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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Budget Process (18 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: 27. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the commitment the Government have given to increase defence spending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37866/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: 300. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider allowing those on primary social welfare payments, such as disability allowance, to receive half rate payments on bereaved partners pension, or vice versa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49498/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Company Closures (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. If 145 people are employed in IDA-backed companies in Laois, that is actually a decline of nine from the last figures. It is very disappointing. As question has to be asked about why Laois is being ignored time and again. I know everybody will back his or her own corner but I think if one looks at the map of the 26 counties and at the number of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Company Closures (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I raise this important issue because 132 workers at Leprino Foods in Portlaoise received the news on 18 and 19 August that the plant will close and will be wound down over this year and next year. This is an important facility. When it opened there were great hopes and I certainly had great hope because at last we had a large, substantial manufacturing plant in the constituency. The record...

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: In the short time I have, I want to raise the issue of special school places in County Laois. The Saplings school in Graiguecullen had to move out of the building it was in. It is now located in the village of Killeshin in prefabs. The construction work started on a new school in March 2023, However, after ground works were carried out and the walls were built on the greenfield site at...

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important issue. The State has ratified the UNCRPD and the Government now has a strategy. I welcome all of that but let us see how we are doing on it. The diagnosis of autism has increased. That is obviously because there are more diagnoses being done. That is good, but it is too slow. There is a 16-month waiting list for a lot of families....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: Will he halt his plans and do something to save tenants from March? People leave tenancies for different reasons and-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: -----when properties become vacant, they are faced with a free-for-all. The Government's 2% rent increase cap is irrelevant. It is on paper. Landlords will completely ignore. They can because the legislation says they can ignore it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: That is what the Government's legislation says.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: The Government left us with a free-for-all.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: Yes, but we-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: Will the Government ramp up the supply of cost rental and affordable housing to purchase?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: The concern I have is what is going to happen in towns like Mountmellick, Abbeyleix, Mountrath and Portlaoise. In terms of increasing supply, the Taoiseach was in government in 2004, 2005 and 2006 when supply increased. In fact, 96,000 housing units were built in 2006. He will recall in those years that rents skyrocketed. There is not necessarily a correlation with increasing the supply...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: I join in welcoming Deputy Holly Cairns back to the Dáil and congratulating her. I also congratulate Deputy Emer Higgins. Life will never be the same again. I wish many years of happiness and joy to them and their partners in the years to come. I raise the situation regarding renters with the Taoiseach and the out of control so-called "rental market" we have. In a lot of areas...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Just Transition (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: 151. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding provided to projects and initiatives in County Laois from the National and European Just Transition Funds, by recipient’s, the amount granted to each, the purposes for which is to be used, to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49076/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Artists' Remuneration (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: 606. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the research programme undertaken by his Department in relation to basic income for the arts; the cost-benefit analysis that is being prepared; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48287/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Artists' Remuneration (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: 607. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has developed a successor scheme to the pilot basic income for the arts scheme; if so, if this will be brought forward as part of Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48288/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Artists' Remuneration (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: 608. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment If he will consider extending the current basic income for the arts scheme long-term and open it up to new applicants if no successor scheme is implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48289/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Industrial Disputes (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: 725. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports being made available to school workers who are directly affected by the current strikes that is, bus escorts, who will not be in receipt of payment for the duration of the ongoing strikes by school secretaries and caretakers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47786/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Industrial Disputes (17 Sep 2025)

Brian Stanley: 726. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will be extending the current educational sector worker applications for all those affected until the strike issues are resolved regarding school secretaries and caretakers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47787/25]