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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (2 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: 205. To ask the Minister for Health the initiatives she is putting in place to increase the number of GPs in County Laois; the timeline; the funding allocated for this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51531/25]

Situation in Gaza: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: After 78 years of occupation, with Palestinians driven off their land, hounded and subjected to exile, murder, torture and apartheid - the list goes on - in the past 24 months, we have seen levels of depravity never witnessed by my generation. There have been aerial bombardments, slaughter on a scale that words cannot describe, starvation and neighbourhoods bombed out of existence and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Family Resource Centres (1 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: 160. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if he will make provision in the forthcoming Budget to allow for an increase in core funding of the Family Resource Centres of €80,000 additional funding per centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52260/25]

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the proposals set out in this motion. I must say there have been many promises regarding improvements to the insurance industry but these have not happened for the customers. The costs of motor, business and home insurance are up. Insurance costs for community and sports groups are up sky high. Health insurance is out of reach and causing significant problems, especially for...

Global Sumud Flotilla: Motion (30 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the families of those who are on the flotilla. I express my solidarity and my support for what they are doing. What Israel has got away with over the past 80 years is nearly beyond words. Within the past 23 months, it has illegally bombed Iran, it has bombed Qatar, literally blowing up the negotiating table, it has bombed southern Lebanon, levelling large parts of it, and, of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: So those words mean nothing.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: In 2013, the Taoiseach rounded on Fine Gael in this House over the proposal to change the triple lock. He said that it would damage neutrality and "would contribute nothing to international peace". When the Nice referendum was rejected in 2001 and Lisbon in 2008, his Government - Fianna Fáil was in power - gave a guarantee to the electorate in the form of a solemn national declaration...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: We might as well be, though.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: And US troops-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: My apologies for being late as I was caught in the Dáil. I welcome the witnesses. What has come to light in the reports so far is damning, to say the least. I know that efforts are being made to get on top of these issues. I hope this can happen and that the Peter McVerry Trust can get back on track. I know it has done good work in the past and that needs to be acknowledged as well....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: So the Probation Service would nominate them to this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I ask Ms Woods to come back to me with the breakdown of those figures and regarding the tenancies, who actually owns the premises, the number that are leased and where they are. Sometimes, when there is an issue with a house in an estate, no one knows who owns it. That can be a problem. I also ask for a contact number. It only has been once in the past five years that I could have done...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (30 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: 449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will increase the capitation grant for primary schools in Budget 2026, to ensure schools can meet basic operational costs without relying on voluntary contributions from parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51452/25]

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome Ms McCarthy, Mr. Richardson and Mr. Gargan. They are very welcome and I am delighted they are here because I have raised the issue of the Reserve Defence Force a couple of times. A few things have been a revelation to me. We were given figures that showed the strength is down to approximately 940, is that right?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: Okay but compared to what it used to be under the Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil, it is a fraction of that. I have a couple of questions. The paper the witnesses supplied was very good. It is a revelation in that the total budget is 0.34% of total defence spending. The allocation for Reserve pay of €3.5 million, which is 0.34% of the overall spending of the defence budget,...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: If he could be brief to give us a picture of what is expected.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I will ask about the typical activities because obviously, recruits and members have day jobs. Are the tasks mainly performed at weekends? What are the demands?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: The security duties are at barracks around the country?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: There is no allowance for travel or anything like that?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: On the target the Department, the Government and the higher echelons of the Defence Forces have, what strength do they wish to bring it to?