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Criminal Law (Prohibition of the Disclosure of Counselling Records) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome our guests in the Gallery. I know that some of them have spoken out publicly about this. Sometimes, that is not very easy to do. I welcome the fact that they are here. Hopefully, with their support and that of others we can get legislation in place. I hope it is this Bill. I hope we do not have to wait for 12 months or two years or any longer, because this is overdue. I thank...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Corps (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 20. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is aware that it has been reported that the Air Corps is to end 24-hour operations and reduce its service to an 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., five-day week from June 2025, as a crisis in air traffic control has reached a critical point; and if he will ensure that this will not be the case and that operations will be remaining in place 24-7 yearly....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a timeline for construction to begin on a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31317/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will sanction the provision of a minibus to provide transport under the school transport scheme, to convey primary students from the Portlaoise area to where there is a shortage of transport to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31318/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (12 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if cases in which bus operators are being told by the RSA (driver testing section) that they cannot book a test for D1 or D Category at present as category B tests are being prioritised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31556/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 381. To ask the Minister for Health when safeguarding regulation for nursing homes will be put in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31244/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (11 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 382. To ask the Minister for Health the reason HIQA do not have a direct complaints service line for families of older people in nursing homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31245/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 383. To ask the Minister for Health how the situation arose where the nursing home in Portlaoise owned by a provider (details supplied) was in breach of a restriction on admissions imposed by HIQA that came into effect on 22 April 2025 continued to take in residents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31246/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: 384. To ask the Minister for Health the expected time it will take for the review into all nursing homes owned by a company (details supplied); the person or body that will be doing that review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31247/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: This matter relates to nursing homes and the lack of enforcement of standards. Last week, we witnessed shocking scenes in the Residence nursing home in Portlaoise and the Beneavin nursing home in Dublin. I am sure the Minister of State is aware that there are other cases as well. We saw was: a shocking level of neglect; abusive behaviour; residents told to soil on incontinence pads;...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Minister of State. I would like an explanation for a whistleblower having, after two years of inaction on the part of the chief inspector and HIQA, to go to the media to highlight all of this. Surely that is a scandalous situation. They say you judge a society by how it treats its weakest. The weakest are the elderly and the very young - infant children. The Minister of State...

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: Having vacant homes in the middle of a housing crisis is a scandal, particularly when they are local authority houses. There are more than 2,700 vacant at the moment. A third have been vacant for more than a year. This is simply not on. Reletting times average more than eight months and are much more in many cases. The cost of preparing a home for reletting has increased in five years by...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: There are a lot of things I could say about housing, but because of the announcement from Government I feel compelled to comment on the new rent proposals. The new restrictions, such as they are, or rather the changes, will mean there are no controls for new builds and no controls for new tenancies when tenants change. This is going to drive up already sky-high rents. This is really going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: Would it specifically take account of energy rating and property size? I ask Ms King to respond briefly because I have very little time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: That is all I need to know on that. This is my last question on reference rents. Is there a limit? Would increases be linked to inflation each year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: That is one form of top-up. There are other forms of top-up that do not show in rent agreements. It is quite common.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: Many of these are registered, but there is a side element to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: Would that require a better resourced RTB?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: Again, I will ask Ms King my initial questions. Will these measures work? Will they be inflationary? The fact that tenancies are changing from one tenancy to the next-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Brian Stanley: I would have thought that Ms King would have been the right person.