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Covid-19 (Communications, Climate Action and Environment): Statements (27 May 2020)

Brian Stanley: ...transition in the midlands from brown to green energy was supposed to take place over ten years, but due to the failure to deal with it by successive Governments, workers and communities in the midlands now have ten months. We are where we are. For years Sinn Féin has called for the midlands to become the heart of renewable energy. I echo the welcome for some of the plans put...

Early Exit from Peat for Electricity Generation: Statements (6 Nov 2019)

Brian Stanley: ...it becomes a dynamic economic area. It has been one in the past. Bord na Móna regenerated Offaly, as did the ESB and other industries. That can be done again as part of the move from brown to green. We are late starters, however, and we are where we are. We need to ramp this up now. We need investment in alternative employment and in training and upskilling. That is why I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Grant Aid to Rural Towns and Villages: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Brian Stanley: ...was a town council. Granted, the town council did not have enough power and there were other problems. One could say that the abolition of the rates system in 1977 destroyed local government, but we are where we are. A lot of these questions can be answered through the reinstitution of strong local government. When the legislation passed in 2014, a door was still open to the then...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2018: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (2 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...be in a completely different place. We need to be in that place but we are not there. Many right-wing commentators even starting to say it is where we should be, and that we should use infrastructure controlled by the State. However, we are where we are. I have believed for a long time that we are in serious trouble. I want jobs to be created in rural areas. I represent a rural...

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...new Joint Committee on Climate Action, which will seek to sort out the nuts and bolts of getting through a large amount of work in a three month period and play catch-up. It is an absolute disgrace that we are where we are, facing a huge carbon cliff that I have warned this House about several times over the past four, five, six or seven years. I warned the EU Commissioner for...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2017)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Pringle's point was well made. In 2010, when the amalgamation of the eight separate boards took place, this matter was not noticed. We are where we are and the Minister of State has given an explanation. The important thing is that the legislation moves on. The existing gap is not in anyone's interest, be they angling clubs, tourism interests or environmentalists. It is not in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Postal Services (21 Mar 2017)

Brian Stanley: ...been hearing talk about what should be done to broaden the number of services for years. Previous Governments of all hues have not acted decisively. We would not be where we are now if they had. We are where we are and we need to move on from that. When are services for motor tax, business rates, Government services and banking opportunities going to be rolled out? The Kerr report...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (18 Oct 2016)

Brian Stanley: ...power in 2011 but, by any objective analysis, it inherited an almighty mess that had been allowed to build over a period of 12 or 13 years by previous Governments. Let us not go back over that again. We are where we are and we must try to pull the situation together. More than four years ago, we discussed Articles 6(3) and 6(4) of the habitats directive with the Commission and raised...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: ...'s amendment. While it is not the one that I would favour as my first choice, as I stated, I would favour a constitutional amendment to put the decision into the hands of the people. Recognising that we are where we are, it is a step in the right direction to insert the phrase "of not fewer than two thirds of the Members" to ensure that Irish Water cannot not be sold off without the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Brian Stanley: ...us today. Like Deputy Cowen, I have been drawing a blank with my questions on this major project during the past two years. I do not agree with the political decision to set it up but, nevertheless, we are where we are. On the recruitment process for outside consultants, was the Minister, Deputy Hogan, or the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, informed of the scale of the outside help...