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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (15 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to raise this important matter with the Minister. I want him to halt the relocation of the post office in Mountmellick from O'Connell Square to Connolly Street. The relocation will have a huge impact on the town centre. It is not just in Mountmellick that this happening; it is also being done in Thurles, where the post office is being moved from Liberty Square to...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: The right to a home is the most basic demand a person can have. Without the right to a home, a person cannot have any stability in life. He or she cannot start a family or plan for the future. There are now 118 people homeless in the four midlands counties. In County Offaly there are 50 people homeless, while there are 19 homeless in County Laois, which is absolutely shameful. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: Use the ESB network.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (14 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: 221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to Portarlington Garda station each year for the past ten years. [20549/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Recruitment (14 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: 279. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the recruitment of physiotherapists in counties Laois and Offaly; if there is a freeze on recruitment or a freeze on appointing those that have successfully gone through the recruitment process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20339/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: I welcome this opportunity to engage with the Minister and his officials. The revelation today that the equity investment from Granahan McCourt is a mere €175 million and the working capital, as matters move along and revenue is brought in, is €45 million will raise eyebrows not only in these Houses but among the public. I want to deal with the issue of when the company can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: There is no argument with that. I want broadband for those 540,000 households, as does every Member of the Oireachtas. We know that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: Given the rate of penetration by the existing operators in rural Ireland, with Eir and fibre for example and the other companies with a wireless signal, it is a safe bet that where one or two people have a connection at one end of a townland currently, we fill find that 30 or 40 people in that townland have it a year later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: The Minister and the taxpayer can say goodbye to their €500 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: The Government will have to compensate them in court for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: And can claim compensation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: I could argue that with ComReg.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: The Minister just said it was.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (14 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: The Minister did not address the cost-benefit analysis. It was not done on the alternatives. The officials raised a question on that. With regard to the regulated price, he referred to ComReg being the regulator. ComReg is overstretched. Can it be effective? What is its workload?

Report of Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (9 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: Sinn Féin's amendment No. 4 states:To insert the following after “29th March, 2019”:“— however, rejects the endorsement of an increase in the existing carbon tax; and — declares a climate and ecological emergency.” I welcome the opportunity to address this motion. Sinn Féin is fully committed to climate action. We recognise the reality...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: Once Granahan McCourt was left as the only bidder, the process was flawed. The Deputy, having been a Minister for a long time, understands that and he has seen commercial activity going on over the years. The Cabinet decided to go ahead with this plan this week. It made a statement that it was committed to proceeding with it. Granahan McCourt has held nearly all the cards up to now....

National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: Regarding the infrastructure being sold on, Robert Watt in his letter stated, "a decision by the private operator to abandon the project, for whatever reason, [the selling on of it or whatever] could result in a 'stranded' obsolete asset, despite Exchequer investment of ... €2.275 billion by 2026 - in an asset that we will not even own". Does that line alone in the documentation that...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: We had detailed briefing from the Minister's officials yesterday morning and we spent nearly two hours with them. They gave us some documentation. I have looked at the structure set out in that documentation. I am not an expert on company law but I have served as a chairperson of a small company and I can tell the Minister that this process and structure will not work. It cannot because...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: Where the decisions will be made, we will have only one vote out of a total of nine.

National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to address the issue. There is no doubt about whether rural broadband is needed. I represent a rural constituency and I see the urgency of it. We have been banging this drum for several years since 2012 and especially since I took over this brief three years ago. We are all in agreement in that sense. The issue is whether the taxpayer is getting value for money,...