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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: The Minister is being highly evasive on this issue. This time last year, he promised the Bill would be ready before the summer. The summer came and went and we did not see it. He then published a roadmap and promised the legislation, which is in the programme for Government, would be ready by Christmas. This Bill was a Fine Gael priority in opposition and is also a priority for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: I ask the Minister to answer the series of questions I asked arising from his reply to my original question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: The Minister did so in this House.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: The Minister's roadmap is in a cul-de-sac.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Proposed Legislation (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister for his reply. I am pleased he will introduce legislation relatively soon. Sinn Féin is putting him under pressure on this issue because we believe it is important. Notwithstanding that the country is in economic difficulty, as the Minister noted, this issue is affecting incomes, particularly farm incomes. Climate change is having a negative effect on their...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Regulations (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made in introducing, in line with the Programme for Government, a public service obligation which would include a fee waiver scheme in respect of low income households for waste collection services. [5414/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (5 Feb 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the recommendation made by his Department to refuse grant funding under the Sports Capital Grant 2012 for Dublin City Council's application for funding to drain four pitches in Brickfield Park, Drimnagh, Dublin 12; and if he will outline the reasons the application was deemed invalid. [5848/13]

Climate Change Bill 2013: First Stage (31 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to set a target for the year 2050 for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; to establish the Department of the Taoiseach as the co-ordinating department under the Act; to confer powers on the Taoiseach to make regulations; to provide for carbon budgets; to establish an Office of Climate Change and Renewable Energy and a...

Climate Change Bill 2013: First Stage (31 Jan 2013)

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

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (30 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a decision will be made in relation to the battlefield site on Moore Street, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4498/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Establishment of Planning Regulator: Discussion with Minister of State (29 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: That is the model for the way forward and in that regard I would make some suggestions. The first is that we would have greater notification of county development plans. Currently, they go on public display but the notification often does not reach the public. Members of the public will often come to see one as a councillor and say that he or she did not see the advertisement in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Establishment of Planning Regulator: Discussion with Minister of State (29 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the Minister of State and her officials and thank her for the presentation and documentation sent to us. They were very informative. I agree with the Chairman's comments at the outset regarding the small number of people elected to the Dáil who have been found guilty of any form of corruption during that period. Since the foundation of the State, a great number of local...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (29 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration has been given to making payment of rent supplement directly to landlords through their bank accounts. [4069/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (29 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the practice of top up, undeclared, payments which landlords are demanding of rent supplement tenants, in order that they will officially reduce the demanded rent to satisfy the community welfare officer; and the steps she will take to prevent this practice. [4068/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Prompt Payments (24 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to reduce the 62 day average payment delay culture in Ireland which is having a large negative effect on small business. [3243/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services (24 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Irish companies in receipt of exporting supports, both soft and financial. [3244/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to legislate to restore the Freedom of Information Act to what it was before it was amended by the previous Government, with particular reference to current charges for Freedom of Information requests. [3078/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider giving the Information Commissioner the power to fine and or publicly reprimand public authorities for ignoring Freedom of Information requests. [3079/13]

Education (Welfare) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: I thank Deputy O'Brien for introducing this important Bill in Private Members' time. The content of this is based on the proposed Education (Welfare)(Amendment) Bill 2012, and it is a product of long and thorough consultation with the relevant stakeholders. The purpose of the Bill is to amend the Education (Welfare) Bill 2000 in order to impose mandatory requirements on boards of management...

Order of Business (22 Jan 2013)

Brian Stanley: The Minister is president of the European Council of Environment Ministers at the moment and it is embarrassing. The effects of climate change are all around us. Entire countries are facing drought and starvation, so we must play our part. When will we see that Bill?