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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I have a quick question on the 300,000 households or premises area. On the day of the press conference, a map was handed out and it was very clear to me what would happen. I could identify areas in my constituency, which I know best, where there were clusters of houses and quite a high density of housing for what are rural areas. Other more-difficult-to-reach premises were out the road, up...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: My second point-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: Was one of the reasons that the price was too high?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I have one very small point of clarification, if I may. Obviously, in terms of using pre-existing poles and ducts, a subsidy would be paid for permission to pass the area. Eir owns the poles and the other consortium, if successful, will want to hang its cables on those poles and run its cables through the ducting underground. The consortium would pay Eir for the lease or rental. Is that...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: 42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to simplify and speed up the process of approval by his Department for local authority housing schemes. [24032/19]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: The question concerns the steps the Department's officials are taking to simplify and speed up the process for approval by the Department for local authority housing schemes. I approach this in a constructive way. I know the Department cannot magic up houses with the flick of a switch. I am trying to come at this from the point of view of solutions. I have spoken to both the Minister and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. He referred to a timeline of 59 weeks, but this is not happening before 59 weeks in many cases. Schemes such as those in Portarlington and Conniberry Way in Portlaoise are all very welcome and all necessary, and I know the Department has taken some steps in this regard, but the process is still very slow and very costly. Since about 2002 or 2003...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I am not saying the houses are low-quality. What I am saying is that they are-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: No, that is not the point I made. I said we need a generic template. The Conniberry Way units are finished. The Minister sitting beside the Minister of State opened them. They are of a very high quality. The point I am trying to get across to the Minister of State is that the template for those houses could be used in other counties and other locations in County Laois. They could be...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: That is the key point.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: That is what is putting a cost on the Exchequer. Templates would reduce the cost.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: The people on the waiting lists will support the proposal I made.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider establishing generic housing designs for local authority housing in order to speed up the delivery of social housing. [24031/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: 976. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the figures for Rebuilding Ireland home loan approvals to date in counties Laois and Offaly; the number of applications pending; and if funding is available to fund those that may be approved. [23744/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I welcome the Minister of State and his departmental officials. What has happened is very regrettable. The Bill was well advanced when it was grinded to a halt by a money message. I listened carefully to what Senator Joe O'Reilly had to say. He mentioned that in 20 years we might have technology to remove carbon from fossil fuels such that we could continue to burn them. If we are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I have heard about waiting for the Government's climate action plan, but that does not stop any of these Bills from being moved forward. To take just the Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2016, it is mind-numbing how often other Members and I have raised the issue in the Chamber. My predecessor as Sinn Féin spokesperson on the environment in the last Dáil, Michael Colreavy, raised the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: How many times?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (11 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: I would like an answer to that question. I am sure there is a record of the number.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Brian Stanley: Before putting my questions to ComReg, I would like to set the scene in terms of its role. Until four or five years ago, ComReg did not have oversight in respect of Irish Water or broadband. Now ComReg is the regulatory body for-----