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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I am talking about the social ones. These were social.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: Okay. Could I ask Ms Behan to get-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: Yes, we need regulation to change that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: Bearing in mind that this issue is in relation to social housing built by approved housing bodies, from what we can ascertain to date, there is no protection there in terms of the State's investment, local authority investment or public investment after the encumbered period ends. As a committee, we should actually follow this up with the regulator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: There is a principal officer in her Department who is supposed to be looking after this, and the regulator.

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important issue. On the attacks on the Indian community, I have many Indian neighbours in the housing estate I live in. Most of them are working in the health services and they are doing great work and are very good people. We need to counter these racist attacks on them. We need a fair, efficient and rules-based...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Just Transition (18 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I have a record of the projects that got funding. My concern is that the worst affected areas did not get funding. It was not targeted at them. Money was allocated by Laois County Council for tourism, which is good, for example to Emo Court. It is located in the middle of the county. I also welcome funding for The Forum in Mountmellick. It is good news that the Junction 17 business...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Just Transition (18 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State. My concern is that of the total available fund of €185 million, a reply to a previous parliamentary question shows that approximately €93 million has been spent. The reply to the question was received about a month ago. We are about 50% of the way through the funding. The feeling I get from people who have been showing an interest in the fund...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Just Transition (18 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: 85. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding provided to projects and initiatives in County Laois from the national and European just transition funds, under the various headings, to date in 2025, by recipients; the amount granted to each, and the purposes for which it is to be used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49377/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Just Transition (18 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: The issue I am raising with the Ministers of State relates to the distribution of the just transition funding that came from the European Union and the €16 million that came from the State. I have concerns in this regard. It is supposed to be for the former peat harvesting areas. Under EU funding, they are designated as coal regions. The State made the case successfully for funding...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Budget Process (18 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: 27. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the commitment the Government have given to increase defence spending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37866/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: 300. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider allowing those on primary social welfare payments, such as disability allowance, to receive half rate payments on bereaved partners pension, or vice versa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49498/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Company Closures (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. If 145 people are employed in IDA-backed companies in Laois, that is actually a decline of nine from the last figures. It is very disappointing. As question has to be asked about why Laois is being ignored time and again. I know everybody will back his or her own corner but I think if one looks at the map of the 26 counties and at the number of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Company Closures (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I raise this important issue because 132 workers at Leprino Foods in Portlaoise received the news on 18 and 19 August that the plant will close and will be wound down over this year and next year. This is an important facility. When it opened there were great hopes and I certainly had great hope because at last we had a large, substantial manufacturing plant in the constituency. The record...

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: In the short time I have, I want to raise the issue of special school places in County Laois. The Saplings school in Graiguecullen had to move out of the building it was in. It is now located in the village of Killeshin in prefabs. The construction work started on a new school in March 2023, However, after ground works were carried out and the walls were built on the greenfield site at...

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important issue. The State has ratified the UNCRPD and the Government now has a strategy. I welcome all of that but let us see how we are doing on it. The diagnosis of autism has increased. That is obviously because there are more diagnoses being done. That is good, but it is too slow. There is a 16-month waiting list for a lot of families....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: Will he halt his plans and do something to save tenants from March? People leave tenancies for different reasons and-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: -----when properties become vacant, they are faced with a free-for-all. The Government's 2% rent increase cap is irrelevant. It is on paper. Landlords will completely ignore. They can because the legislation says they can ignore it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: That is what the Government's legislation says.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: The Government left us with a free-for-all.