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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: ...we go forward? Is it going up or going down? Are there areas in the country that are red on the Department's map where the need will be fairly strong and other areas where the need falls? What does a childcare provider do when told the facilities being used can no longer be used? I have an example of this myself in the case of a small school where a childcare provider was told it would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The 50th Anniversary of Guaranteed Irish: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: ...what is made in Ireland what is not made in Ireland and so on. That is a bit confusing. Ms O'Connell finished up by saying that she wanted the State to assist further in the work Guaranteed Irish does, especially on the exporting side. I ask her to focus on that and give us some practical examples of how she thinks the State, Government and the Oireachtas can assist.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The 50th Anniversary of Guaranteed Irish: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: Maybe that is something that this committee, with a remit covering enterprise, trade and employment, could support by writing to the Minister and the various relevant agencies. Does Guaranteed Irish cover Northern Ireland as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The 50th Anniversary of Guaranteed Irish: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: Does Guaranteed Irish have a relationship with employer organisations such as IBEC, the Small Firms Association, ISME and Chambers Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The 50th Anniversary of Guaranteed Irish: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: It does not have charitable status.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Emergency Alliance: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: ...involved in 20 disasters internationally last year. It is certainly right that there is more than one at any time. Many of the organisations have their own fundraising abilities and mechanisms. Does Ms de Barra see the alliance taking over from those in time, is that where things are going? Trócaire raised, correct me if I am wrong, €93 million last year and Action Aid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Wind Energy Strategy: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (17 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: ...that the consumer will pay less for energy and, as somebody has said, we might eventually be a Saudi Arabia of wind energy eventually and maybe generate relatively cheap energy from wind, which does not cost anything except the technology to make it happen. I thank our guests for their responses.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (16 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: What plans does the Minister and her Department have for another second level school in east Cork? This is probably one of the fastest-growing areas in the country at the moment, with thousands of houses planned but many of the schools there are already at capacity, even though they have got fantastic extensions. I would be interested in the Minister's response.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: Again to jump to something else, there is the STAR programme and the home school community liaison pilot with ten new co-ordinator posts in non-DEIS schools as well. Does Ms O'Neill have any indication as to how successful those programme are, with the home school community liaison people in place in particular, and the engagement with parents and the home as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: ...'s physical health. This needs further debate and discussion and a more nuanced approach. I think we have just touched on that. It is something Mr. Mellon has highlighted in his presentation. Does he want to say more on that?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)

David Stanton: ...? I am not clear on that, as I could not hear him properly. The Taoiseach told me in the Dáil recently that a special allocation had been made from the Exchequer to address the damage done in Donegal. Does the Minister intend to ask for a special allocation from the Department of public expenditure and reform to cover the damage to roads in Cork? I understand that the current...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)

David Stanton: ...virtually impassable. I have driven on them myself and they are in an awful condition. They will require additional funding. Has the €13 million been handed over to Cork County Council? Does the Minister not agree that there is a significant gap between €13 million and €50 million? The council does not have the funding to do it. This was an exceptional event....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)

David Stanton: ...such as Mallow? Why did the Minister give €7 million back to the Exchequer last year when he could have given €1.2 million to Cork County Council to advance this scheme to the planning stage? Does he agree that the delay in the project last year has put it back even further? We have lost a year and €300,000 is only a pittance compared to what is really required. It...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (7 Mar 2024)

David Stanton: 201. To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to the vacant property tax (VPT), the number of times that the Revenue Commissioners have requested property owners who have assessed that VPT does not apply to their property, to confirm the status of their property or to submit a VHT return on their property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11213/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

David Stanton: ...one, thereby ensuring funding equality based on geographical size. County Louth has one town and Cork has one. That is not really fair in many ways. Maybe the Minister will consider this. Does the Minister agree that the best way to have town and village renewal is to deal with vacancy and dereliction and get people living along the streets, as my colleague said already? Every...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (29 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: ...to next year, 2025. Such is the scale of the damage, that this is going to go on for a number of years. The council cannot do it all in one year. If it got all the money this year it could not spend it because it does not have the manpower or resources to do it. However, it does need more than it got, or at least double of what it got - at least that, if not more - to try to bring the...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: An Dara Céim - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: .... His thesis was that people vote with their hearts, not their heads. Part of the conundrum we have with this type of legislation is that while it is vitally important, it is not emotional. It does not seize people in the same way as other legislation and issues we discuss here. Deputy Naughten and others outlined very well the importance of legislation. Just to clarify, the word...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

David Stanton: I wish to ask about illegal content. Will Dr. Evans define how the commission decides what is illegal and what is not illegal? How does the commission come to the conclusion on whether something is illegal or harmful?