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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: Did the witnesses have an input into those?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: I am familiar with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: That happens. If there is something caught between two Departments, you are banjaxed, and no one is responsible. That needs to be sorted and is obviously a priority.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: They are with the Housing Agency. I am surprised that nobody from the sector has had an input. We will take it. We do not know what is in them. We need to see them and see if they are up to scratch. People like the MUD Act Reform Group, Clúid and the local authorities need to see them. I have another question on the oversight and regulation role. There has to be some oversight...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: I turn to multi-tenure complexes, which a lot of them are, where the likes of Clúid or Respond are. There are 100 units and they have maybe 20, the private landlords have 50 and then there is a minority of owner-occupiers. In that case, what are the voting rights? If you go into an AGM and have 20 units, do you go in with 20 votes in your back pocket or do you go in with one?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: When the Cathaoirleach was speaking, it came back to me that in my time as a councillor 20 years ago, I had a disagreement with the Department over the partitions between apartments. In one major development in my constituency, there is an apartment complex where the apartments are separated by plasterboard. I argued this with the Department. I am not a construction expert, although I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Multiple Unit Developments: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: Ultimately, they have to find the person responsible.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tillage Sector (14 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: 98. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will recognise the need to put greater emphasis on policies and support for the tillage sector, which if expanded would reduce the carbon output from farming and improve the sustainability of the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54658/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tillage Sector (14 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: 131. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will put in place a realistic support scheme for the viability of tillage farming and to increase the percentage of farmland tilled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54657/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Local Community Safety Partnerships (9 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: 29. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if provision will be made for TDs to be part of the new community safety partnerships that are now replacing JPCs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54141/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (9 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: 74. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visits that remand prisoners are entitled per week, due to contradictory information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54140/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the permitted time under S.I. No. 75/2022 to exempt such buildings for conversion to residential use beyond the date set, 31 December 2025, and to allow for another two years of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54247/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: School Funding (9 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: 249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will intervene in the case of the funding of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54331/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: A budget is about choices. The Government could have helped the squeezed middle and the working poor, but what did it do? In the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, rents will go up from March, the local property tax has just gone up, and electricity prices are going up at the same time as groceries and other items are going up in price. Some of these increases could have been addressed but...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: In the area of health, which I know is expensive, let us get it right in terms of primary care. Access to primary care is a priority. A pressing issue is the need for changes to the income threshold for medical cards. That stands at a scandalous €184 for a single person. For a couple with two children - let us think about this - it is €342. When they go over that, they lose...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (8 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: 45. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date on which guidelines will finally be put in place for the construction of large wind farms. [49020/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will implement protections for students from excessive rent increases that may occur following on from the new rent rules; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39573/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: The month of October is associated with Halloween and children play trick or treat at Halloween. However, the Government's budget is all trick and no treats. That is what we get from the Government. There was an election in the previous year and Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael literally went out and bought votes. There was money for everything, there were one-offs and there was helicopter...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (7 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on Government spending on the long-term housing scheme from the start of scheme to now; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52957/25]