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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 206. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for surgery. [7882/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: I am sorry, it was passed by a majority. I will clarify that.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the future of the national broadband plan in view of the fact there is only one bidder in the procurement process; and if there is a strategy in place to progress the national broadband plan if the procurement process fails. [7532/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: The one bidder left in the procurement process has a lot of power in its hands, and 542,000 homes will be at the whim of that company, with no competition and very little leverage in the Department's hands. As we are in this very uncertain position, what options has the Minister considered and if the current process collapses, what is plan B?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: The problem with the Minister's position is that he is basing it on the hope that the Enet procurement process will not collapse. The Department and the Government must have a plan B but the Minister has not outlined such a plan. He said options are being considered, but that is within the current tendering process with just Enet involved. Some of the seeds of this disaster were sown when...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: The final one is the most important.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: You are the Minister.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for that reply. I did not see that Sunday Independentarticle because I do not buy it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: I would appreciate that.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan Implementation (14 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: I have no problem reading a copy of it but I refuse to buy the Sunday Independent. On the question of State ownership, the Minister said it was considered. I would be interested to know the reasons that was turned down because an ESB-type semi-State structure could have drawn together the MANS and the extensive back-haul systems that are being rolled out across the State, along with the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Alternative Energy Projects (14 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the potential implications for developing a biomass industry here to sustain current and future power plants in view of the planned investment by Bord na Móna in a biomass facility in the United States of America. [7401/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (14 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to use his powers under the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 to issue a policy direction to the Commission for Energy Regulation in regard to competition in the electricity supply market in view of domestic electricity prices. [7402/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (14 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to establish a biogas industry as an indigenous source of energy and an alternative to fossil fuels. [7400/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Nuclear Waste (14 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on reports from Britain that the disposal of nuclear waste is being proposed on the island of Ireland; and his further views on this possible measure. [7404/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Alternative Energy Projects (14 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 233. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of a pilot project for a rooftop solar support scheme; the timeframe for its introduction; the amount of grant aid to be provided; if there is a limit on the number of applicants; his plans to extend this scheme to other microgeneration technologies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7688/18]

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: A basic for rural Ireland should be a proper transport infrastructure but instead people travel daily on substandard and often dangerous roads. We need an effective public transport network. Without public transport, people must travel on roads that, owing, in part, to the collapse in the economy but also years of cutbacks to grant payments, have not been maintained in a proper state of...

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: The Government needs to start taking the needs of rural Ireland seriously.

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: Given the bad state of the roads in County Laois following the recent bad weather, I ask that the Minister consider a further allocation for the county.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Action Programme Implementation (13 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 43. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding Ireland obtaining an extension to the derogation on the spreading of pig slurry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7017/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alternative Energy Projects (13 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 90. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to create a viable biogas industry here that would utilise farm and animal waste as the main source of raw material for its production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7018/18]