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Young Carers: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome this motion from the Labour Party. The proposals in it are very sensible and should be implemented. I also acknowledge the work of Family Carers Ireland and the young carers, some of whom are here, as well as the Laois-Offaly family carers association and the work it does. The means test needs to be abolished. Carers are on call 24-7. It is not like any other job. They live...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply. When we discuss this previously, he indicated that a review was under way or getting under way. While I accept that it is there in law and welcome the clarification regarding the 1984 Act, the Minister, who was until recently a practising barrister, will know from the courts that it is clear there is a consistency problem. He used the word himself and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: 117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress regarding the term of review on the use of concurrent and consecutive sentencing guidelines for judges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12368/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: My question is about the progress being made on the review of concurrent and consecutive sentencing. I have discussed the need for movement on this with the Minister outside the Dáil Chamber previously. It is not about locking people up and throwing away the key, but we need some common sense in the sentencing guidelines.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply. He outlined that there is provision in law for consecutive sentencing and that he is of the opinion that should happen for serious offences. However, in the recent case of Joe Drennan - a young man from near Mountrath in County Laois, where I come from, who was mowed down at a bus stop coming home from work - the driver of the car had 46 previous...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (20 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: 158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update regarding a domestic violence refuge centre in Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12366/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (20 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: 193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made in the provision of domestic violence refuge centres for the nine counties that are currently without; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12367/25]

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: The proposed changes to this scheme are greatly concerning. I believe they will cause havoc. This is a scheme broadly welcomed across the House. It is one that has seemed to be working. Does it need to be improved? Everything, of course, can be improved and I would have no objections to that. However, the proposed restrictions the Government is going to put on this scheme could render...

Report of the Housing Commission: Statements (Resumed) (19 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: The housing targets were missed last year by a country mile. The leaders of the Government promised before the election that up to 40,000 units would be delivered, but when we got through the election, we discovered that we just about built 30,000. The signs this year for social housing in particular, and indeed for housing delivery overall, are not very promising. Two areas that are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: 708. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to sanction the provision of extra accommodation for the two special ASD classrooms for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12049/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Stations (19 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: 928. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advance the plans to build a new fire station in Rathdowney, County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12047/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Constitutional Amendments (19 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: 929. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps the Government will be taking to progress the 35th amendment of the Constitution (water in public ownership); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12048/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (19 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: 1615. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline, in the decisions of the multidisciplinary meetings at St. James’s Hospital under gastro-intestinal conference, the number of patients with oesophageal cancer determined 'likely invasive' over the age of 70 years, in each of the years 2016 to 2024 and to date in 2025, and in tabular form. [11327/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (19 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: 1616. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline, in the decisions of the multidisciplinary meetings at St. James’s Hospital under gastro-intestinal conference, the number of patients with oesophageal cancer determined "likely invasive" that were recommended palliative radiotherapy as a treatment; and the number of these patients aged over 70 years, in each of the years 2016 to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (19 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: 1617. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline, in the decisions of the multidisciplinary meetings at St. James’s Hospital under gastro-intestinal conference, the number of patients with oesophageal cancer stage I and stage II that were provided palliative radiotherapy; and the number aged over 70 years, in each of the years 2016 to 2024 and to date in 2025, and in tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (19 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: 1618. To ask the Minister for Health the guidelines followed in the application of brachytherapy to determine patient suitability at St. Luke's Hospital, Rathgar. [11330/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I raise the issue of staffing of children's disability network teams across the country. I have replies here from the HSE that say between 22% and 29% of posts are vacant. In Laois, I can tell the Minister that there are posts where there is 100% vacancy and 67% vacancy. In Laois, there is a chronic situation regarding staffing. The figures for network 12, which covers most of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply. While there are moves afoot, it needs to be at a scale and a pace to match the demand that is there. The HSE states in one of its replies to me that there is an apprenticeship programme for social workers. Can there be apprenticeship programmes for other disciplines? Maybe that cannot be done but that is possibly one area that could be used. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Cards (6 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: 76. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine the threshold for full medical card entitlement for those over 66 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8791/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Cards (6 Mar 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to put this question. I congratulate the Minister and the Minister of State beside her, Deputy Murnane O'Connor, on their appointments. It is the first time I have had an opportunity to raise an issue with the Minister in the Dáil, so I wish her the best of luck in her position. She has a big job ahead of her. I want to raise with her the income threshold...