Results 461-480 of 20,377 for speaker:Brian Stanley

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (4 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: 157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps taken in conjunction with Transport Infrastructure Ireland to include the Mountmellick relief road in the National Development Plan funding envelope; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8790/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (25 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if, given that Bord na Móna is a State-owned entity and as he is the sole shareholder, he can re-assure workers that their jobs and pensions, and so on, will remain secure knowing that an unlimited private company is purchasing Bord na Móna; if that of future new employees will also be secure; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (25 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites per local authority that have levies placed on them and the amount collected from these levies, in tabular form. [7374/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 507. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites zoned for housing in each county by the local authorities, in tabular form. [7373/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (25 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 569. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant sites that are identified as per county by each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8173/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (25 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 570. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount collected on vacant site levies, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8174/25]

Importance of Agrifood to the Irish Economy: Statements (20 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Aire agus an Aire Stáit. Go n-eirí libh. I hope they do well in the posts. They have a lot of responsibility to take on. It is important the Government take a firm position on the Mercosur deal. There is the weight of the Germans, the German car industry and other more industrialised countries on the other side. It is important the Irish...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: I wish to raise the issue of the relief road for Mountmellick, which is long-promised. It has been promised for years. Traffic volumes have increased. More than 8,500 vehicles go through the centre of the town every day. A lot of that traffic is HGVs going from the west of Ireland and the midlands to the port of Rosslare. A feasibility study has been carried out at a cost of more than...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (20 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 56. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will engage with the IDA regarding the serious lack of IDA-backed jobs in Laois. [6512/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (20 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 63. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will raise with the IDA the absence of any progress on businesses locating to the vacant 50-acre, IDA-owned site in Portlaoise, County Laois. [6513/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (20 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will immediately engage with the board and senior management of Bord na Móna to halt its sale to a private company. [6510/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (20 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to enhance the role and capacity of Bord na Móna to play a leading role in the provision of renewable energy and recycling and re-use of waste. [6511/25]

Provision of Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: Comhghairdeas to the Minister and Minister of State on their appointments. They have a big job ahead of them and I wish them well in it. The right of every child to access an education system is a fundamental one and the children in Laois and those attending St. Francis School in Portlaoise are no different from those anywhere else in the country. The school has 119 children with complex...

Road Safety: Statements (13 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: New speed limits were introduced on 7 February. We all hope this will be a significant step in the right direction, particularly in introducing improvements in road safety and, most important, reducing road fatalities and serious injuries, most of which can be life-changing. All one has to do is take a look at the number of people being sent to the National Rehabilitation Centre in Dún...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: The proposed sale of Bord na Móna's recycling and waste management businesses, including the facility at Kyletalesha, Portlaoise, to a private company must be halted. If it goes ahead, it will mean the transfer of a large recycling and waste recovery business, which will go from public ownership into the hands of a private investor. That will create a whole new situation for the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: In County Laois, too.

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome this very important motion from the Labour Party. What we have had is the Government hoodwinking and misleading the people during the election campaign on a number of issues but spectacularly on housing. People were told that 40,000 homes would be delivered in 2024 when in fact the number was going to be 30,000. The facts were there to prove that. We have to increase supply. It...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (11 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: 584. To ask the Minister for Health to provide confirmation of required documentation for an S1 application (details supplied). [4010/25]

Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: I will focus on health in the short time I have. I read the programme for Government document with interest. As the area of health is obviously extremely important, I want to focus on that. The programme for Government references a universal healthcare mission but from reading the pages attached to that, it is anything but universal healthcare. It cannot be delivered based on what is on...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Feb 2025)

Brian Stanley: The programme for Government commits to a review of the school transport scheme. The biggest obstacle within that scheme at the moment is the ban on drivers over 70. We have the ludicrous situation where such drivers cannot drive a minibus bringing ten pupils to school under the school transport scheme but later in the day they can drive a 72-seater bus full of children to the local...