of their income and profits if we make changes to housing policy here. Investors might sue us with respect to that if they thought it was unfair. Will the Minister comment on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: I understand CETA includes commitments on sustainable management of forestry, fisheries, agriculture and the environment. Will the Minister comment on that?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (21 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: 638. To ask the Minister for Health the current situation with respect to respite care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45066/21]

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: Thank you, Chair, for the invitation to attend and I thank the members of the HSE for attending as well. Like my colleagues, Deputies Buckley and O'Connor, I also attended the meeting in Midleton last night. In my almost 25 years in the Oireachtas I have never been to so sad a meeting; there were so many upset people. They were not all directly associated with families who had residents in...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: I thank the witnesses for that. By my reckoning, there are six or seven individuals, as Dr. O'Brien calls them, who now have some form of agreement with the HSE regarding a future placement. If that is the case, there are a number of people who have not reached agreement. If agreement cannot be reached - Mr. Fitzgerald keeps referring to the will and preference of the residents - and if...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: Leaving aside the concern and upset of the residents, their families and, indeed, the east Cork community at this stage, there is still no certainty or roadmap with respect to where quite a number of these residents may end up. Is it the case that many of the residents may end up in places outside the community, far removed from the places they know, what is familiar, the shops and the...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: I am sorry to interrupt, but when Dr. O'Brien says "close to the east Cork region" is she suggesting not even in the east Cork region, but further away again?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: Does that mean in Midleton?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: I understand that is moving anyway. Who was the individual official who made the final decision to close the centre?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: Does the HSE own the building and the grounds outright?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: Yes, the HSE fully owns it. Why did Mr. Fitzgerald pick 31 October, which is just five weeks away? Why not September, July, November or December? Why was it 31 October and is that date set in stone?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

David Stanton: There is nothing to stop Mr. Fitzgerald from pausing this decision until, as he stated, the will and preference of residents and their families are satisfied?