Results 21-40 of 65 for 5 million speaker:Brian Stanley

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

Brian Stanley: ...not been able to cut one sod of turf. Thousands of households throughout the midlands, from Laois and Offaly up to Roscommon, depend on this as a source of fuel for the winter. They do not have €50,000 or €60,000 at this point for a deep retrofit and heat pumps. An Bord Pleanála sat on the permission for Bord na Móna to apply for substitute consent for months....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Power Plant Closures (12 Nov 2019)

Brian Stanley: ...Móna and the communities they come from have had no just transition. I want the Minister, Deputy Bruton, to take note that County Laois must be included in the just transition framework. The €6 million provided by Government and the €5 million provided by the ESB while welcome, is inadequate. It is a drop in the ocean. It will not even create a ripple in terms of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Health Services Provision (24 Oct 2019)

Brian Stanley: .... It has to seek funding from the HSE every month to keep going. The organisation is pleading for money to stay afloat. That is not good enough. ABI Ireland requires further core funding of €1.5 million per annum to maintain its services and meet growing demand. The population is expanding, which places increased demand on ABI Ireland because the number of strokes and accidents...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: Overall, if the project works out as it is currently designed, we are looking at a subsidy of €2.95 billion and, as we were told recently, an overall cost of approximately €5 billion. The witnesses have said PwC used various methods to examine the various areas that would benefit, such as education and health. There are many assumptions because people are looking forward and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: I have just two other questions because I do not want to delay the meeting. In the past couple of weeks, I have been told the cost is now in the region of €5 billion. Dr. Yardley confirmed what I have been told I was wrong about for the past two years and three months, namely, that the hiving off in respect of the 300,000 easiest-to-reach households has materially affected the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)

Brian Stanley: I have only three questions. On 5 May 2019, when the Minister appeared before the committee, he stated: The price it can charge to operators is fixed. In the case of a residential home it is set at €30 per month per subscriber. This is an entirely regulated business. Will ComReg confirm the role it played in the decision to charge €30 per month? What is that based on?...

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)

Brian Stanley: .... Successive Governments have had little vision or direction for renewable energy. We now face the moment of truth. We need to reduce our dependence on imported fossil fuels, which cost almost €5 billion per annum. We need to change not only for sake of the environment or to be self-sufficient but also because we face fines as a result of our miserable failure to meet our...

Climate Change: Statements (6 Dec 2018)

Brian Stanley: .... Figures were released this week from the United Nations Climate Action Conference that show exactly the catastrophic nature of what we are facing. The Minister admitted that we are falling 95% short of our emission reduction targets. It is shocking that we are failing to meet all our targets to address climate change. While I welcome the slight decrease in carbon emissions this...

Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...considerable reliance on oil for heating and fossil fuels, which are key factors. We need to give householders alternatives through renewable energy. As a State and as taxpayers, we face hundreds of millions of euro worth of fines in 2020 and beyond because we have not reduced our greenhouse gas emissions or grown our renewable energy portfolio sufficiently because of the inaction of...

Prevention of Single-Use Plastic Waste: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...and a whole lot of other things. The figures in terms of plastic pollution are immense and horrific and cannot be overstated. They have been outlined here tonight in great detail. It is estimated that 2% to 5% of all plastic produced finishes up in the seas and oceans. A study released by the National University of Ireland, Galway, last year found that 70% of deep sea fish sampled...

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Brian Stanley: ..., contradiction or concealment. They must be about clarity and facts. Leo's good news department was not created for clarity and truth but for confusion. We now have this unit at a cost of €5 million to the taxpayer which is basically being used as a Fine Gael propaganda machine to hoodwink taxpayers using their own money. This unit is about filtering the Taoiseach's party's...

Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Dec 2017)

Brian Stanley: ...of using a bot and multiple accounts. The word "bot" is new to the English language. The Bill would create a new offence of operating a bot for political purposes, defining a bot as a user with 25 or more individual accounts or profiles online, operated by a single user but masquerading as a range of individuals with separate accounts. We have to examine the overall scope and intent...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2017)

Brian Stanley: ...greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. The Minister confirmed last week when I raised this matter in committee that in 2020 Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions would be between 4% and 6% lower than their 2005 level. The European Commission has stipulated that Ireland must achieve a 20% reduction in emissions by 2020, which means our actions will only deliver 25% of the target. Climate change...

Minerals Development Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (6 Jul 2017)

Brian Stanley: I move amendment No. 8:In page 49, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following:"(2) These regulations shall be reviewed every 5 years.". Amendment No. 8 deals with mining licence fees and proposes that the Minister would review them every five years. There is no mechanism under the legislation whereby fees can take account of market changes. For them not to be bound by that would be a...

Minerals Development Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (6 Jul 2017)

Brian Stanley: ...arising from the mining practice. This amendment seeks to place an obligation on the Minister to specifically ensure there is compliance in terms of environmental issues. Amendment No. 5 proposes that the Minister shall report and review these environmental practices and directives every five years. Again, we are seeking a regular reporting mechanism under this Act to ensure...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (8 Dec 2016)

Brian Stanley: ...and environmental catastrophe and financial bills. The potential consequences for Ireland not meeting its targets could be severe. It has been estimated that Ireland could be hit with a bill of up to €610 million for breaching our 2020 renewable energy and emissions targets. We are already expected to miss our targets to reduce carbon emissions by 20%. As I stated, emissions in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Expenditure (13 Oct 2016)

Brian Stanley: ...the status of the review of the school transport scheme; and if his Department will consider increasing funding to the scheme in line with the recommendation of a charity (details supplied) of €5 million resulting in the abolition of fees for parents. [30152/16]

Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: ...in terms of what it could do in this area owing to the appalling state of the country's finances at the time it came into office, which it inherited from the previous Administration, it is now 2015 and we need to move on from that. I would like to address the myth that there is a bias in regard to social housing. The budget of Laois County Council was recently agreed. Rental income...

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2015)

Brian Stanley: ...of problems, the main one being that there is only one temporary consultant and some out-of-hours cover by a visiting consultant. There is no emergency department on call outside of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. That is not acceptable and we know the damage it is causing to the viability of the unit. We also have a shortage of nursing staff in the unit, which needs to be improved. There are only 39...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Brian Stanley: ..., our children, grandchildren and the developed world, to take action. Unfortunately, Ireland's five-year action plan on climate change expired in 2012 and we are now in the year of our Lord 2015. The legislation is weak, flakey and very much Fine Gael and Phil Hogan's Bill. It is a disappointment. It is not impractical to suggest that this State will address the fact that Ireland...