Results 41-60 of 78 for cork speaker:Brian Stanley

Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Brian Stanley: ..., Westmeath and Longford. The figures we received from the Department did not specify the number of homeless children in the four counties. The problem of homelessness is not confined to Dublin and Cork or the major cities. In the midlands and rural areas there is a significant problem with homelessness. I have read the programme for Government. When will the Government honour its...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Brian Stanley: I raise the same issue in relation to page 23 of the programme for Government. Homelessness is not just a city issue relating to Dublin and Cork. I note the figures released yesterday for the midlands. It shows that in a one-week period in February there were 85 adults. There are no figures for the numbers of children. It was mentioned there were 60 dependants. This Rebuilding Ireland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Brian Stanley: ...is at the table. I welcome the increase of €8 million in the profit made on the parcel service business. There are four mail centres in the State, at Portlaoise, Athlone, Dublin and Cork, which are important pillars of the post office network. In Portlaoise there is a new parcel centre beside the mail centre which provides a very good service. It looks like funding will come...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (22 Nov 2017)

Brian Stanley: ...be gone. According to The Sunday Business Postleak - these leaks are deliberate - 12 hospitals, including Portlaoise, will stop taking trauma patients and major trauma centres will be created in Cork and Dublin. What absolute insanity. Does neither the Government nor the Health Service Executive understand the need for a regional network of emergency units staffed and equipped to a...

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Nov 2017)

Brian Stanley: ...credit unions, the Sparkasse model of banking in Germany, motor tax and establishing hubs. The idea is to bring business to the post office network. There are mail centres in Portlaoise, Athlone, Cork and Dublin, staff in at least two of which are questioning their future. In excess of 200 workers are employed in the mail centre in Portlaoise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations: Discussion (17 Oct 2017)

Brian Stanley: ...men and women in the white vans on both sides of the Border will have field day with this. The Border counties have been mentioned. Tyres from the North are often found as far south as Kerry and Cork. That is the reality. Ireland is a small island, it being a little over 300 miles in length. How this is to be done has not been explained. In regard to previous discussions on the...

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

Brian Stanley: ...25% of the target. Climate change is a major issue and missing our targets will affect everybody, whether one is on the right or left or in the centre or whether one is living in Dublin, Connemara, Cork or Belfast. Direct measures must be taken. As I spelled out previously, when climate action legislation was before the House Sinn Féin pressed hard for the inclusion of binding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid Development Strategy 2017 and Proposed Celtic Interconnector: EirGrid (9 May 2017)

Brian Stanley: ...be 50:50 in the sense that both countries will provide the same amount? On the diagram provided, it looks like the Celtic interconnector will extend into Ireland through the middle of Cork city. My understanding is that it is more likely that the site will be between Carne and New Ross in County Wexford. Will Mr. Slye clarify the matter? Of the four scenarios provided of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Brexit Issues (9 May 2017)

Brian Stanley: ...stated that there are facilities being refurbished in Wexford and at Poolbeg. Are those belonging to private companies? Who is funding their refurbishment? There was a State oil facility off Cork but it is in the hands of the private sector at present. The Minister might outline the situation with those facilities. Given the constant volatile situation in the Middle East and in the...

Topical Issue Debate: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme (2 May 2017)

Brian Stanley: ...far side of Ballycolla that experiences flooding on a regular basis. This area is surrounded by land that is as good as anything in the Golden Vale. The Minister is familiar with the Golden Vale as a County Cork man. There is land in south Laois as good as that, but there are pockets within that, such as the area around Woodenbridge on the far side of Ballycolla, where farmers...

Insurance Costs: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Brian Stanley: ...matter is corrected before he leaves office. A recent report by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform showed that even by 2020, after the improvements are finalised in Cork city, insurers will still refuse to guarantee insurance cover. The almost unique lack of State involvement in insurance in this State has led to private companies being able to pick...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (15 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: 588. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the inquiries into planning matters in Counties Wicklow, Dublin, Cork, Donegal, Galway and Carlow have been completed; and when he will make the results available. [45207/15]

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2015)

Brian Stanley: ...on it on a number of occasions. Perhaps the Minister will take the opportunity tomorrow night to inform us about the progress of that inquiry. There are also inquiries under way into planning in Dublin, Cork, Carlow, Galway and Donegal. Again, we have been assured at various stages that reports on these will be brought forward. Given the fact that the House is likely to sit for only a...

Independent Planning Regulator: Motion [Private Members] (12 May 2015)

Brian Stanley: ...and — significant legacy issues regarding planning remain to be properly investigated; notes the failure of this Government to pursue, as promised, the reviews into planning in local authorities in Dublin city, Cork city, Cork county, Carlow, Meath and Galway as had been set in train under the previous Government by the then Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (10 Mar 2015)

Brian Stanley: ...a role. There is one in my county that is more than 45 miles long, from Coolacrease on the Offaly border to between Culahill and Johnstown in Kikenny, which is a huge area to cover. There is one Cork and there are some in Kerry which are 80 miles long.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Rural Communities: Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (24 Feb 2015)

Brian Stanley: ...stopped servicing all the towns in County Laois on the Dublin-Limerick route. Mountrath, Borris-in-Ossory and all the rest of them are no longer served. It long ago stopped servicing Abbeyleix on the Cork route. It has taken off Abbeyleix, Durrow, Cullahill and Johnstown. As the Minister of State knows, because she is at the other end of this route, it has now taken off Castlecomer,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill 2014: (Resumed) Discussion (27 Jan 2015)

Brian Stanley: ...might bring in a few hundred euro but it will spend €10,000 trying to police these sites. That balance has to be tipped. Reference was made to a reduction of 50% in development levies in Cork for non-residential developments. However, Cork is contending with deficits in its infrastructure. While we want to offer incentives for commercial development, we also want a degree of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (8 Jul 2014)

Brian Stanley: 812. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the clubs in Cork that have yet to draw down moneys from previous rounds of sports funding; the names of the clubs; and the amount each club is to draw down. [29348/14]

Mental Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Jul 2014)

Brian Stanley: ...Urban areas have the lowest rates of suicides, which suggests that living in rural isolation is a significant factor contributing to suicide. However, urban working class areas of Dublin city and Cork city have higher rates than those applying generally to those counties. Another issue of concern is the suicide rate among the Traveller population. Yesterday I had the privilege of...

Cemetery Management Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jun 2014)

Brian Stanley: ...as is found in some other countries where cemeteries become a private industry and funeral companies engage in often lurid attempts to attract business. I refer to a recent planning application in Cork by an individual seeking to open a private cemetery for the reason that the local graveyard was full and that local people were being forced to bury their deceased relatives a long distance...