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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]

Committee on Defence and National Security: Business of Joint Committee (2 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: Before we start the meeting, the Minister for Defence spoke in the last week on sending peacekeepers to Ukraine. It is obviously abhorrent what Russia is doing there at the moment, but he was speaking at the national day of commemoration for veterans and he said "Ireland certainly wouldn't recuse itself" from the conversation and would be "eager to assist". Lieutenant General Rossa Mulcahy...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Business of Joint Committee (2 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: I am just saying those are the implications of that statement. Could we ask if that is the Government's position, if it is agreed by the committee?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Business of Joint Committee (2 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Chair.

Committee on Defence and National Security: National Maritime Security Strategy: Department of Defence (2 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: My first question relates to the current level of protection. From discussions in this room and elsewhere in the Oireachtas, it is clear we have a low level of defence and protection of our undersea infrastructure at the moment. Given our position globally and the amount of territorial sea that is within the domain of this State, it is key that we be able to protect that infrastructure....

Committee on Defence and National Security: National Maritime Security Strategy: Department of Defence (2 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: With respect, that could mean anything. I am trying to understand. As the principal officer in the unit, surely Dr. Stanley would have a notion of what is deployed at the moment. Is it just two naval ships patrolling the Irish seas?

Committee on Defence and National Security: National Maritime Security Strategy: Department of Defence (2 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: To date, have there been major incidents where undersea infrastructure has been damaged? Obviously, that the likes of Internet cables, energy pipelines and undersea cables for electricity be protected. Have there been incidents where damage has happened?

Committee on Defence and National Security: National Maritime Security Strategy: Department of Defence (2 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: Within Irish territorial waters, has damage been caused to any undersea infrastructure?

Committee on Defence and National Security: National Maritime Security Strategy: Department of Defence (2 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: Is it correct that neither the Naval Service nor the Defence Forces have brought to the attention of the Department any damage to date to undersea cables or undersea infrastructure that Dr. Stanley is aware of?

Committee on Defence and National Security: National Maritime Security Strategy: Department of Defence (2 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: I am just trying to get the picture of where things are at. There is broad agreement that what we have is not adequate at present. I think that is accepted. There will have to be increased spending to improve the Naval Service and other Defence Forces to be able to monitor and have the appropriate technology, etc. I am not in a position to say what technology is acquired - that is for the...

Committee on Defence and National Security: National Maritime Security Strategy: Department of Defence (2 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: Of the €1.7 billion increase between now and 2030-----