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

Brian Stanley: In broad terms, what percentage of that will be for the navy and naval spending?

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

Brian Stanley: Surely at this stage they would have their shopping list of what is required.

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

Brian Stanley: Is it one third or half that figure?

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

Brian Stanley: In terms of big costs, if there are currently two ships that can be put to sea, the expectation is that we would need a further three or four. Surely at this stage there are conversations happening between the senior officers in the navy and Dr. Stanley's Department, at principal officer and Secretary General level, about the cost and that will be part of the strategy. She is correct that...

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

Brian Stanley: As regards other military and naval hardware required and the big costs, what are the other main items that will take up a sizable part of that budget?

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

Brian Stanley: I was hoping we would have some shape on that this morning, although I understand the final plan strategy has to go before the Tánaiste and be agreed. Finally, with regard to interference with Internet cables by other countries, do the Department and the Defence Forces have much evidence of that? There have been reports in the media at times of other countries interfering with...

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

Brian Stanley: Does one of the issues the Department is dealing with as part of this strategy relate to other countries and other states that are tapping into Internet cables and are able to intercept messages between the Government in this country and governments in other countries, or between business leaders in this country and business leaders in other countries? There has been a lot of evidence of...

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

Brian Stanley: Would this not be a critical issue for the State? Every state has to protect its own infrastructure and information systems and everything else, both financially and from a security point of view. If this is not part of the strategy, should it not be part of it?

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

Brian Stanley: Chair, if we are doing a report on this, it is really important, without anyone getting paranoid about it, that in the context of undersea infrastructure and communication cables, one part of the strategy should be about monitoring interference by other countries with Internet connections between this State and other states, whether it is private business or the business of the State and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport (2 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: 115. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to resolve the issue of public patients in nursing home care being unable to access ambulance transfer to hospital appointments when necessary, including some who are a long distance away; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51532/25]

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....