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Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: If the Government does that to the Irish Water, there will be the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, the EPA, the river basin management committees and local authorities. The Taoiseach will be aware that that will be a bureaucratic nightmare stretching the whole way from the Customs House to Belmullet.

Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: It is on forthcoming legislation. Will Irish Water have a role in overseeing,-----

Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: -----as the Minister stated, according to the Irish Farmers' Journal, in the implementation-----

Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: -----of standards of septic tanks-----

Order of Business (14 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: -----because that would involve five separate bodies?

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 27: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to increase financial support for start-up farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7068/12]

Written Answers — Credit Availability: Credit Availability (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to use his office to impress on the Department of Finance the need to ensure the bank credit facilities are made readily available to young farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7067/12]

Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: I would like to ask the Minister about promised legislation on distressed mortgages. I have asked the question before of the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister during Question Time, and I am still no further on with it. Four out of ten local authority loans are in serious distress of more than 90 days or more. I know that from an answer I received to a parliamentary question.

Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: It is on promised legislation. Just bear with me because I have tried this a number of times over the past six months and I have not got a straight answer. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government is present so I hope we can get a straight answer. Four out of ten local authority loans are in serious distress of 90 days or more, which is more than four to five times...

Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: The Government has the Keane report before it, as well as the personal insolvency Bill. Will the Minister include measures in the personal insolvency Bill to deal with this issue of distressed local authority loans? I ask for a straight answer. Will the Government honour the election promises by both parties to the people that they would deal with the issue of distressed loans?

Order of Business (9 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: I asked about local authority loans.

Private Members' Business: Community Employment Schemes: Motion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: A lone parent with three children was better off under the previous Fianna Fáil Government than under a Labour Party Minister. Lone parents were better off to the tune of €207 per week under Fianna Fáil and the Minister cannot spin or review her way out of that. Labour is making lone parents poorer. This is at a time when the Government has paid the former Anglo Irish Bank, a zombie...

Private Members' Business: Community Employment Schemes: Motion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to reply to the debate on this very important issue which goes to the heart of our communities. I welcome and extend a céad míle fáilte to the many CE participants, from various parts of Dublin and beyond, who are in the Visitors' Gallery and who have been present during various stages of the debate. Those to whom I refer attended the solidarity protest which...

Private Members' Business: Community Employment Schemes: Motion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: That is good.

Private Members' Business: Community Employment Schemes: Motion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: Now that I have the ear of two Ministers and in view of the fact that another Labour Deputy has just entered the Chamber, I will make my concluding remarks. One of the more vulnerable groups that has borne the brunt of the Minister's cuts comprises those in receipt of lone parent's allowance. They are obliged to struggle to keep their families together and during her short reign, the...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (7 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will bring forward the date of publication of the inspection of places of detention Bill. [6527/12]

Written Answers — Prisoner Complaints Procedures: Prisoner Complaints Procedures (7 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will introduce an independent complaints mechanism for prisoners here. [6528/12]

Local Government Reform (2 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 163: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government when Dáil Éireann can expect to see local Government reform proposals including devolving control on transport, traffic, economic development, education, responses to crime and local health care needs to local communities. [6021/12]

Local Government Reform (2 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: Question 164: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the progress made in the Programme for Government's commitment to abolish the position of County Manager. [6022/12]

Local Government Reform (2 Feb 2012)

Brian Stanley: As it is her first time to take questions since being appointed, I congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, on her appointment and wish her well.