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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicles (13 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 544. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount spent on the public network of electric charging points for electric vehicles in each of the years 2013 to 2017; and the amounts allocated for 2018 to 2021, respectively. [7215/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: I have been patiently waiting to contribute since 1.50 p.m. and I have a good number of questions. If the Chairman bears with me, I will go through them quickly. Deputy Lowry stated he did not wish to put a roadblock in the way of the process at this point. While I agree with him to some extent, sometimes when one is on a journey, it does no harm to check the map to ensure one does not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: Let us say, for example, that I have a broadband service. The download and upload speeds vary in terms of gigabits and megabits. Can the State impose a legal obligation on all the providers to maintain these speeds? Some people have a very poor service. The Minister indicated he had to allow Eir to cherry-pick. I raised that issue at the first press conference and the Minister and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: There will be rich pickings in any scheme. If one is picking fruit in a field, some fruit will be ripe and some will be unripe. Companies will naturally pick out the best parts of any scheme. As the Minister will be aware from what has happened in his home country, the companies have picked the easy to reach areas. This impairs the rest of the process and I contend that it was not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: It will be 70% at best.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: The figure is 540,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: I understand that of course it cannot be an auction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: The price is agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: What about the companies and the services that are already there?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol: Motion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for that information. This motion was passed by the Dáil on 30 January and the process is that it was to come to us. As a committee, do we have to endorse it?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol: Motion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: Is it a requirement that this happens-----

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol: Motion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: -----or is it just a courtesy that the committee-----

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol: Motion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: For us lay people, could one of the officials say where hydrofluorocarbon gases, HFCs, are typically used?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol: Motion (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: Have we found a way of recycling them?

National Broadband Plan: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after "the subsequent decision by eir to also withdraw; and" and substitute the following:" - the possibility of now progressing the NBP through State ownership, recognising that the effects of the decision to privatise the State company Telecom Éireann in the past has had a negative impact on citizens and telecommunications services, and that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 34. To ask the Minister for Health if a plan will be put in place for the renovation and extension of Abbeyleix hospital, County Laois to have it included in the capital programme for funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6203/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 36. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that the HSE honours its commitment given to local Teachtaí Dála and the hospital committee to use Abbeyleix hospital, County Laois for a step-up and step-down facility and to cater for respite patients and those in need of transitional beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6204/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the status of treatment for a person (details supplied). [6540/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments Data (8 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the names and locations of the 22 unfinished estates in County Laois which appear on his Department's 2016 UFD survey; and the number of units in each estate that are complete and vacant and near complete, respectively (details supplied). [6513/18]

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)

Brian Stanley: The privatised route for the provision of telecommunications, both with the original sale of Telecom Éireann and the completely privatised route for the national broadband plan, has not worked. There has been a long line of mistakes, false promises and false starts when it comes to broadband rollout. In 2002, Fianna Fáil when in government promised to roll out broadband on a...