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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (Resumed) (18 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: What areas are included in that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (Resumed) (18 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: Does it also include north Tipperary? A great deal of haulage trade goes through this area, meaning that a large carbon footprint can be attributed to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (Resumed) (18 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: I welcome Mr. Owen Keegan and the senior officials who are appearing before the committee. The issue of the waste energy facility at Poolbeg is very important. In his opening remarks Mr. Keegan said that the meetings of the Dublin local authorities considered this matter. I suggest to him that they could not have considered it because he went in and told them what he was going to do. One...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol: Motion (11 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: On the 2020 targets, we had a lot of discussion in this committee in the summer of 2013 on carbon cliffs. I expressed concerns then that if we did not start the work on this, we would literally hit a cliff which we would then have to try to climb over, in terms of reaching our targets. I take on board the fact that the Minister has only been in office for three or four months but the...

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: There is nothing free from the Blueshirts.

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: Múinteoir

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: Where was that said?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol: Motion (11 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the Minister on his first time at this committee in his new role. I also welcome his departmental officials. As I understand it, a motion will come before the Dáil fairly soon to carry out this ratification process. We ratified the Kyoto Protocol in 2002, so it is important that we should fulfil that to the letter, including the Doha Amendment. I am concerned that we are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists (11 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the orthodontic waiting list in County Laois. [42952/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: 495. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount Irish Water will take indirectly from household charges in 2015, net of all allowances and social welfare assistance. [42868/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Charges Yield (11 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: 508. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount received through commercial water rates in 2013. [43101/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Charges Yield (11 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: 509. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the percentage of billed commercial water rates collected in 2013. [43102/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (11 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: 512. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the billing of tenants, including students, for water charges and the fact that some landlords have raised rents and informed tenants that the reason they are doing so is because of water charges. [43130/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (11 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: 526. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he will provide reassurances regarding the price and affordability of water in the context of the EU polluter-pays principle directive, which demands full cost recovery exclusively via water rates and certain levies where applicable. [43211/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: 530. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reassurances he will provide the not-for-profit group water sector that their current Government subventions will not be abolished under EU State aid regulations. [43224/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision (11 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: 531. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the energy regulator will have any role in the regulation of not-for-profit group water schemes, that is, schemes that are connected to private water sources as opposed to water sources owned by Irish Water. [43225/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision (11 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: 532. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the design, build and operate contracts for 13 group water schemes have collapsed in County Mayo; and in view of this and the fact that there is compelling evidence that DBO contracts do not offer value for money, the reason his Department are still imposing this...

Report of Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Motion (7 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: The recent Seanad referendum showed that people could be confused very easily by the way in which ballot papers were presented. The survey showed that 13% of those who had voted "Yes" to abolish the Seanad had thought they were voting to retain it. A total of 6% of those who had voted "No" said they wanted to abolish it. One could argue flippantly that such errors were balanced out, but...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (6 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: 180. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will have hip replacement surgery as their mobility is very restricted and they are in severe pain. [42598/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (6 Nov 2014)

Brian Stanley: 224. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of revenue that Irish Water will collect next year net of all allowances. [42523/14]