Results 16,201-16,220 of 20,454 for speaker:Brian Stanley

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Pollution (16 Jan 2018)

Brian Stanley: 1339. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to increase air monitors in Rialto, Dublin 8, in view of the environmental pollution as a result of the construction of the national children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2004/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test Waiting Lists (16 Jan 2018)

Brian Stanley: 1430. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the length of the waiting times for driving tests in County Laois; and the steps being taken by the RSA to shorten these times. [1336/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test Waiting Lists (16 Jan 2018)

Brian Stanley: 1432. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reduce the waiting time for driving tests in County Laois; and the waiting times for tests at all centres throughout the State, in tabular form. [1395/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (16 Jan 2018)

Brian Stanley: 1652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average length of time it takes social welfare inspectors to process cases in each county or district, in tabular form. [1488/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (16 Jan 2018)

Brian Stanley: 1696. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning permissions accepted or granted for waste recycling facilities without an environmental impact statement between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2017 in counties Mayo, Galway and Roscommon. [1533/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (16 Jan 2018)

Brian Stanley: 1756. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the locations and numbers of the social housing units delivered by NAMA in 2017 (details supplied). [1144/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Occupational Therapy (16 Jan 2018)

Brian Stanley: 1770. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the person or body that provides the occupational therapist's report for elderly and disabled persons in cases in which they require them for housing grants. [1390/18]

Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: First Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the growth of electricity production from micro generators through a supplier obligation to provide a tariff for electricity exported to the grid. We are staying with the issue of power and electricity following on from Deputy Ó Snodaigh's tie. The Bill I am introducing is about making the transition from...

Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: First Stage (14 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (14 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: 19. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding for the flood relief works that are needed in Mountmellick and Portarlington, County Laois will be committed to once a final plan is presented by Laois County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53248/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (14 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: 25. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount available over the next two years for flood relief works; if he will assign a sufficient amount for capital works in the Mountmellick and Portarlington areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53249/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (14 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for new accommodation by a school (details supplied). [53510/17]

Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. Simply put, the Bill puts forward a number of important provisions, particularly the one that political advertisements would indicate who paid for them. The intent and basic principle of the Bill in regard to transparency is a welcome step forward. However, the scope is beyond the political party, the politician and the political process and...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: She is going to have to deal with three county councils - Kildare County Council; Laois County Council and Offaly County Council. She will need to attend three Oireachtas Members' meetings between the local authority managers and directors of services. She will have to deal with three different administrative staff and three different electoral areas. God help her because that is going to...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: The constituency I represent will be changed again as a consequence of the commission's report. I support the proposal by my colleague, Deputy Ó Broin, that we should consider establishing a permanent electoral commission or office to deal with matters concerning the organisation of elections and the changes in constituency boundaries. Colleagues will have noticed that a map drawn...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: The people of Derry sought to change the name of their city a long time ago. I ask the Minister of State and his officials to bring this error to the attention of Ordnance Survey Ireland and to advise that we should no longer slavishly use that type of colonial language. The commission's report is advisory, it being thereafter a matter for the Oireachtas to settle these matters, in...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Eligibility (12 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: 559. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will review the scheme of compensation for turf cutters to include the owners of turf banks who may not have cut turf for over ten years due to personal conditions such as health conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53054/17]

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: I wish to share time with Deputy Tóibín.

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: It is a major disappointment to be here discussing the progress on reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. In the Thirty-first Dáil, I was a member of an environment committee that passed legislation in good faith. On behalf of Sinn Féin, we highlighted the shortcomings in that legislation but put our faith in it on the basis that the Government might do better. We felt it was...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: The annual transition statement is supposed to be delivered to the House and we are due to discuss it, although I do not want to pin everything that is wrong on the Minister. When we put through the legislation in the last Dáil, and I was present for that, we put it through in good faith. We put a lot of faith in the fact we would have an annual transition statement and that this would...