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Written Answers — Energy Efficiency: Energy Efficiency (1 Dec 2011)

Brian Stanley: Question 119: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if Dublin City Council has applied for funding for 2012 under the retrofit programme to bring residential stock in Dublin city up to an average BER rating of C1; if he will ensure funding will be made available to the city council if any such application is made. [38138/11]

Written Answers — Local Government Reform: Local Government Reform (30 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: Question 122: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when Dáil Éireann may expect to see local government reform proposals including the devolving of control of transport, traffic, economic development, education, responses to crime and local health care needs to local communities. [37873/11]

Written Answers — Building Regulations: Building Regulations (30 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: Question 25: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to meet with the former residents of Priory Hall, Dublin. [37750/11]

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: From my party's point of view, there are a number of issues to be clarified. Before lunch, we were discussing the issue of the fee. The Minister stated that the fee for reinspection would not be €200, but the Bill, at section 70H(7), states that the prescribed fee will not exceed €200. In my experience, that normally means it will be €200. In its election manifesto, Fine Gael stated...

Building Regulations (30 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the reply from the Minister and the information that moves are being made. Improvements in the inspection regime are long overdue, particularly given the amount of apartment blocks that have been built in recent years. There is no single building inspectorate service. It is vital that the service includes fire safety, which is important for people living in apartments,...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: I wish to share time with Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Pearse Doherty.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: I have seen few issues in my years as a political activist that stimulated such debate and passion as this ill-thought out Bill. Meetings with hundreds of people in attendance have been organised to discuss what has become known as the septic tank Bill. People's responses have varied from outright rejection of the Government's proposals to genuine confusion and frustration. The response of...

Building Regulations (30 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: Question 2: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government with whom the responsibility lies for the enforcement of building control standards in the situation in which the developer, having completed the development, has clearly not been in compliance; and if he will outline the way this process should operate. [37872/11]

Building Regulations (30 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: This is a huge emerging problem across the State, with buildings and developments clearly not in compliance with building control standards. With regard to compliance, it is accepted that developers, their agents and architects are responsible for compliance. They must sign off on, and stand over, compliance with building control standards. The problem arises where it is clear that the...

Building Regulations (30 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: Can I take it from the Minister that where the inspection regime and compliance have failed, the function of enforcement rests with the local authority? The evacuees from Priory Hall have repeatedly sought a meeting with the Minister. I believe it is a reasonable request, without prejudice to any outcome. Will the Minister finally agree to meet them in the context of the review of the...

Building Regulations (30 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: I am disappointed in regard to Priory Hall but I hope the Minister's Department is doing everything possible to try to bring about a resolution to that problem. In terms of where the inspections have fallen down, in most cases local authorities had a part-time person employed to carry out a building control function. Most of them had other jobs as well. It is basically a 19 and a half hours...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: Question 353: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if measuring the sound levels at a location (details supplied) in County Kilkenny is the responsibility of the local authority or of the Irish Aviation Authority; and if planning permission was granted for skydives to be run seven days a week between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. at this location. [37090/11]

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (29 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: When we come through the hallway at the entrance to Leinster House every day, we pass an original copy of the 1916 Proclamation hanging on the wall. It states Ireland will cherish "all of the children of the nation equally". We have come to the Chamber this evening, 95 years on, to defend universal child benefit. That an attempt is seemingly being made to diminish it shows how little...

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (29 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: The Minister's party recently renewed the same guarantee.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (29 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: They have a free health service and school transport.

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (29 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy should direct his comments to Fine Gael's sister party, the SDLP, in the North. Mr. Alex Attwood, MLA, of the SDLP is the former Minister for Social Development in the North.

Special Areas of Conservation (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht the procedure for lifting the designation of Knockacollier bog as a special area of conservation; if he will consider pursuing this action in view of the fact that there is a neighbouring bog, Coolrain bog, already designated as an SAC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36572/11]

Special Areas of Conservation (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: If the Minister had been going home before the new motorway was built, he would have passed by Pike of Rushall between Mountrath and Borris-in-Ossory. On each side there is a small bog, namely, Knockacollier bog, the larger of the two, and Coolrain bog, the smaller of the two. The problem is that they have been designated as special areas of conservation. Locals would be happy if the...

Special Areas of Conservation (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister. We are anxious to solve the problem.

Written Answers — Foras na Gaeilge: Foras na Gaeilge (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Stanley: Question 17: To ask the Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an raibh aon phlé ag an Aire leis an gComhairle Aireachta Thuaidh-Theas nó le Foras na Gaeilge roimh chinneadh a dhéanamh bac a chur ar an dara céim de dhílárú Fhoras na Gaeilge go Gaoth Dobhair, Contae Dhún na Gall. [36568/11]