Results 17,061-17,080 of 20,156 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: That is the flaw in the scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: I thank the panel for their presentations, including their views on some of the matters that have been taxing us recently. I note that there is broad agreement among the three panellists on the need for a commission to be established. It is certainly a view that I would share. As regards Dr. Weeks's statement on proportional representation, is he suggesting that constituencies should...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: That is a question that is often asked in relation to the single transferable vote and I have heard it explained a few times. If one has two candidates, one of whom has been eliminated and whose transfers are being distributed, what happens at that point? I have never been able to wrap my head around it. What bundle of votes is picked?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: Sure, the whole lot will be in proportion.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: 457. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly will be provided with home help. [26222/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Natural Heritage Areas Designation (30 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: 708. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason for the delay in delisting bogs that were designated national heritage areas (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26169/15]
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: We will be taking them down that route next week.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: The Minister has used his powers to override the wishes of the democratically elected councils-----
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: I will speak through the Chair. I refer to a recent example which impacted on my own county when a vote by Westmeath County Council regarding the conditions for the building of a massive wind farm was over-ruled by the then Minister of State, Deputy Jan O’Sullivan. She was able to do so under the critical infrastructure legislation which allows An Bord Pleanála and the Minister...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: However, there is an opportunity to give back some power to councillors as this was provided for in the Act passed last year. I would welcome a debate on it issue to see how this can be achieved. In general, Sinn Féin supports it. I am also interested to know what might give grounds for the need for the Minister to intervene in the case of proposed events. I presume that the proposer...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: -----to address a number of issues in the planning area. We have concerns about giving such powers to Ministers because we have seen the way they can abuse them. In general we recognise the need to update the legislation which we hope will move to Committee Stage.
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: We are all aware of the controversy that arose last year in relation to the Garth Brooks concert which ran into difficulties with local residents in Croke Park. That led to Dublin City Council imposing conditions limiting the number of concerts, among other things, with which the promoters of the event were dissatisfied, and it was cancelled. While I am not dismissing the concerns of the...
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: This is important because there is no opportunity-----
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: We were landed with this yesterday evening. The Government stitched in a water Bill and a waste management Bill into a very small Bill-----
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: -----dealing with Killarney National Park and dog breeding. It is a real cute hoor stroke.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: The Minister stitched two Bills on waste management and on water, which he promised to bring forward during this term of the Dáil but he failed to do that.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: I and other Opposition spokespersons have been asking him about that. It is a real abuse of Dáil power.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: It is abuse by the Government of this House. What it has done is an abuse of the electorate.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: What happened to the democratic revolution? The Government promised a democratic revolution.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jun 2015)
Brian Stanley: The Government promised to do things a new way but it has failed to do that. It has landed the Opposition with this-----