Results 21-40 of 20,010 for speaker:Brian Stanley

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: 960. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the provision of free hormone replacement therapy, given the commitment given in Budget 2025 for same; the reason for the delay with the pharmacists; and when women will be able to avail of this free therapy; and the date to resolve the issue (details supplied). [17035/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Grant Payments (8 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: 961. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to provide grants to first responders (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17036/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (3 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: I ask the Minister of State to address the situation of Mountmellick, which has been promised a relief road for a long number of years. It still has not happened and it is very important we get it. Mountmellick town has been neglected badly over the years in terms of infrastructure. This has been talked about and promised for about 30 years. Various options have been looked at for the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (3 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State. She mentioned the billions of euro that will be there between 2026 and 2030. The bypass did not make it into the 2025 period. We have come to the end of that now. The new funding announced a number of weeks ago did not include it either. I know some of those on the list, such as the Adare bypass, are badly needed, but there is a long list of other ones...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Interest Rates (3 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being taken to deal with very high interest rates being charged by debt management companies and vulture funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16080/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (3 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance the proportion of finance received from the sale of bank shares by the State that will be used for critical infrastructure such as water services and other essential services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16082/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (3 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance the profit obtained by the State from the sale of bank shares in 2024 and 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16079/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (3 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: 240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to change the current procedure for obtaining from the Revenue Commissioners a “Statement of liability“ to show proof of income, and to replace it with a simplified method of the applicant supplying their PPS number and date of birth, due to the current online process proving impossible for many applicants who...

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, and congratulate you on your elevation to high office. It is well deserved. The starting point, which the Minister of State will have to accept, is that house prices, rents and homelessness have skyrocketed. He cannot argue with that. A total of 51 people were homeless in County Laois in February. House prices have gone up 11.6%. The number of...

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: Some of those towns have the capacity to add on small schemes. If builders got low-interest finance they could use for that, it could be done. Why has the State not implemented the recommendations of the Kenny report from 1973, published 52 years ago? If I recall, it was actually commissioned by a Fine Gael-Labour Government and Mr. Justice Kenny set out very clearly how to keep land...

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: That would be helpful.

Estimates for Public Services 2025 (1 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to address this issue. It makes sense to amalgamate the Policing Authority and the Garda Síochána Inspectorate, provided that there is strong oversight. Some of the flaws have been highlighted by previous speakers and I am not going to go over them, but it is important that, by and large, the Garda get policing in this State right. Since police forces...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: I wish to ask about the commitment in the budget last October to provide free hormone replacement therapy, HRT, for women. We are told that pharmacies and the State are in deadlock over the provision of HRT. Pharmacies have indicated that they were not consulted about this. Women still have to pay for HRT despite the commitment given by the Government last October. Brigid is a widow who...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Correspondence (1 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: 134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his Department has had any contact from the US administration or the White House regarding the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; if so, the nature of those contacts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15085/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Neutrality (1 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: 183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his Department has had any contact from the US administration or the White House on a political level seeking the removal or dissolving of the triple lock in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15086/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: School Transport (1 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: 275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 5 February 2025, if he has engaged with the Minister of Education and Bus Éireann on the Programme for Government commitment regarding removing the exclusion of driver aged over 70 years from the school transport scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15044/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Official Engagements (1 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: 318. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had a meeting with the CEO of CIÉ since taking up his position as Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15735/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (1 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: 319. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the last increase in pensions payment was awarded on 1 July 2008, at 5.06% in the 1951 pensions scheme for staff who worked for CIE; if he has had any discussion regarding this matter of not having an increase in 16 years and if so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15736/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (1 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: 320. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine the case of pension entitlements (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15737/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (1 Apr 2025)

Brian Stanley: 704. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date on extending the age group that can get access to bowel screening (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15043/25]